RÓISÍN MURPHY

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.

We Are The Law bears little relation to ML, it's a completely new and great track. I'm a little burnt out on ML tbh.

new shit coming too:

“I wrote a really great track last week… it’s got fucking oboes on it,” she joyfully exclaims from her Ibiza bolthole, where she’s currently riding out a portion of the pandemic wave. “I said I wouldn’t do disco again, but I couldn’t turn it down. It’s just an amazing arrangement.”

...

“It’s gonna blow your mind,” she purrs. “It’s a whole other world. It’s fuckin’ tops down, LA… bouncing up and down on the cars. Hold tight!”

As well as this top-secret new piece, she’s also been working with production maestro, DJ Koze, on music that’s steadily approaching completion. “The people who’ve heard it are really interested in it, so I think it’s gonna be a bit of a smasher.”

I just want Ruby Blue reissued. Fleece your fans! Release it in 17 different colors. You can't make money on it when it's not for sale.

can I hear the track with the fucking oboes now

very much looking forward to the album (?) with dj koze that's on its way

she joyfully exclaims from her Ibiza bolthole

I did not see that word as bolthole on the first pass lol.

She did two tracks on the last Koze album, I assume she's just doing a couple of things again

I just want Ruby Blue reissued. Fleece your fans! Release it in 17 different colors. You can't make money on it when it's not for sale.

It's still "in print" digitally via Echo, who otherwise seem to only release physical material for Record Store Day, with BMGCAT instead of ECH cat #s, and then only of things that were on Warner, not Echo or any of their previous owners. Seems unlikely she'd have any sway in getting them to even press up 400 copies on "splatter vinyl" for RSD 2022.

i had to check but last year she mentioned that the dj koze material is her next album that he's producing all of, very exciting

Yeah, interview here:

https://www.thefader.com/2020/11/06/roisin-murphy-roisin-machine-interview-dj-koze-2020

ooh, that sounds great

yo i'm sure everyone is familiar with "the rumble" but just in case...

raw as hell fulton production over which ms. murphy delivers a deep-diver's manifesto / epic poem about love.

the video is just like peak "this is why i can't wait to go clubbing again"

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

I had no idea about the koze project. That has the potential to be album of the decade.

she's so wild about Koze in that interview that I hope Parrot doesn't read it, he'll feel like shit.

i loved the read on her ex-husband, pretty epic to say "i had to make my own music video because he told me i shouldn't, and by the way, here's his full name."

I hope Parrot doesn't read it, he'll feel like shit.

ha yes, that did read very New Relationship Energy. though she did release three-and-a-half hours of music by Parrot in the last year; I assume he's well aware that she she values him and his work.

yeah it doesn't read negative towards parrot or anything, just that working with koze more is really exciting her because his approach is so different to what she did last with parrot. there are plenty of interviews where she's filled with praise for parrot and sounds just as excited about working with him

Tell me something less.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xdm1E3n9Fc

Hello, is that Great Britain talking?

It is, is that Germany? Come in, Germany. Over.

I was going to post " I don't know why this is so funny" but I know exactly why it is. It's funny because it's the stupid way you talk to people you know so well that you don't have to explain how stupid you're being, straight off the bat. And that seems like an excellent way to start a creative collaboration.

It could be a terrible one too, don't get me wrong.

Surprise! Er....
(one for the ‘please can you fix, Glenn’ inbox on the Spotify thread)

https://open.spotify.com/album/0gix4jlOlBnii1ciLEF6yA?si=lyldbqGuSBOCXxNrZ9pnYQ

!!!

W H A T

that's actually the new squid album fyi

jealousy
jealousy
jealousy
jealousy
jealousy
jealousy
jealousy
jealousy
jealousy
jealousy
jealousy
jealousy
jealousy
jealousy
jealousy
jealousy
jealousy
jealousy
jealousy
jealousy
jealousy
jealousy
jealou-SY
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JEA-LOU-SY
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JEA-LOU-SY
JEA-LOU-SY
JEA-LOU-SY
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JEALOUSY
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JEALOUSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

um i think it's her right now on this feed

https://watch.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/livestream-1/backup/livestream1.html

yeah the schedule has her listed as performing with honey dijon

Available to listen to for the next 4 weeks (in the UK anyway):

https://t.co/5w6ESkGskK
Thank you @nemonemetaxas for the wonderful interview. My Journey in Sound is available now. Love how It ends where it all started, And Turquoise Car Crash The #forever 👍❣️ pic.twitter.com/ie34vUi7hp

