The flashy-showy Dublin glam-dance diva Róisín Murphy is around for a while now.
With Moloko she fabricated 4 full lengths between 1995 and 2003 and as a solo artist
she already canned 5 LPs and number 6 is on its way. It’s baptized Hit Parade and
lands on 8th September. Pre-order info here.
One of the singles she shared (so far) is the smooth funky and
soulful musing CooCool. Sensual vibes from a sensual artist.
Murphy: “My fifth studio album is a ten years in the making collaboration with my musical partner in crime Parrot/Crooked Man. This album has been designed as one big landscape of sound; each track mixing into the next. It represents the way I make music, how nothing is ever truly complete – one thing just leads to the next – an extension of ideas. I am a machine.”
NME review: “The eccentric Irish icon’s dancefloor-ready record is her most euphoric yet,
full of hedonistic singalong hits that will make you really, really miss the club… flamboyant
Irish outsider Róisín Murphy is back to claim her throne as queen of the dancefloor, delivering
a decade-in-the-making discofied album full of pulsating feel-good anthems. And it’s an instant classic… Just close your eyes and imagine being among an up-for-it crowd at Ibiza institution Pikes as Róisín brings this record to hedonistic life as the sun sets. Such unified bliss is something we can only dream of right now.” Full review here. Score: 5/5.
Turn Up The Volume: “The gorgeous, utterly sexy-sensual machine is back
with foreplay vibes and orgasmic bangers for 24-hour party people.”
1. ‘You Say’ by Madame So (Paris-born, London-based)
A middle finger to all hostile killjoys out there. Kicking off with a powered guitar riff,
soon followed by Madame So‘s vox hitting the roof with the titanic You Say chorus.
2. ‘Violent Sun’ by EVERYTHING EVERYTHING (Manchester/London)
A terrifically swirling stomper with a last chance message, so don’t
hesitate to get up and dance like Doomsday is just around the corner.
3. ‘Spanish Bombs’ by HINDS (Madrid, Spain) “As Spaniards, we don’t usually get shout-outs in songs, like New York or London,
so the Clash writing a song about our civil war made us feel honored.”
4. ‘Something More’ by ROISIN MURPHY (London, UK)
Sensual dance diva returns with “a swan-song to how we once lived. There’s plenty of
bravado in the lyrics and the character is a kind of antihero but the indefinable yearning
and the feeling of arriving at a point of emptiness is universal right now!”.
5. ‘Club Zero‘ by GO GO’S (Los Angeles)
Out of the blue, the legendary power-pop punkettes, led by Belinda Carlisle, formed in L.A. in 1978, surprise us with their first new song in nearly 20 years. The new cut’s copacetic catchiness and vitalizing joyfulness put a big smile on your face. Welcome back, ladies.
Former Moloko diva ROISIN MURPHY is back. She just announced her new album
called ROISIN MACHINE, hitting the streets on 25 September. Murphy says about the lead-single SOMETHING MORE: “it’s a swan-song to how we once lived. There’s plenty of bravado in the lyrics and the character is a kind of antihero but the indefinable yearning
and the feeling of arriving at a point of emptiness is universal right now!”.
