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Róisín Murphy Pronounced Roe-Sheen Born 5 July 1973 In Arklow County Wicklow Ireland Gained Fame With Mark Brydon As The Lead Vocalist For UK Electronic Duo Moloko Formed In 1995. Murphy Recorded Her First Official Solo Material In 2004 With Producer Matthew Herbert Who Had Previously Done Remixes For Moloko. She Released Her Debut Album Ruby Blue In June 2005 In The UK On Echo Records. "Ruby Blue" Produced Two Singles "If We're In Love" And "Sow Into You". She Released Her Second Album Overpowered On 15 October 2007. On 10 January 2008 Overpowered Received A Nomination For The Choice Music Prize In The Republic Of Ireland The Award Is Given Each Year To An Irish Artist Who Has Proved To Produce A Critically Acclaimed Album. Also Overpowered Ended At #30 On Metacritic Best Of 2007 Albums With A Score Of 82. Her Version Of "Slave To Love" By Bryan Ferry Is Featured In The 2008 Gucci Commercial Starring Actor James Franco. The Single "Let Me Know" Was Produced By Groove Armada. Overpowered Produced Four Singles "Overpowered " "Let Me Know " "You Know Me Better" And "Movie Star." In Addition To Her Work With Moloko Murphy Has Contributed Her Vocals To The Works Of Other Artists Including Handsome Boy Modeling School And Boris Dlugosch For Whom She Sang On The Track Never Enough Which Became A Huge Club Hit. On 15 December 2009 Róisín Gave Birth To Her First Child A Baby Girl She Named Clodagh. ‘Róisín Machine’ Is The Next Chapter Of That Ever Unfolding Always Compelling Tale – A Seamlessly Edited 10 Years In The Making Collection Of Tracks Produced In Collaboration With Her Sheffield Pal DJ Parrot At Once Her Most Unabashedly Dance-Floor Ready Yet Deeply Autobiographical Work To Date.
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Róisín Murphy Pronounced Roe-Sheen Born 5 July 1973 In Arklow County Wicklow Ireland Gained Fame With Mark Brydon As The Lead Vocalist For UK Electronic Duo Moloko Formed In 1995. Murphy Recorded Her First Official Solo Material In 2004 With Producer Matthew Herbert Who Had Previously Done Remixes For Moloko. She Released Her Debut Album Ruby Blue In June 2005 In The UK On Echo Records. "Ruby Blue" Produced Two Singles "If We're In Love" And "Sow Into You". She Released Her Second Album Overpowered On 15 October 2007. On 10 January 2008 Overpowered Received A Nomination For The Choice Music Prize In The Republic Of Ireland The Award Is Given Each Year To An Irish Artist Who Has Proved To Produce A Critically Acclaimed Album. Also Overpowered Ended At #30 On Metacritic Best Of 2007 Albums With A Score Of 82. Her Version Of "Slave To Love" By Bryan Ferry Is Featured In The 2008 Gucci Commercial Starring Actor James Franco. The Single "Let Me Know" Was Produced By Groove Armada. Overpowered Produced Four Singles "Overpowered " "Let Me Know " "You Know Me Better" And "Movie Star." In Addition To Her Work With Moloko Murphy Has Contributed Her Vocals To The Works Of Other Artists Including Handsome Boy Modeling School And Boris Dlugosch For Whom She Sang On The Track Never Enough Which Became A Huge Club Hit. On 15 December 2009 Róisín Gave Birth To Her First Child A Baby Girl She Named Clodagh. ‘Róisín Machine’ Is The Next Chapter Of That Ever Unfolding Always Compelling Tale – A Seamlessly Edited 10 Years In The Making Collection Of Tracks Produced In Collaboration With Her Sheffield Pal DJ Parrot At Once Her Most Unabashedly Dance-Floor Ready Yet Deeply Autobiographical Work To Date.
