RÓISÍN MURPHY

"inside, there's nothing left
here's a pencil, go and draw your breath"

fkng amazing.

Had never heard that - thanks! (FYI discogs says two remixes by Crooked Man, but the original is written with and produced by a NYC guy)

I guess the press release doesn't say that anyone else didn't produce anything on Machine, but it does seem to intentionally imply that it's all Parrot.

here's the audio for the full-length Something More btw

she previously said before the album was announced that it was all produced by him?

Had never heard that - thanks!

Very happy to have introduced you to it but amazed as well, sic, wtf?!

I'm gen. amazed!

I'm delighted, tbh.

I have played that out in Glasgow and had a room of people singing every word of the track. That probably says a lot about Glasgow and also skews my perception of the general reception of the track.

she previously said before the album was announced that it was all produced by him?

The quote in Josh's revive a month ago still only implies it, now I look again. It's a pretty safe bet though!

We can treat that Amy Douglas jam as a sister song to the Roisin album

totally. best sister.

sic, also worth checking out "Walls (Subsidence version)" by crooked man w/ Amy Douglas. I won't embed it, I don't want to turn this into an Amy Douglas thread.

https://crooked-man.bandcamp.com/track/walls-subsidence-version

it's all Parrot

Damn, all this Amy Douglas stuff on Spotify is HOT!!!

Love “Never Saw It Coming”, but prefer the Crooked Man Remix to the Dub.

Amy on writing for Roisin, last October:

I’m starting to write songs for Róisín Murphy. That’s another biggie. I have a very deep and meaningful relationship with Ms. Murphy. Whenever I hear myself say that, I get a lump in my throat because I can’t even really believe that I’m saying it. She and I are linked, and that’s forever, and yeah, so I’m starting to write songs for her upcoming ventures, some of which will be duets, some of which will be solo stuff. We’re not even sure what it is.

Basically, my task was to go home and fuckin’ write songs… mother fucker. If she had told me to get on all fours and bark like a dog for 37 hours, I probably would have been grateful to do so.

Turns out they met when Douglas was in London to record for a duo project she has coming up with Joe Goddard. Roisin invited her to a seminar Weatherall was holding - Amy credits Weatherall with breaking Never Saw It Coming - and they went out on the lash afterward.

I've always known it's pronounced Ro-sheen but that doesn't stop my stupid brain from reading it as Roy-sin every single time xps

― chonky floof (groovypanda), Thursday, July 30, 2020 9:17 PM (three days ago)

I think the point is it's actually rosh-in

― or something, Thursday, July 30, 2020 9:20 PM (three days ago)

Nah, the fada over the 'ó' and 'í' generally indicates a long vowel, so it is indeed Row-Sheen. Up north, we pronounce it Rosh-sheen, but that wouldn't be the case in Leinster (where Ms. Murphy is from).

Hiya Sue! Fresh mix alert!!! Tune into @BBC6Music for my #desertislanddisco MIX and a little chat with @laurenlaverne SOON!!! 🖤🖤🖤 pic.twitter.com/9K7yxbpbNR

— Róisín Murphy (@roisinmurphy) September 11, 2020

haha! she'd be so funny to hang about with.

looks like the album got pushed back a week at some point?

very interesting tidbit from recent interviews is she's already working on a new album that's being produced by dj koze

yes - album was pushed back to october 2 due to "processing delays". one more week to go!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdchN81AkrA

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/19/roisin-murphy-in-my-pregnancy-i-was-fed-like-a-goose-being-fattened-up

That "Something More" vid is majestic, and I don't even care about the song that much

I think the song itself is great, it's just let down by dreary production. A track that sounds like it couldn't even be bothered getting out of bed.

Quietus interview, including the nugget that one song on Roisin Machine was inspired by discovering a K-Punk review of Moloko last year.

Please don’t stop dancing – that’s another part of my manifesto. I dance round the park and in my house. Scientists know for a fact it’s the best cardiovascular activity for your brain. It burns pathways, it’s maths and motion and absurdity and poetry. It’s magic stuff. I’ve never stopped dancing… and the record is like going back to that girl in the flat in Stockport, freaking out to Biting Tongues, rolling around on my orange sofa.

from the guardian interview - "the horror of andouillette"

whatever, I actually like this dish

new album unsurprisingly quite good but none of the previously unreleased tracks are among the best on it

agree although I love “game changer” with its callbacks to “murphy’s law” and rhythm that seems part “the dreaming” and part...something from ruby blue, maybe.

the continuous mix nature of it all means that even some of the singles that I’ve been rinsing for years feel fresh

also, kudos to those brave enough to stomach andouilette

Narcissus with the RTE concert orchestra:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj61gk8ToLQ

just put on "Murphy's Law" on Sp*t*fy and the original 8-minute track has an "- Extended Mix" added to it when it wasn't there before (in addition to the ~4-minute edit), so my guess is the length of the album version (and the other album tracks) are gonna be somewhere in between those running times

Looking forward to hearing the continuous mix (!!) but on this: the digital version apparently comes with previously-released long versions of the six singles as bonus tracks: the Original Mix-es of Simulation, Incapable and Murphy's Law, the Extended Mix of Murphy's Law, the Disco Mix of Jealousy, and the 2019 re-recording or edit or w/e of Narcissus - all now labelled "Extended Mix"

And it's glorious.

Wow, I put this on this morning when it came on my release radar, and several hours later, I've listened to it 3 or 4 times in a row, and I've basically forgotten that any other music even exists?!?!?

today is a good day

this rules (obviously)

sure seems like the best album ever

personally i'm ready to proclaim this the godlike masterpiece that it is

right there with you, Brad!

if the other four tracks are as good as the six we've already heard this will surely be her best album?

― ufo, Friday, July 31, 2020 3:41 PM (two months ago)

WELP

holy shit the propulsive disco string arrangement on the album version of Narcissus

HOLY shit at the album version of Jealousy

i don't think this is going to end up replacing hairless toys as my favourite of her solo albums but it still really rules

also the album version of "jealousy" definitely loses a lot by only being 4 minutes and just fading out

we already have plenty of long versions of it, and the album version is so exciting, it's a joyous climax that the album has built up to 💃💃

new to me, B-sides from the Overpowered era:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CEgNB8TZ64

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

this is a disappointment for me tbh. i think i got very attached to a few of the remixes (the cosmodelica remix of murphy's law is stunning, incredible piano lines everywhere) and the album versions are all letting me down.

Her best album since Overpowered, despite a couple okay things.

i'm really baffled about the version of 'incapable' on here when the 'extended edit' is clearly superior. it's not even that much longer (:30 or so), it just gets the timing right on introducing the elegaic chords in the bridge and is generally more tightly structured.

'we got together' is .. bad imo.

sorry don't mean to shit up this thread, maybe it will grow on me :|

I imagine the shorter edit of “Incapable” being a matter of vinyl formatting, but I really wouldn’t know

oh i hadn't noticed the way the album version of "incapable" has those synths come in during the chorus instead of the bridge, really weird

i'm not exactly sure which "extended edit" you mean though, the original "edit" was 3:30 which is actually shorter than the album version, but it works better

the biggest problem i have with the short "jealousy" is the fade-out because it really needs the definitive ending of the original to close out the album properly when it's such an explosion of energy