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Róisín Murphy
Róisín Murphy announces her new album ‘Take Her Up To Monto’ released on July 8th on Play It Again Sam.
This album is part of an ongoing process of re-emergence that began with the Italian language Mi Senti EP and then the Hairless Toys album. Mi Senti was made in 2014 with former Moloko keyboardist and musical director Eddie Stevens and Murphy’s partner Sebastiano Properzi. Murphy took time out after her 2007 album Overpowered and this was the first time that she had been back in the studio for a major project – rather than just lending vocals to someone else’s record “I suppose Mi Senti seemed a bit of a curveball, certain people expressed exasperation at my choice to sing Italian songs, like I was deliberately trying challenge or test people’s patience when nothing could be further from my mind. In my mind Mi Senti was a love letter to my creative life, a thing of joy and the most natural thing for me to do at that point. It was technically challenging and highly invigorating” – it was like she’d never been away. After Mi Senti , she and Stevensreturned to the studio for a five week session, working production-line style, after which they ended up with easily two albums’ worth of songs: what would become both Toys and Take Her…
Very simple but very complicated: that’s Murphy all over. Someone who writes songs that hit you direct in the pleasure centres, but possessed of unending, disconcerting complexities that unfold out of every phrase and snippet the minute you begin to look into them. The Take her up to Monto album has got everything she’s always done – flights ofdisco fancy, dark cabaret, the sonorities of classic house and electronica, the joy and heartbreak of pure pop, torch song drama – but seen afresh, made into new, strange shapes.