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The Announcement Of The Album Was Accompanied By A Stream Of The First Track "Gone Fishing" Which Murphy Confirmed Was Inspired By The 1990 Documentary Film Paris Is Burning. A Four-Minute Edit Of "Exploitation" Was Later Issued As The First Single With A Music Video Directed By Murphy Herself Released On 13 April 2015. Murphy Commented That The Song Is About "selling Out Manipulation And Exploitation Within Creative Work And In A Relationship." Murphy Later Explained That The Song "came From Being A Bit Wry A Bit Ironic. It's Got A Bit Of A Twinkle In Its Eye. It's Not To Be Taken Too Seriously." Speaking About The Record Murphy Wrote "There Was A Desire To Make An Unquestionably Refined Record. It’s Multi Layered Electronic And Live Instrumentation Musically It Goes To Places Most Pop Music Never Does. It’s Emotionally Bare And Laced With Irony. I Definitely Didn’t Set Out To Make Something Unique Per-Se But It Really Is Like Nothing You’ve Ever Heard Before. So It’s Impossible To Describe Except To Say..It’s Heartfelt." Murphy Directed Accompanying Music Videos For The Singles "Exploitation" "Evil Eyes" "Unputdownable" And "House Of Glass". Harriet Gibsone Of The Guardian Found "Gone Fishing" Contains "Italo-Disco House Mutations And Unusual Country Diversions". Heather Phares Of AllMusic Stated Second Track And Second Single "Evil Eyes" Has An "irresistible Groove". Christopher Monk Of MusicOMH Pointed Out The "scuttling Percussion Nile Rodgers-Esque Guitar Atonal Piano Stabs" Of "Exploitation" While Jim Carroll Called The Lead Single "a Track Where The Groove Is Simple And Sparse Works With Considerable Panache." Phares Noted The "synth Bass And Waggish Backing Vocals On 'Uninvited Guest'" And Called "Exile" "a Dreamy Bit Of Torch Twang". In Her Review For Pitchfork Media Katherine St. Asaph Pointed Out That "Exile" Is "delivered In A Wearied Whisper". St. Asaph Judged "Unputdownable" To Be "a Traditional Murphy Extended Metaphor—lover As Page-Turning Book" Continuing On To Say That "'House Of Glass' Delivers Grand Statements Often Set Stark Against The Music". Monk Described "Hairless Toys Gotta Hurt " As A "lovely Ballad" And Thought "Unputdownable" To "end The Album On A Downer Before It Transforms Into Something Quite Uplifting". Hairless Toys Received Positive Reviews. At Metacritic Which Assigns A Weighted Mean Rating Out Of 100 To Reviews From Mainstream Critics The Album Has An Average Score Of 80 Based On 15 Reviews Which Indicates "generally Favorable Reviews". The Quietus Called The Album "a Complete Masterwork " Praising Murphy As "still Some Serious Way Ahead Of Her Peers." Pitchfork Media Called Hairless Toys "the Most Cerebral Work Of Murphy's Decades-Long Career" And Described It As "all Gleaming And Immaculate From A Distance Sharp And Shattered If You Get Too Close." Heather Phares Of AllMusic Stated That The Album "opts For A More Personal Approach That Is So Powerful In Part Because It's So Quiet " Declaring It "a Welcome Return And Murphy's Most Satisfying Album Yet". Electronic Beats Called The Album "a Decisive Step Forward And A Definitively Experimental Pop Record Delivered With A Confidence That Defies The Brevity Expected Of Chart Fodder." The Guardian Wrote That Hairless Toys Is "pure Evocative Elegance". Reviewing The Album For Toronto Newspaper Now Kevin Ritchie Named It The Album Of The Week Writing That It "fuses Delicate Slow-Burning Deep-House-Type Rhythms With Pop Twang And The Odd Bit Of Glittering Glam". Mixmag Also Noted The Album's Integration Of "elegant Deep House Country-Flecked Soul And Idiosyncratic Downtempo" And Called It "a Career High". Writing For The Irish Times Jim Carroll Said The Eight-Year Gap Between Albums For Murphy "has Not Lessened Her Knack For Beautifully Finessed Tunes Pulled Together With Sublime Electropop Belts And Braces." Writing For MusicOMH Christopher Monk Wrote That The Album Is "less Interested In Snagging Listeners' Ears With Catchy Hooks Or Luring Them On To The Dancefloor And More Interested In Building A Strange Compelling Atmosphere". Drowned In Sound Described The Album As "a Wonderfully Dark And Seething Record" And A Work To "absorb Alone". All Songs Written And Composed By Róisín Murphy And Eddie Stevens. Róisín Murphy – Lead Vocals Backing Vocals Tracks 2 And 6 Eddie Stevens – Production Keyboards Additional Guitar Track 6 Bass Track 2 Bottleneck Guitar Track 5 Percussion Track 3 Whistling Track 4 Additional Musicians
Jamie McCredie – Guitar
Dave De Rose – Drums
