Damn, all this Amy Douglas stuff on Spotify is HOT!!!
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 1 August 2020 04:17 (three years ago) link
Love “Never Saw It Coming”, but prefer the Crooked Man Remix to the Dub.
― Tim F, Saturday, 1 August 2020 04:25 (three years ago) link
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.
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.
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Saturday, 1 August 2020 09:34 (three years ago) link
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)
― 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).
― Number None, Sunday, 2 August 2020 10:19 (three years ago) link
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
― groovypanda, Friday, 11 September 2020 07:45 (three years ago) link
haha! she'd be so funny to hang about with.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Friday, 11 September 2020 11:53 (three years ago) link
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
― ufo, Thursday, 24 September 2020 10:18 (three years ago) link
yes - album was pushed back to october 2 due to "processing delays". one more week to go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdchN81AkrA
― monotony, Friday, 25 September 2020 08:20 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/19/roisin-murphy-in-my-pregnancy-i-was-fed-like-a-goose-being-fattened-up
― djh, Friday, 25 September 2020 09:25 (three years ago) link
That "Something More" vid is majestic, and I don't even care about the song that much
― timber euros (seandalai), Saturday, 26 September 2020 01:45 (three years ago) link
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.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Saturday, 26 September 2020 12:17 (three years ago) link
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.
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Thursday, 1 October 2020 08:45 (three years ago) link
from the guardian interview - "the horror of andouillette"
whatever, I actually like this dish
― octobeard, Thursday, 1 October 2020 08:47 (three years ago) link
new album unsurprisingly quite good but none of the previously unreleased tracks are among the best on it
― ufo, Friday, 2 October 2020 04:23 (three years ago) link
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
― monotony, Friday, 2 October 2020 04:37 (three years ago) link
also, kudos to those brave enough to stomach andouilette
Narcissus with the RTE concert orchestra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj61gk8ToLQ
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Friday, 2 October 2020 06:21 (three years ago) link
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"
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Friday, 2 October 2020 07:00 (three years ago) link
And it's glorious.
― octobeard, Friday, 2 October 2020 07:03 (three years ago) link
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?!?!?
― Branwell with an N, Friday, 2 October 2020 13:52 (three years ago) link
today is a good day
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 2 October 2020 14:04 (three years ago) link
this rules (obviously)
― the typo doer (Simon H.), Friday, 2 October 2020 14:25 (three years ago) link
sure seems like the best album ever
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 2 October 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
personally i'm ready to proclaim this the godlike masterpiece that it is
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 2 October 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
right there with you, Brad!
― winters (josh), Friday, 2 October 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
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
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Friday, 2 October 2020 21:28 (three years ago) link
holy shit the propulsive disco string arrangement on the album version of Narcissus
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Friday, 2 October 2020 21:32 (three years ago) link
HOLY shit at the album version of Jealousy
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Friday, 2 October 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
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
― ufo, Saturday, 3 October 2020 02:54 (three years ago) link
also the album version of "jealousy" definitely loses a lot by only being 4 minutes and just fading out
― ufo, Saturday, 3 October 2020 03:13 (three years ago) link
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 💃💃
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Saturday, 3 October 2020 04:22 (three years ago) link
new to me, B-sides from the Overpowered era:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CEgNB8TZ64
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVCARpAsG-g
― timber euros (seandalai), Sunday, 4 October 2020 18:04 (three years ago) link
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.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Sunday, 4 October 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
Her best album since Overpowered, despite a couple okay things.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 4 October 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
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 :|
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Sunday, 4 October 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link
I imagine the shorter edit of “Incapable” being a matter of vinyl formatting, but I really wouldn’t know
― winters (josh), Sunday, 4 October 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
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
― ufo, Monday, 5 October 2020 00:06 (three years ago) link
Discogs user notes "Incapable and Game Changer are both slightly longer than their CD and digital counterparts, as they fade out cleanly instead of segueing into the next track."
Game Changer feels a little like a throwback to Ruby Blue imo, with the vocal melody in the verse being sketched in the margins, and the syncopate-y handclap.
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Monday, 5 October 2020 02:06 (three years ago) link
We Got Together is one of my favourite tracks on this, like the massive WHOMP! of the bass just does something to my lizard brain.
But, y'know, hey, people like different things in music.
― Branwell with an N, Monday, 5 October 2020 09:12 (three years ago) link
Kingdom of Ends and We Got Together both make the album better IMO simply by virtue of mixing things up a bit.
― Jeff W, Monday, 5 October 2020 09:43 (three years ago) link
“kingdom of ends” is one of her very best songs imo
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 5 October 2020 11:38 (three years ago) link
I really like Jessie Ware so I don't say this to denigrate but this is better. Jessie is only like 95% fabulous whereas Roisin is like 120%
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Monday, 5 October 2020 13:26 (three years ago) link
different flavors of fabulousness imo
― the typo doer (Simon H.), Monday, 5 October 2020 13:51 (three years ago) link
Roisin Murphy is more of a person or personage while Jessie Ware strives for and achieves disco-era anonymity.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 October 2020 13:57 (three years ago) link
the continuous mix nature of this record is what sends it over for me. this is why i can't really knock the album edit of "incapable" (not that i'm a good enough listener to really distinguish how it's different from the single edit? which i don't remember if i've even heard) bc the focus of the album is not about songs working in isolation but songs working on each other
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 5 October 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link
sorry if this is rockist of me
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 5 October 2020 15:02 (three years ago) link
the arrangement is prob altered bc at the point where "incapable" lands in the tracklisting you're not exactly in the mood for a song to build up gradually, just start rockin' those synths if you got em
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 5 October 2020 15:07 (three years ago) link
First 3 songs here represent her best work since Overpowered imo
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 5 October 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
RA Exchange 527: Roisin Murphyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEXEk7QVba4
― davey, Monday, 5 October 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link
haven't seen brad in the RYM shoutbox calling this AOTY yet. therefore unsure whether to give it a listen
― Chip-vill-A (imago), Monday, 5 October 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link