Róisín Murphy-Overpowered

i thought it was 'your data my data' in a 'let's call the whole thing off' vein

omg is roisin murphy a milf?

i think the video is crap really altho her outfit is superb.

so when is the album out?

What? That video
is not crap by any means;
it is anti-crap

i love this song, i also heard "your data, my data"

october for the album

hooray!

good track.

is she going to be working with Herbert on the new record?

I like how the video seems like it's going to be some awful 'I'm just a real girl' statement - but then ends up being the opposite.

an 'I'm just a real girl who never takes off this awesome outfit' statement

I saw it as a final refusal to give up the image (after flirting with doing that), in the end unsullied by the normal/drab setting.

yeah but y'know, so what. i'd rather the video just be a more literal interpretation of the song again these days. also the 'music goes quieter when they go into a different room' thing is kinda played out.

I'm intrigued about the album, it's a nice track and I've always liked her voice.

is this one of the Richard X songs?

it's produced by one of Bugz in the attic.

obv, it's clearly "your data, my d

ata".

huh?
data

the beats are a bit sluggish, actually, but i do like the acid line.

the beat is weird, you really notice the snare sounding ever so slightly premature every half a bar.

Towering.

"exact doesn't matter - a matter of fact"

Plus she's always been hot...

the beat is weird, you really notice the snare sounding ever so slightly premature every half a bar.

i thought it was late but yeah.

Plus she's always been hot...

I think so too! Some of my friends tease me for it, though.

why? how could someone think she's not attractive?

whilst it is 'your data my data', i guess I was looking for a bit of Wicklow accent in there.
Oh and Groove Armada are responsible for alot of the new work. Something to look forward to...
though October?! Really? That's two months between it and the first single

Róisín Murphy - Overpowered (Radio Edit)

i kind of hate the drums

the drums sound weird and crap in that rip though. god i fucking hate low-quality mp3s, why do people do them? still?

i don't think i've actually heard a decent quality version of this song which is REALLY ANNOYING.

touring!

Apparently it is You dated my daughter. Which I understood as some wacky "Lolita" thing. But it also fits with line "the chromosones match." Still a bit confused as to the actual message of the song, not that it really matters though. Maybe some sort of: "Well, we can use our branes but the chemicals always take over and science will never really be able to catch up." Something like that. I think it's an ace song. The remixes on the ep are bit meh though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlFjf1pWk2c

I quite like the video. Sure, it's not very deep, but I think she's aware of herself/her image and jokes about it all.

Apparently it is You dated my daughter.

it so is not!

doesn't sound like it.

i'm sure she'd return to that, in the lyrics, if that's what she meant. it would have some effect on the basic story she's telling(?)

"mamaaaa, just kill the haaaaam"

it's on all the lyrics websites as "dating my daughter". is it a snowball effect where one site puts it up first and then all the others just copy that? even if that is the case i'm baffled as to how someone could hear it as that in the first place.

It's fremme neppa my daughter.

is it a snowball effect where one site puts it up first and then all the others just copy that?

yeah v probably -- i've noticed this consistency with other misprints.

he never her daughter

It really does sound nothing like "your dating my daughter". I suppose if she had suddenly developed a weird American accent just for the word "daughter", and had some weird speech defect that meant she couldn't pronounce the the syllable "ing" it might be possible, but I have looked into it and this is not the case.

you're dating my daughter
my sister
my daughter
my sister

it's on all the lyrics websites as "dating my daughter". is it a snowball effect where one site puts it up first and then all the others just copy that? even if that is the case i'm baffled as to how someone could hear it as that in the first place.

True. At first I heard the data line too but after googling it, now I can only hear the daughter line. :-(

But even if you accepted a bizarre pronunciation of "daughter", it would still only say "your data my daughter". There is no way you can hear it as "dating" even if you try!

Well, English is my 5487th language.

Aaaaaaaaaanyway, after being initially underwhelmed by this, it is slowly growing into one of my singles of the year. Fits well with the dark-italo stuff that's coming out lately. I hope the album is in that vein too.

When is the album coming out anyway? And what dark-italo stuff would you recommend (alongside this ep)?