— Róisín Murphy (@roisinmurphy) May 24, 2021

club mixes of Shellfish Mademoiselle and and Kingdom Of Ends out now

That Journey Into Sound interview is really well produced: the right amount of each song picked to give the flavour of the work and time, never overpowering the carefully-edited conversation. thanks for the link!

little lol at

After an eight-year hiatus (which nonetheless included several singles, vocal features, and side projects)

ie a full second-LPs-worth of B-sides from the album sessions, touring the world, ninety minutes of new singles, half an hour of guest collabs, and an entire Ramones-length LP/double-EP they just ignored. this is a pretty decent output for a working musician at all, let alone during a "hiatus" consisting of a private equity group taking over their 80-year-old label, gutting the staff and largely dissolving the business within months of their album release! (then losing two billion in two years and selling the remnants to an investment bank) (who then broke up everything left into parts and sold it to various alcohol marketers and electronics manufacturers and telcos)

i'm not sure what you mean, she really didn't put out that much between overpowered and hairless toys, only a few one-off singles, collaborations, and her italian covers EP?

that's about three hours of material (during a time when she apparently legally couldn't record an album)! plus international touring until EMI's new owners realised someone was signing off on tour support, fashion industry stuff, and the 2010 DJ/singing touring. it's a pretty industrious hiatus.

(plus it's six and a half years between the last EMI single and the first Hairless Toys one, not eight. she kept grafting imo)

Just came across this too:

Three years after making Overpowered, Murphy had a daughter, then three years later, a son. “People were all: ‘Pregnancy, this, pregnancy that.’ Then I had the babby. ‘Well, Jesus Christ, nobody told me about this bit!’” She made more money DJing in early motherhood than she did with Overpowered, which suited her then. “But it didn’t suit for too long. I had to get creative again.”

in a Fulton-era interview w/ Jude Rogers

i didn't think it amounted to that much material, not three hours anyway, was it mostly all the features etc. she did?

it's not like she disappeared or anything but it was certainly a relative lull in her career, especially compared to how prolific she's been since 2015

(40 minutes of Overpowered bonus tracks and b-sides, Mi Senti is half an hour, 9 headlining collabo and 4 solo singles (many longish - Simulation is 12 minutes!), and a fistful of non-single guest spots and odd tracks. Plus a live EP, but I was only counting "new" songs.)

It's definitely a less prominent period, but I was just eyebrowing at the BBC blurber calling it a "hiatus" when she was quite busy for a middle-aged pop singer at all, let alone one apparently urgently trying every option to release music while her record label was repeatedly collapsing on her, under different management, every ten months. Demon Lover (and all its remixes?) only came out on Myspace! Remember when Myspace was somewhere people put new music?!

Here's a rip of the Glastonbury performance, PA-ing two Parrot jams:

https://vimeo.com/531964255

and a new non-Crooked, non-Koze track on sale for a semi-charity album

Plus another radio show that talks through songs of her life.


club mixes of Shellfish Mademoiselle and and Kingdom Of Ends out now

If she puts off the Koze album and keeps working the Machines until clubs and touring exist again, we could end up with singles of every song on it - We Got Together and Game Changer are the only two left still to get non-album remixes.

Meanwhile Parrot snuck out a 12" with the original 2017 version of Narcissus and a new? 11-minute mix of Jealousy a month ago.

(Here she is in 2009 talking about trying new ways to release music after leaving EMI, and teasing Demon Lover -- which she was still promising last year to drop after Roisin Machine, as well as a "reggae project"... which in this interview about songwriting she reveals is a collab with Mad Professor. It took nearly nine years to get the Parrot album, she could still whip up an all-pop record with the other post-Overpowered orphans if only she were physically able to stop making other whole LPs with single producers.)

sic, that Vimeo link directs you to an animated short film

ha, it must have redirected after I watched the clip. fuck all autoplay forever!

https://vimeo.com/553928757

Mi Senti is soooo good, just hope it will get a repress as prices are crazy

Listening party for Crooked Machine tonight. Starts in 90 minutes

Crack out the Prosecco, turn up the system @LlSTENlNG_PARTY HERE!!! Press play at 8pm and I’ll be here with Alfie Nokes and his stories from the north! #CrookedMachine forever 🙌 pic.twitter.com/EmwYP4GzsO

— Róisín Murphy (@roisinmurphy) June 13, 2021

Ta for the tip - she threaded her tweets out of order, this is me trying to tidy it up... Parrot in quotes.