RÓISÍN MURPHY

New track out and album announced:

http://pitchfork.com/news/58494-roisin-murphy-announces-hairless-toys-lp-shares-gone-fishing/

― daavid, Monday, February 16, 2015 4:10 PM (1 hour ago)

http://i.imgur.com/ym6Fsxp.jpg

01 Gone Fishing
02 Evil Eyes
03 Exploitation
04 Uninvited Guest
05 Exile
06 House of Glass
07 Hairless Toys (Gotta Hurt)
08 Unputdownable

Eight songs seems like not a lot after such a long wait, but maybe (I hope?) they're eight REALLY GOOD songs. "Gone Fishing" portends good things imo.

It's getting better with every listen. It may be my favorite song of the year so far.

It really is so good.

I especially love the pitch-shifting 'strings'

Just listened to it three times in a row, agree with daavid it's probably the best thing I've heard so far this year.

the songs are long - "Exploitation" cracks nine minutes acc to itunes

Anyway this song is great!

Going Fishing travels so many places in six minutes. I typically have "long-song ADD" but I sort of trust her to not let me down in this regard.

I like that it works out she's spent one year per song on this new album. Judging by Gone Fishing this album is going to be worth the wait.

http://www.factmag.com/2015/02/23/roisin-murphy-release-jealousy-12-crosstown-rebels/

"Ahead of Hairless Toys, her first solo album in eight years, Róisín Murphy has recorded a club-focused 12″ for Damian Lazarus’ Crosstown Rebels label."

There's not really much to the "house mix," a youtube of which is embedded at that link, but I'm quite interested in hearing the "disco mix".

somehow only just heard "jealousy" - it's amazing, both mixes, actually much more so than "gone fishing" which underwhelmed a bit in the end

And here's Exploitation... http://pitchfork.com/news/58951-roisin-murphy-shares-exploitation/

Don't know if it's amazing or insane. Or both.

Murphy occupies a unique position, the gay diva with a library, reclining before floor-to-ceiling shelves in interviews. Shes a nutter but she's our nutter.

I've probably said that about the Unabomber on other forums.

I'm a softer being.

(comma, after momentary sobriety), now.

I want to like the disco mix of "Jealousy" but hearing the sampled guitar from Ahzz's "New York's Moving" without the synths is killing me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud2epRXRFmU

The album is out there now. It's really beautiful.

oooh yes!

I'm still absorbing it but there are definitely a bunch of OMFG moments

Video for "Exploitation"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjSwFsPCeJ4#t=143

that video makes me want a boiled egg

album version is too long though (maybe)

this bangs and is weird

i.e. in character

I can't unsee Dolores O'Riordan.

i really don't know what i think of the album yet but it feels like she's tiptoeing around the concept somewhat. which she should, to be fair, because it's a minefield, but it ends up so careful. some very impressive moments w/r/t structure, arrangements etc but she never goes for it at any point? when "jealousy" comes on afterwards it feels a billion times more alive.

think the restraint contributes to the anxiety and tension kinda running unbrokenly through the whole record

"jealousy" is great obv but a different thing

re: the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLoyu9PcmBc

think the restraint contributes to the anxiety and tension kinda running unbrokenly through the whole record

i think it comes at the expense of any real emotional pull tbh. it's a very tasteful and accomplished concept album but it feels like RM knew that the entire thing had to be handled with care - straight white woman makes album explicitly and entirely about gay black men's experiences, how could it possibly go wrong - and it ended up a touch too sensitive, maybe. idk, i'm still getting to grips with it but i'm not exactly drawn to put it on much, and when i do i find myself appreciating it on a head level way more than on a heart level.

haven't yet seen an interview with her, would have pitched but it's not as if i know a huge amount about the paris is burning era either, lol

I was about to ask: where are you getting the info about the album? I'd love to read it.

the initial press bumpf i presume, not any in-depth feature

yeah the press release she wrote:

This song was written after I watched the documentary film Paris Is Burning, having read an article which referenced it in a discussion about House music's origins in black, gay culture. I was deeply moved by this film. 'I had to run this far from home' - it's about the outcasts who could never fit into mainstream society and how they created a safe place in the drag 'Ball' scene of New York in the ‘80s. 'Will we live on? The children of La Beija' refers to the 'house' of Pepper La Beija, who was one of the most notable figures on the scene, Pepper is also quoted in Malcolm McLaren's song on the same subject 'Deep In Vogue'. The culture was a flamboyant reaction to persecution and disillusionment, the imagination and bravery of these kids is simply awe-inspiring. I envisioned 'Gone Fishing' almost as a song from a Broadway musical version of this story. The making of one's own world, a safer world and the creation of a new, better family in music or youth culture is a theme I touch upon elsewhere on my album Hairless Toys.

straight white woman makes album explicitly and entirely about gay black men's experiences

afaict this only applies to "gone fishing"

i haven't studied the lyrics or anything but she seems to return to those themes pretty consistently throughout

hm well neither have i tbh

also it feels very weird at a time when the ballroom scene seems so healthy for RM to reference it so explicitly as an influence but not go anywhere near it sonically

Murphy's seems to have been adopted by the transgenderqueer (etc., I don't keep up) community for a while.