The whole 'After Dark' compilation that got featured on Pitchfork a few weeks ago is really really great

great track. love the video too. really psyched for this record.

think this ended up charting at about #132

i think it's "you're dating my data".

like adding the year of release to ID3 tag info

i do that.

but it kind of makes sense, her data is her "dna data" or something?

amazing artwork... the next single & the album art:

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/4275/letmeknowrdc3.jpg

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/6615/rmcafesu8.jpg

DIDN'T GLAST LONG

was that a real headline?

everything in that photo is real

I bet the Coca Cola logo will be gone by the time this becomes an album cover.

you could do a good 'spot the difference' contest with it

This album is great. Really hits the sharp beat shiny spot, innit.

Promos already? I thought it wasn't out until - oh wait, beginning October, wasn't it?

Yeah, 8th Oct I think.

A ruthlessly sealed promo with dark DO NOT RIP THIS CD warnings arrived late last week.

Isn't this album crying out for a one word review: "Overrated" ?

not that I have heard it or anything, it just seems cosmically appropriate.

I'm definitely excited about this.

The new single's clip on myspace certainly has me anticpating, I like the Groove Armada guy's remix of it too, christ.

lol@ Geneva's Batie festival naively asking me to stream her gig online in 10 days w/out having negotiated any rights. Like I'm gonna set anything up just to have to take it down 15 minutes prior to the concert.

I have only one question: do pubs usually have chimneys inside or is it part of her headdress?

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/6615/rmcafesu8.jpg

that is not a pub

ok, but I the only other word I could think of was "diner" and that felt too american

KAFF

oh! thanks. ("café" is the word we use for pub in dutch, which is probably why I didn't think of that)

what is Dutch for 'greasy spoon'?

In Dutch? 'snack bar' :-)

i meant literally!

Oh. "vette lepel" or "vettige lepel"

the new single sounds more like Sophie E-B, in the good way.

i wasn't knocked out by 'overpowered', music-wise.

album has some serious highs and lows. on balance i think herbert's absence is pretty obvious.

Hmm she canceled over here at the last minute, something about the bass player cutting his finger off (ouch).

LET ME KNOW!!!!!

^That's enthusiasm!

http://kscakes.com.nyud.net:8080/LolCats/Uploads/Saved/the-snozzberries-taste-like-snozzberries.jpg

I totally hear "you're datin' my daughta"

what's the album called again?

Overpowered

So, definitely uneven, but I'm thinking this could be commercially successful. There's a Timbaland rip-off, which turns out quite gorgeous.

you dont say...is this actually out next week?

FOOTPRINTS. OH MAN...

Could it be that the album should be alot, lot, lot longer? Her free mp3, modern timing, is as good as anything off the new album, and Sweet Nothings is pretty awesomely wholesome.
Dear Miami, however, is simply fantastic. Conveniently topical

omg is roisin murphy a milf?

-- strongohulkington, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:00 (3 months ago) Bookmark Link

^^^OTM

I am so Pavlovian... I nearly posted the exact same thing I had posted two months ago. wow.

Yeah, dear Miami is pretty fucking fantastic.

OTM. Primitive is pretty good too.

While I haven't got the album yet to check the lyrics (please, god, let there be lyrics in the booklet, WHY DO PEOPLE IGNORE THIS SIMPLE NECESSITY) I'm pretty sure it's "your date on my data."

stop the madness!

as the person most likely responsible for any reference to 'you're datin' my daughter', I really do think it is 'your dayta my dahta' (sic).
Though, when her Dublin date comes around, I will surely have my ears pricked.

Pretty dull do over in Pitchfork. Accurate I suppose but still. I hate how many places I've read how she's given up making exciting challenging music. And apparently Ruby Blue was a big hit in Australia. Isn't that how Blondie got started?

Roísín Murphy
Overpowered
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Roísín Murphy casts a wide net: Avant-pop aesthetes fell for Moloko's screwball trip-hop; Ibizan disco bunnies made "Sing It Back" a pop anthem; nightcrawlers found a postergirl in the booze-hound sleeve of Statues; style-mag fantasists never tire of her covers. Even Sky Sports succumbed, making "The Time Is Now" the unofficial anthem of 21st century soccer.

So why isn't she a huge star? It's a question that has likely been taxing the minds of EMI, who, to their credit, have taken a punt on Murphy after her 2005 solo debut tanked. Recorded with tech-jazz savant Matthew Herbert, Ruby Blue was a brilliantly inventive collection of cut-up pop that confounded her label and failed to find an audience. According to her new bosses, Murphy has got all that self-indulgence out of her system, and is now stepping up to the plate to make a "career record." She has the potential, they claim, to be a kind of beloved entertainer on the level of another investment of theirs, Robbie Williams.

