Róisín Murphy-Overpowered

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
[EMI; 2007]
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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 )

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