's (Video is one of several unofficial fan videos for "Simulation" featuring trangender peeps - parts might be unsafe for some workplaces)

i feel like the new record is kind of a sister (or cousin) to last year's mr twin sister album

Hmm, hadn't thought about that, but makes sense on the surface.

I'm definitely a fan of the straightforwardness of Overpowered. This one takes more dedication to love, like Ruby Blue did imo.

been listening to this a lot lately and came across a track-by-track where she basically confirms that only "gone fishing" is about balling, the rest is about her strange interior life. was surprised to find out "exploitation" is literally about sex but in retrospect it's obvious

anyway this is still one of my favorite records of the year, though it makes more sense as a follow up to ruby blue than overpowered. "unputdownable" prob one of my favorite love songs of all time at this point

i waited so long for a new RM album but now there is one i couldn't care less, it's weird.

I played it a lot in late May but haven't returned to it. Too quiet and the melodies are skimpy.

gonna give it my first shot in weeks b/c Brad.

yeah really liking unputdownable, thanks Brad. I think i was put off by the single with the queazy speeding-slowing thing going on. hated that.

Too quiet and the melodies are skimpy.

sympathetic to this but i think i like it bc of how pared down and nervously quiet it is

also i'm a real sucker for the jazzy guitar runs in "exploitation" and "house of glass"

loving the EPs released this year - hope she does a full length soon or a LP with Fulton, they have serious chemistry

based on her recent interviews that doesn't seem to be a space she's right now

*space she's in

I mean we're basically getting a full album's worth of material from her this year

mix six six six

http://www.factmag.com/2018/08/13/roisin-murphy-fact-mix-moloko/

While I'm not terribly familiar with the Fulton collaboration EPs, I believe that's a new Murphy/Fulton track at 37:40.

Sorry, that's just Jackie Moore - "This Time Baby" (1979), not listed in the track listing.

Sadly shows how shallow my disco knowledge is, despite decades of interest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3rRS9OBSGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRwXPxtrfsc

especially liking Can't Hang On but these are both great

Both have huge instant appeal.

The two new ones sound a lot looser (as in: studio jams) than the others so far, esp. 'The Rumble'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O5EJJNw9zY

these songs are all so fucking good

the 51 minutes of music róisín put out this year is my album of the year

hell yeah, all her releases this year have been fire

Add the 2 tracks from the DJ Koze album and you have a lovely full hour of new stuff.

Crooked Man feat. Róisín Murphy - Incapable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwtI8G_7ZrA

Melting....

PREMENSTRUAL COPY
NOT FOR MALES

^^ this is no longer vinyl only: https://open.spotify.com/album/5a9qnrBPEtdYCmO8x6L0Jp

https://youtu.be/H02BPY7vEms

new single

oh lol that's what was linked before whoops

great another magnificent song

That's more like it.

I even bought it on iTunes to help her out.

Like this the most of her recent spate of singles.

reeeeeeemix

reeeeeeeeeeeeeeemix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoxLXfgno-w

this remix is so good

That's more like it.

I even bought it on iTunes to help her out.

― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

It's a very nice initiative, Alfred, but I'm pretty sure that RM is living a pretty good life off the back of the excellent music she's been making. I totally understand where you're coming from though and always bandcamp the things I love but I'd be surprised if RM needs help in this regard.

fwiw, I always bandcamp the things I play out unless I can't find them to buy.

oh, but yes, I forgot the point of my post! You should bandcamp it rather than itunes it!

I appreciate the unnecessary rebuke, jed. Thanks!

sorry for the repetition, i'm drunk.

Thanks, Alf! x

:-/

C'mere. Let's dance to "Incapable."

haha. I just read back what I wrote. what can I say ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i accept.

I'm pretty sure that RM is living a pretty good life

I'd assumed the "Overpowered" video wasn't entirely in jest, and that at peak marketability.

dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8db9QuagHE

discofied re-recording of her 12-minute cassette-only track on https://livesthroughmagic.bandcamp.com/album/lives-through-magic - but there's a great stirmonster edit to listen to if you click through, plus a flamgoon/caribou collabo

ah here's the original for reference!

unjustifiably unappreciated Roisin content from years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0yOJ7QnqxI

(i think it needs to be slower, I play it pitched down)

I think it needs to be faster but that's very much in character for me

tried it at youtube ‘s 75% and I can see a -6 being effective on the floor

what a jam