In truth, Murphy is closer in spirit to the late Associates singer Billy Mackenzie, another maverick celtic diva torn between the arthouse, the punk club, and the disco. Mackenzie could never quite knuckle down to the career frequently promised him; one suspects Murphy won't fare any better. Her position is perfectly illustrated in Scott King's artwork for the album and singles, setting Murphy on the streets of east London, having evidently just beamed down from the planet Gaultier-- a pop peacock out of place and time in the mundane Kate Nash-ville of British pop 2007.

The record itself finds Murphy on her best behaviour, however-- wearing its natural wildness and eccentricity lightly, Overpowered is focused solely on the dancefloor. Her collaborators, from Bugz in the Attic and Groove Armada, have constructed a gleaming shrine to the spirit of Bobby O and Giorgio Moroder: The lead single and title track borrows a primordial bassline squelch from the dawn of cosmic disco-- La Bionda's "I Wanna Be Your Lover"-- and the follow-up, "Let Me Know", shamelessly plunders the chorus of Tracy Weber's 1981 classic "Sure Shot".

Murphy is the singer that the mid-00s British nu-pop of Richard X and Xenomania has so dearly missed: A dramatic yet unshowy singer, versatile enough to take in the regal hauteur of "Primitive", the cerebral chill of "Dear Miami", the randy glee of "Footprints", the chutzpah and grace of "You Know Me Better". She's funny, clever, heartbreaking, and strident, the kind of disco singer Dusty Springfield never quite had the abandon to become. At times, however, she's almost too willing to play it straight. "Movie Star" laces itself a little too tighly into Alison Goldfrapp's glam pop corset, while "Cry Baby" is stuffed to the gills with syndrums and cowhorns to the exclusion of much else. And the dubby song for her dad, "Scarlet Ribbons", is sweet but feels a little out of place. But these are quibbles. In a year of low-stakes disappointment for European pop, Overpowered is a triumph.

People with tickets for her upcoming shows: keep an eye on her myspace for possible cancellations, she broke her eye socket during a show in Moscow last weekend.

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=28819230&blogID=323413623

(and a video of the accident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAyLwHSpmCI )

What the hell!

Hmm, I was planning on going to see her at the AB

That's on the 19th & 21st, could still be happening, but I'm not sure. (Both shows are sold out already, by the way)

Urgh...

that review is so pompous!!

Róisín is the new Pet Shop Boys!

she's not cancelling that much...most gigs are still on. She's tough. Who needs eyesockets anyway...

yup ! shes got some nice bits, in the same way cathy dennis, lisa stansfield, and sophie el-B have/had nice bits...

...shes definitely got more nice bits than suckier bits and theres not many albums you can say that about

i think im in love with a voice...

i heard one song from this in a shop the other day that had dismal timbaland-style backing vocals. she is milfish though. and this performance from jonathan ross' show is terrific. i find her really interesting to watch as a performer. and not just cos she is milfish. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01F47fVY6mE

Love the record, one of the best of the year.

lol i was like roisin murphy is that the one from portishead or morcheeba?

i like that song/video/outfit

anyone who thinks its "your datin' my daughter." needs to check themselves.

good album

Loving it, yes.

Plz complete equation (breaking brain):

Let Me Know = D Train's Keep On + Fonda Rae's Over Like a Fat Rat + ______ (some obvious early '90s house thing, right?)

m people?

It samples Tracey Weber's "Sure Shot".

...'you know me better' is one of my top tunes of the year

the vocal processing on this album is divine...

Awww... How sweet, that eyebrow!

http://stubru.be/node/35791

anyone got the Concert Live album released in her UK gigs?

(some obvious early '90s house thing, right?)

I thought CeCe Peniston, but you'd know better than I would.

Love the record, one of the best of the year.

I've owned it for less than 12 hours and tend to agree.

yeah, this thing is proving to be a real grower for me. 'Tell Everybody' and 'Dear Miami' are undeniable.

"anyone who thinks its "your datin' my daughter." needs to check themselves."

ears, hormones or brane?

dear miami is my fave track by far.

Yeah me too, I've had the "Strictly rolling - VIP" line twirling in my head since this morning...

