RÓISÍN MURPHY

I generally find those Tims Listening Parties irritating (they have a habit of taking over one's timeline) but these are wonderful insights into an amazing album.

This stuff seems to be getting a lot of traction in non-music-nerd settings, at least in my neighbourhood? Twice in the past few days, I've had to go by ~trouble spots for environmental sound~ (a builders' site on my road where they serenade the whole street with their music choices; an incredibly loud pumping exercise class that meets on top of the Common) and kind of bracing myself for the sensory onslaught and how bad it is going to be...

...and both spaces have beeen playing Roisin Murphy tracks the last times I have walked by? Which has been a really pleasant surprise when it's turned into music?

I've only gotten to the end of this once because I keep playing the first three tracks over and over

Hairless Toys finally clicked for me today. It was always my least favorite of her albums but today it sounds really damn good

Haven't followed Murphy closely but Narcissus > Jealousy bowled me over

I see now Narcissus was a 2019 single and that they pushed the strings to the intro (to get this onto dancefloors?). Brilliant track.

yes. i managed to play narcissus at the right moment in a set and it was all hands in the air.

An earlier version was out in 2017!

🎄Christmas has come early🎄
Murphy’s Law rules today @BBC6Music surrender to the cheeky bum wiggling wit and disco decadence! 💜 it ...
... join @laurenlaverne @maryannehobbs @shaunwkeaveny @steve_lamacq to hear more ... #sleighhomeravesafe https://t.co/Y7yiZVWfvw

— Nemone (@nemonemetaxas) December 1, 2020

New Crooked Man remix of Jealousy.

Mix for Mary Ann Hobbs yesterday:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000q8x6

She's also "taking over" 6Music on Tuesday

😍

Are you ready to dance?

💚 Róisín Murphy's giving you a green light to lose yourself on Tuesday morning.

Listen live or rewind for 30 days on @BBCSounds https://t.co/C8pHibQcTM pic.twitter.com/qAHXu1uauB

— BBC Radio 6 Music (@BBC6Music) December 21, 2020

i'm increasingly of the opinion that the maurice fulton collabs are easily the best things she's done and that i want to like her 2020 more than i actually do (sorry to be that guy itt).

that's where I'm at too. I love her as a popstar personality but I wish she'd make another "Plaything" or "Let Me Know"

There's bunch of extra stuff on the iSoundser in addition to today's Róisín "takeover" broadcast.

Her main two-and-a-half-hour radio DJ set, including a 2020 Ewan Pearson mix of Happy Mondays' Hallelujah, a new Crooked Man joint and an unreleased mix of Jealousy:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qkbx

A 1-hour Hot Chip DJ mix commissioned by Roisin:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qzj5

and from the archives, all an hour long:

Róisín live in March 2020:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qhkw

Her doing an hour of radio in Iggy Pop's slot last year:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qvks

Talking through musical milestones in her life*, recorded in 2016:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06dclbz

And a retrospective made up of old interviews & records:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qhkq

*She also picked Weatherall's 2011 version of this to be repeated over the air today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00z7hx0

I wonder how cool Murphy's golden dove badge was before Lady Gaga ripped it off?

There was a big compare/contrast blog post circa 2009, showing various Roisin fits and later Gaga ones.

Have just realised the track I was planning on voting for in the poll wasn't even nominated 🤦‍♂️

Just vote for Murphy's Law then 👍

that's what i did when i had the same realization

i'm trying to find out who played the piano on the cosmodelica remix of murphy's law.

i'm just finding out that cosmodelica is one colleen murphy, who has what looks like a high-profile radio show. i wonder if she played it. anyone know?

almost certainly Darren Morris

THANK YOU!!!

now that looks like an interesting body of work...

Assuming that's the same Colleen Murphy who worked regularly with David Mancuso? xps

Yep!

jealousy
jealousy
jealousy
jealousy
JEALOUSY
JEALOUSY
JEALOUSY
JEA-LOU-SEEEEEEE

Never made that connection between Cosmo and Cosmodelica!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o9esb6yMwc

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

ok now i want a roisin album that has spanish guitar everywhere

these are really great acoustic versions

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/roisin-murphy-announces-new-album-crooked-machine-shares-assimilation/

remix album crooked machine out in a few weeks. "assimilation" sounds pretty good!

i'm ready

nice

i hope one of these is an extended version of 'shellfish mademoiselle'

Holy shit, that Simulation redo is incredible!

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

God bless her

remix album crooked machine out in a few weeks.

dangit now I have to retitle my compilation of the 20-50 minutes per single of crooked mixes

(nb Crooked Man topped 50min of remixes on his own 2016 single Happiness, including a 14-minute "24-inch" version that plays like a classic disco arrangement with natural builds and peaks)


BTW there was a third part to those "live, up a tree in Ibiza" videos, uploaded a week later:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlfdU-jslm4

oh man, so good

i hope one of these is an extended version of 'shellfish mademoiselle'

Kingdom of Machines - KINGDOM OF ENDS
Echo Returns - NARCISSUS
Capable Rhythm - INCAPABLE
Assimilation - SIMULATION
Crooken Machine - ??
Less is More - SOMETHING MORE
Name Changer - GAME CHANGER
We are the Law - MURPHY'S LAW
Hardcore Jealousy - JEALOUSY

"Crooken Machine" is actually titled "Crooken Madame" so that would be SHELLFISH MADEMOISELLE

so, these are all brand new, not previous mixes/versions?

ta josh!

none of these have the same names as previously-released mixes, and it's very on-brand for Parrot to remix the entire album again.

Narcissus with the RTE concert orchestra

She managed another couple of live TV appearances between lockdowns last year too.

Murphy's Law on the Graham Norton Show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PYHxliMtWM

Incapable with the Rhythm & Blues Orchestra on Jools Holland's Hootenanny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87XX0qI5tew

and a cover of Let's Dance, also with the big band and Jools:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjEveAgI6MY

plus an acoustic session / interview for Esquire, with the same guitarist as her at-home acoustic videos, doing the three Roisin Machine songs they did amongst those. which we didn't clock itt!:

Incapable
Murphy's Law
Something More
Golden Era / Familar Feeling
The Time Is Now

i like "assimilation" more than "simulation"! excited for this

same!

Crooked Machine youtube playlist here.

i was kinda underwhelmed by the album after how much i liked "assimilation". certainly not bad or anything just not anything to be excited by either

thanks to the whole st. vincent stuff I had a dream I did an absolutely awful interview with her in which I screwed up to an extent that there was open hostility

Xpost: ditto “assimilation” was even better than the album version but the rest of the remixes leave me lukewarm. I still think it’s a great remix album but I wouldn’t play it over the original.

Kingdom of Machines works in a very different way to KoE. I'd say it's at least as good.