While "Strictly Rollin' - VIP" is an undeniably great line, it sounds quite incongruous coming from Roisin. However, this same incongruity precludes any possible enjoyment of "Movie Star" where the metaphor just sounds childish.

just got this album (so cheap too - only a fiver at fopp, which makes me feel a bit guilty). like it a lot so far. love her voice anyway but now she has the songs to match (did hear the last album but never got far with it, but this is tempting me to buy it again). sounds very 80s though, kind of like 80s chart music for grownups (but not in a boring jools holland 'mature' way). ive a feeling the production of this is going to date quite soon, but its otherwise great.

scarlet ribbons reminds me of (good) simply red! sade too, maybe.

this whole album seems the work of someone who listened to the charts every week in the late 80s (like i did).

that makes sense, as much of the live show was like LEVEL 42.

Rediscovering this album... it really is incredible isn't it?

Is she big in the UK?

Not really. Think the album just about cracked the top 20, none of the singles did very well as far as i know. Should be massive obv.

really don't understand why róisín's music flops so persistently - electropop girls are apparently "in" right now, or so say a ton of articles, and mediocrities like la roux and little boots are getting loads of hype and genuine success off the back of it, and yet róisín - the only one of them who seems to have genuine vision and talent - languishes. does she even have a deal any more?

live she is this amazingly well oiled entertainment machine, its kindof unbelievable the hysteria that was in the air when I saw her at Sonar last year

she doesn't have the newness or youth which seems to make it difficult for industry powers to work with in this area.

'Movie Star' was one of the few tracks i thought would've worked best as a single (stronger than 'You Know Me Better' imo), maybe even 'Cry Baby' - all the weakest (least sophisticated) tracks on the LP really tho.

goldfrapp somehow managed it and alison's at least as old as roisin, surely?

'let me know' was a terrible choice of lead single...the title track should've been a proper release

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/9069/stolelookpz9.jpg

lol

her style is SICK

The title track was the lead single iircxp

goldfrapp somehow managed it and alison's at least as old as roisin, surely?

goldfrapp's 8 years older but probably had/got more sex appeal for more people - dunno if that was a factor but the last album moved away from electropop anyway and i'd be surprised if she went back to it

brainwasher out of interest where did you find that image?

I'd have sex with Roisin over Alison for what it's worth (and if you're reading, ladies).

http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=59071

thanks (keep forgetting about that site)

Saw Roisin play at Pukkelpop last summer and she was one of the headliners, so apparently she's pretty big in Belgium? Crowd were really into it anyway

so apparently she's pretty big in Belgium

like citizen dick!

'let me know' was a terrible choice of lead single...the title track should've been a proper release

― lex pretend, Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:51 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

that single was awesome waht u talkin bout

lolled @ titchy making an almost stupid-free post until he had that thing abt the production 'sounding dated soon' <---d00d could you get any more meaningless

that's harsh, i was gonna say above that if something like 'Movie Star' was being released now by Lil Boots people would definitely pass it off as 'dated', 'so 5 years ago' or whatever

The production tricks on this are so diverse, but if u prefer its the meaning that u just described that's missing from his vague crit

I adore this album.

Been listening to this again lately - so so great.

goldfrapp's 8 years older but probably had/got more sex appeal for more people

RONG

roisin is beautiful. alison g has a round moonface

I always find there's a bit of a spark missing for me with Roisin's music (I felt the same about Goldfrapp's electro stuff actually), but it's mostly because the music business has seemingly only just worked out how to market 'credible' female pop singers. I think Goldfrapp only really managed it because her image was so ridiculously in your face and she had that massive swooping voice and was willing to play every single festival in the world for years.

Both Roisin and Alison are kind of hangovers from the 90s but Goldfrapp never really had the baggage of a Sing It Back or The Time Is Now (the royalties from both of which probably ensure she never has to work again). La Roux and Little Boots are coming from a totally different place to either - they're emerging from that post-Hot Chip/indieclash/rave sensibility. But mostly they're more marketable because they're new.

luv roisin but never really fancied her. that's a good pic tho.

bangin' new choon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucg-S2WpMec

oh man, nice

Great! What the heck does that synth line in the chorus remind me of though? Really bugging me.

Ah, Pet Shop Boys - Domino Dancing.

There's another new song too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCOqB6Pc43Y

'overpowered' is totally an amazing album, i like it a lot more than the herbert one

thank you thank you thank you stevem

New single out November 16
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/Roisin_HighRes.jpg
It's streaming on her Myspace right now

that cover!!!!

It's a truly bizarre single, the way its constructed musically. But I love it.

Terrible sleeve.

hate to say it, but "cougar Sheila E." is not a good look on her

i wonder when that was taken? she's like 9 months pregnant now, so it must be from a pretty old shoot.

like the track a lot, more excited about the upcoming uk funky beats and donaeo collabs she's promising.

omg

so conflicted

New York, NY– (November 2, 2009) – Disco Electro Pop Queen Roisin Murphy has been busy as the almost 9 month gone pregnant singer is ready to unleash her new single as well as become a new mother. After nearly 2.5 years of promoting her critically-acclaimed OVERPOWERED album, Murphy has been in the studio working diligently on her new music. “ORALLY FIXATED” will be one of three singles that Murphy will be distributing by AWAL (http://www.awal.com/content/roisin-murphy-feature) into iTUNES with a release date of November 16th in the UK and November 17th in the US.

Murphy is also taking a more viral approach with these releases than ever before through video blogs, remix competitions, and some other special surprises. “My fans are so loyal and I am really excited to have them more involved in my creations,” says Murphy. New music has been hinted to as Murphy has made special appearances recently spinning in clubs throughout London and was this year’s musical muse for VIKTOR & ROLF’s Paris Fashion Show.

“Orally Fixated” will first stream on her social networking pages – www.myspace.com/roisinmurphy and www.facebook.com/roisinmurphy first and then a global 48 hour free download promotion will be launched from www.guardian.co.uk/music to be announced in coming days. As Murphy will be tending to motherhood during the later part of this year she urges her fans to be patient as the upcoming singles will be rolled out in early 2010 in a special way virally for her loyal fan base and others. The new music to come will tread on a new departure for Murphy as she explores a new edge mixing a bit of key note British urban beats and MC’s to her notable pop sensibilities. For more information please stay tuned to both Myspace and Facebook pages alike.

Terrible timing as far as promoting the record goes, hence the viral approach I guess.

Like anyone was going to buy it anyway...

i really really like this song!

Who produced it?

So am I the only one who thinks that cover=HOT!

she is never not hot

I'm not sure what to make of the song. Kinda sounds like a remix. But yeah definitely interesting I guess... and that guitar solo, WTF? (not in a bad way though).

xpost- she's never not hot ...but do you think she looks hot in this one?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3652/3433132077_f291c6213b.jpg

ha....warm rather than hot there perhaps

So am I the only one who thinks that cover=HOT!

it is but on such a basic level that it feels like pandering she hasn't done before for whatever reason. maybe it is cool to do in a 'wanna do this before becoming a mum' type way or maybe just 'people who didn't buy the last two aren't gonna go for this but a cruder/more provocative cover might attract newcomers'? me cynical

tbh i hate the sleeve more for the tacky black outline around the white text. i dislike the title too but maybe just because of the shakira similarity. it all seems a bit wrong but the single is alright (probably a grower).

That new cover is so obviously a joke. It looks like a scene from a Jackie Collins novel or something.

obviously i approve of the new cover but i eagerly look forward to it being praised as art by an artist not like those pussycat doll whores by various liberals

It's not the crudeness that bothers me, it's just how badly done it is. It looks like it aims for Jackie Collins but actually hits somewhere around Readers Wives. Maybe that's the point, but it just looks cheap.

Okay whatever one below Jackie Collins is on the trashy fiction scale.

the typeface is pretty tacky and it makes the title look like 'anally fixated'

The cover is more Bunuel/Deneuve in Belle du Jour than Jackie Collins. The outline stroke on the the type though, yes: horrific.

its the same typeface from the last album tho - Shelley Volante. i've used it before on a wedding invite design for a friend ha ha.

When I think that I'm over you, I'm anally fixated.

lol

yeah, it's the font and the layout that take what is potentially workable and slide it right into super-corny and cheeep looking. By contrast, the "Overpowered" cover is fab. I get the "Belle de Jour" ambition but it doesn't work. Anyway, hope record is awesome.

Shelley Volante is such a great name.

As far as I can make out, the lyrics are about feeding an insatiable infant boy. There's no room for more cunning linguistic interpretations. Which makes that cover doubly odd (and wholly out of keeping with her groomed persona).

On the Guardian website now:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/audio/2009/nov/10/download-roisin-murphy-orally-fixated

HELLO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHLC4sXm8VI

FUCKING AWESOME. can't put it any better than rich juzwiak on twitter - this song contains almost all of the best dance music sounds from the past 30 years.

^ awesome!! The last two minutes make for instant summer 2010 excitement.

love the hiphouse drums and piano. reminds me of the beatmasters but roisin is no betty boo!

sounds a bit like martha wash fronting technique-era new order

this is a very good thing in my book

http://www.awal.com/sites/localhost/files/imagecache/cover/packshots/842108058756.jpg

Mama's Place out on 18 Jan

out of the thin black stroke frying pan and into the drop shadow fire ;]

yup, that's quite an outer glow shes got going on

I take it all of the best sounds in the last 30 years of dance music are from 1987. That aside, I hated the last album and love this song.

I take it all of the best sounds in the last 30 years of dance music are from 1987.

Yes I think this is what Lex/Rich secretly mean. But if you had to choose a year it's a great year to choose! Liking this a lot.

i'd go for 89/90. they year dancin danny d paired with cathy dennis blew up. damn she was fine. incidentally they dont sound too unlike the latest roisin outing.

all of the best sounds in the last 30 years of dance music are from 1987

well duh

so róisín is on form in 2010 huh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mzWFt5e1mk

love the things she does with her voice on that

I DON'T WANNA HEAR THE ALARM
YOU DON'T HAVE TO USE YOUR CHARM
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BREAK MY ARM
...
I AM IN THE MOOD RIGHT NOW
BABY CAN WE MOVE RIGHT NOW

oh shit this is hot

god i love this woman

oh shit this is hot

― ALLAH! *rolls on floor* (HI DERE), Wednesday, March 24, 2010 1:39 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

sick hot

has an old school house sound to it

it's just so ALL OUT and unrestrained

every time this thread gets bumped I am reminded that I am a dumbass for not owning everything this woman has recorded

both of you otm. her voice!

also it totally sounds like she's singing/yelling I DON'T HAVE TO FEEL YOUR JUNK-JUNK-JUNK-JUNK

Very few albums have aged as well as Overpowered.

it's a shame that the rest of the crookers album is so bad. they got it right on this one though. there are a few others that are ok, but this one just clicks.

I can't believe i like a Crookers track. I'm gonna get kicked off the Erol forum for this. ::hangs head in shame::

(oh wait, I'm already banned.)

But seriously. These days, Roisin Murphy could sing over my fax machine and it would still be the most amazing track in the world.

lol

I don't know how I managed to avoid hearing it (or even knowing it existed, for that matter), but her cover of "Slave to Love" is AH-MAY-ZING.

johnny fever come lately

It's not like the maxi for "Movie Star" was all over the place here in the US, so yeah...I'm a little late.

it was just an easy pun off yr name tbh

i remember hearing 'let me know' when i was visiting my sister in seattle, it was on the radio & at first i thought it was some lost cut from 'the perfect beats' tommy boy comps or something ... beat was super 80s electro, but the vocals were way more contemporary sounding ... tripped my shit up, esp when i didnt realize it was roisin so i was feeling it context-less. i was just like, 'what an inventive blend'

listening to this for the 1st time, very disorienting, cuz i keep hearing the ghost of ferry's original in the back of mind, as accompaniment. synth arpeggios & vox are very nice, but damn, it feels way too fast! want it to all crawl a bit more slavishly towards the feet of love. pace is less distressing during the verses.

u like girl talk

"Momma's Place" is awesome!

Yep, it is, Alfred. I'm so eager for a proper follow-up to Overpowered.

Momma's Place is pretty awes, but Orally Fixated was straight bizarre (in a good way, imo).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c96XmnYaj6M

u like girl talk

have the sense i'll have to get used to this

have no problem w speed in general, but the racing clip here seems a bit out of place

then again, i like girl talk

ok holy shit, "Movie Star" is the best song I've heard in a while---this is my first listen to this album & this artist in fact---cannot stop playing "Movie Star" though

Lots of better tracks on the album IMO. Have you got to "Dear Miami" yet?

yes, I listened to it all, but "Movie Star" just hits all my spots. I'm open minded! I'll listen again...

"You Know Me Better" is the JAM.

movie star is pretty fuckin cool

There's not a track on the album I don't like, but for me "Primitive" is the high water mark.

so many great songs on this! you know me better, let me know, primitive, and tell everybody are prob my favs

WHERE. IS. NEW. ALBUM. ALREADY?!?!?!?

PRI MI TIVE

is what i said

There's not a track on the album I don't like, but for me "Primitive" is the high water mark.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, August 13, 2010 3:29 AM (6 hours ago)

btw if you ever get a chance to see her live i would strongly urge you go.

i want to see but am american so...

SOL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour

LOL (seriously) fuck you (not really)

still laughing irl

"...undertaken by mainly upper-class European young men of means."

New song with Mason called "Boadicea". Not bad!

http://soundcloud.com/iason/mason-feat-roisin-murphy-boadicea

"boadicea" is awesome!

every time this thread gets bumped I am reminded that I am a dumbass for not owning everything this woman has recorded

― ALLAH! *rolls on floor* (HI DERE), Wednesday, March 24, 2010 8:44 AM (8 months ago) Bookmark

Crap youtube of Roisin and Toddla T's release for Record Store Day. Sounds good though!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p13PnVKgZ0&feature=player_embedded

Video for "Boadicea". Róisín's only in it as a photo, but the video is hardcore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kEYVKB6P2Y

"Cherry Picking" apparently being released wide on 12" vinyl today after just being limited on RSD. Still no sign of any digital offerings, though. >:(

Overpowered is the best pop record of the last half decade.

ha. its good anyway

Wait, this was seriously last updated four hours ago? I found this through search b/c I'm listening to "Let Me Know" and it's sooo good.

I'm glad we all like Róisín enough to bump this thread every few weeks.

YOU KNOW, I JUST WANNA DANCE FOREVER
AND YOU WANNA TAKE THAT FROM ME

all about "stealing by ~ LIBERTYYY ~ YEAH YEAHH "

ugh damn, by = my

SUPPOSE YOU THINK YOU'RE REALLY CLEVER
STEALIN MY LIBERTYYY

you left out YEAHH YEAH at the end :/

http://www.hardcandymusic.com/2012/02/roisin-murphy-david-morales-golden-era.html

I am finally hearing Overpowered for the first time thanks to Spotify

what a fucking great album

YOU KNOW ME BETTER THAN I KNOW MYSELF

^ still my favourite song on this.

Munich label Permanent Vacation have sprung a surprise with the news they are releasing a 12″ from Irish singer Róisín Murphy.

Entitled “Simulations”, the classic disco track has been floating around in demo form on YouTube since the end of 2011, and has been eagerly anticipated by Murphy’s army of slightly over enthusiastic fans. At the time it surfaced, the singer revealed that it was recorded with a “well-respected producer from Northern England” leading said fans to speculate over a reunion with her former Moloko partner in crime Mark Brydon.

In fact, Murphy recorded the track with Steel City legend Richard Barratt, formerly one half of the iconic Bleep Techno act Sweet Exorcist alongside Richard H. Kirk and more recently responsible for some excellent, self styled “fraudulent disco” releases under the Crooked Man banner. It’s not the first time the two have worked together, with Murphy contributing vocals to the mid 90′s Grace Jones cover “Feel Up” Barrat produced under the Spook alias. If you are not familiar with Barratt’s story, we can heartily recommend this interview with him on the Faith: Strobelight Honey website.

Murphy is no stranger to working alongside respected producers, with Mattew Herbert and Seiji tasked with behind the board duties on the two solo albums she has released to date, while she also been found providing vocals for artists as varied as David Morales, Toddla T, Mason and Crookers in recent years.

The forthcoming 12″ is complemented with remixes from Murphy’s compatriot and Permanent Vacation regular Mano Le Tough and Eric Kupper – a man with more remix credits than we’ve had hot dinners.

ty, had never heard of this Parrot/Roison Feel Up

Here's the Mano Le Tough remix

http://soundcloud.com/permvac/roisin-murphy-simulation-mano

v nice mix by mano.

eric kupper too... interesting.

this first emerged a while ago but good to see it get a proper release at last

http://soundcloud.com/hardcandymusic/roisin-murphy-simulation-1

le tough remix is good too

even as a lover of slow sleazy disco epics i find the original somewhat overextended and underdeveloped. also the bassline is a little flat, no?

however, the le tough mix is good.

i prefer the original

although nb, i've only listened to both on shitty earbuds at work (i can't believe people think they're actually hearing music on the earbuds that come with ipods)

This is terrific, the world needs more 11 minute sleazy disco epics.

agreed. This song also hasn't aged at bit for me.

listened to these on good speakers and the original is still better than the remix. kinda lackluster work from mano.

This is decent enough, takes a while to get going though: Roisin Murphy, Luca C & Brigante - Flash of Light

i really like that one, heard on bis a while ago

it's a good song but it feels a bit underpowered (see what i did there?)

i think its undercookedness is intentional, and it works for the track, but yeah, something feels missing nonetheless...

hmm opinion changing the more i listen to it so ymmv

STRICTLY ROLLING VIP

otm

HUGE Roisin vibe on some of the new Bat For Lashes stuff...

Bat For Lashes - All Your Gold (Hercules and Love Affair Remix)
http://youtu.be/PdCZN8gyeOo

New guest vocal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1PYOjEfmNI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1PYOjEfmNI

http://www.lagasta.com/freeform-five-feat-roisin-murphy-leviathan/

Anyone else excited about this?

http://www.factmag.com/2014/04/02/roisin-murphy-announces-ep-of-italian-songs-mi-senti/

I am now.

Me! I am!

Mmm, mi sento bene!

I am intrigued.

She is in danger of becoming the new Kathy Diamond, ie a talent in her own right who keeps gracing mediocre dance releases, so this better be good.

Still annoyed that Lady Gaga has the fame/career, while Murphy is relatively little known/unproductive.

Murphy's own fault

Murphy is self-admittedly a recluse and prone to stage fright.

I'm between intrigued and excited

even if it turns out to be disappointing, props for the songs she's chosen and for having the balls to sing them in italian.

I've now watched this concert in its entirety three times.

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

So many hats. Like most of her sets, it would benefit from less jazzy vamping in the middle.

First track is out there!

http://www.clashmusic.com/news/track-of-the-day-114-roisin-murphy

also, cover

http://www.vfeditions.com/product/view/163

The vocals sound a little patchy at points, like they're not mixed property or something… But other than that the track is excellent.

This is excellent news!

http://www.popjustice.com/thenews/roisin-murphys-written-35-songs-for-her-masterpiece-of-a-new-album/127051/

WHOA

Wait, she hopes it will be out by summer but I didn't gather from that (admittedly brief) article that this stuff has even been recorded yet. Marking it on my calendar for 2015 at the earliest.

when I think that I'm over her...

I assumed she meant by this summer but you're right she only says she's written these songs. Can't believe Overpowered is already seven years old.

Maybe she'll work with Matthew Herbert again!

I'd be content with more Richard Barrett ("Cry Baby" off Overpowered, reportedly "Simulation"), though Herbert/Murphy was a perfect match.

she should work with Bashmore

Streaming here
http://www.rollingstonemagazine.it/musica/news-musica/roisin-murphy-mi-senti-in-streaming-esclusivo/

yes!

I heard 'Ancora Tu' out and my that's a gorgeous song. (I thought it was an odd language-transposed Justine & the Victorian Punks cover, didn't know that version was itself an odd language-transposed cover!)

I love all three versions, J+VP probably my favourite but RM's has its own superchill beauty.

I've kind of lost interest in the others songs on the EP though.

didn't think 'Still You' could be improved for me but now hearing it not as an original but as something between a cover of 'Ancora Tu' and a song about 'Ancora Tu' and the memories associated with it adds a very sweet something.

OTM. Another thing I love about "Still You": it kind of sounds like they're chatting and jamming totally naturally over a recording of the original that's playing somewhere in the background. Shares a niche in my brain-catalogue with "Into the Groovey".

sorry, what is "still you"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pByDTsv2CA

oh that's excellent - thanks!

i am now officially obsessed with both versions.

Of course there's also the original:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe2-gdYLjdo

brilliant song, of course, but don't feel much of an inclination to go back to that version.

new mixes:

http://www.factmag.com/2014/09/09/roisin-murphy-remixed-by-cosmic-disco-pioneer-daniele-baldelli-listen-here/

The "Mi Senti" EP is fantastic. 'Pensiero Stupendo' is just really warm and intimate. Really like the conversational and vampy tone of 'Ancora tu'.

I had no idea this was out there but thanks to random search on Spotify tonight for Roisin Murphy this came up. Really great.

New track out and album announced:

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

Nice B-side.

Not fond of mom hair.

So excited for this. Love the new song.

hyped and this song is pretty great and unexpected! is she putting it on itunes or is it going to just be on soundcloud for now...

Not bad! Reminds me of this lost Tricky-Martine track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl6iCmUEBFA

this is good, did she produce it too?

RÓISÍN MURPHY

Thanks, JF. About time we had a proper thread for updates.

did she produce it too?

I believe the main producer is Eddie Stevens, who has worked with Murphy since Moloko days.

this is pretty massive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr6x5J03Hy0

i love it a lot. there was some discussion in one of the other róisín threads