Rob Mullarkey – Bass Tracks 1 4 And 5 Ride Cymbals Track 6 Dan Darriba – Percussion Tracks 4 7 And 8 Rhianna Kenny – Backing Vocals All Tracks Except 6 Jodie Scantlebury – Backing Vocals All Tracks Except 6 Technical
Mark Allaway – Engineering At Fish Factory Studio Dilip Harris – Engineering At Sofa Sound Billy Halliday – Additional Engineering At Sofa Sound Darius Van Helfteren – Mastering At Amsterdam Mastering Hans-Jörg Maucksch – Vinyl Mastering At Pauler Acoustics Artwork
Mark Farrow – Design And Art Direction
John Ross – Photography
Published: 04 Apr 2016, 20:34
Hairless Toys Is The Third Solo Studio Album By Irish Recording Artist Róisín Murphy Released On 8 May 2015 By Play It Again Sam. It Is Murphy's First Full-Length Release Since 2007's Overpowered. The Album Was Nominated For The 2015 Mercury Music Prize.The Announcement Of The Album Was Accompanied By A Stream Of The First Track "Gone Fishing" Which Murphy Confirmed Was Inspired By The 1990 Documentary Film Paris Is Burning. A Four-Minute Edit Of "Exploitation" Was Later Issued As The First Single With A Music Video Directed By Murphy Herself Released On 13 April 2015. Murphy Commented That The Song Is About "selling Out Manipulation And Exploitation Within Creative Work And In A Relationship." Murphy Later Explained That The Song "came From Being A Bit Wry A Bit Ironic. It's Got A Bit Of A Twinkle In Its Eye. It's Not To Be Taken Too Seriously." Speaking About The Record Murphy Wrote "There Was A Desire To Make An Unquestionably Refined Record. It’s Multi Layered Electronic And Live Instrumentation Musically It Goes To Places Most Pop Music Never Does. It’s Emotionally Bare And Laced With Irony. I Definitely Didn’t Set Out To Make Something Unique Per-Se But It Really Is Like Nothing You’ve Ever Heard Before. So It’s Impossible To Describe Except To Say..It’s Heartfelt." Murphy Directed Accompanying Music Videos For The Singles "Exploitation" "Evil Eyes" "Unputdownable" And "House Of Glass". Harriet Gibsone Of The Guardian Found "Gone Fishing" Contains "Italo-Disco House Mutations And Unusual Country Diversions". Heather Phares Of AllMusic Stated Second Track And Second Single "Evil Eyes" Has An "irresistible Groove". Christopher Monk Of MusicOMH Pointed Out The "scuttling Percussion Nile Rodgers-Esque Guitar Atonal Piano Stabs" Of "Exploitation" While Jim Carroll Called The Lead Single "a Track Where The Groove Is Simple And Sparse Works With Considerable Panache." Phares Noted The "synth Bass And Waggish Backing Vocals On 'Uninvited Guest'" And Called "Exile" "a Dreamy Bit Of Torch Twang". In Her Review For Pitchfork Media Katherine St. Asaph Pointed Out That "Exile" Is "delivered In A Wearied Whisper". St. Asaph Judged "Unputdownable" To Be "a Traditional Murphy Extended Metaphor—lover As Page-Turning Book" Continuing On To Say That "'House Of Glass' Delivers Grand Statements Often Set Stark Against The Music". Monk Described "Hairless Toys Gotta Hurt " As A "lovely Ballad" And Thought "Unputdownable" To "end The Album On A Downer Before It Transforms Into Something Quite Uplifting". Hairless Toys Received Positive Reviews. At Metacritic Which Assigns A Weighted Mean Rating Out Of 100 To Reviews From Mainstream Critics The Album Has An Average Score Of 80 Based On 15 Reviews Which Indicates "generally Favorable Reviews". The Quietus Called The Album "a Complete Masterwork " Praising Murphy As "still Some Serious Way Ahead Of Her Peers." Pitchfork Media Called Hairless Toys "the Most Cerebral Work Of Murphy's Decades-Long Career" And Described It As "all Gleaming And Immaculate From A Distance Sharp And Shattered If You Get Too Close." Heather Phares Of AllMusic Stated That The Album "opts For A More Personal Approach That Is So Powerful In Part Because It's So Quiet " Declaring It "a Welcome Return And Murphy's Most Satisfying Album Yet". Electronic Beats Called The Album "a Decisive Step Forward And A Definitively Experimental Pop Record Delivered With A Confidence That Defies The Brevity Expected Of Chart Fodder." The Guardian Wrote That Hairless Toys Is "pure Evocative Elegance". Reviewing The Album For Toronto Newspaper Now Kevin Ritchie Named It The Album Of The Week Writing That It "fuses Delicate Slow-Burning Deep-House-Type Rhythms With Pop Twang And The Odd Bit Of Glittering Glam". Mixmag Also Noted The Album's Integration Of "elegant Deep House Country-Flecked Soul And Idiosyncratic Downtempo" And Called It "a Career High". Writing For The Irish Times Jim Carroll Said The Eight-Year Gap Between Albums For Murphy "has Not Lessened Her Knack For Beautifully Finessed Tunes Pulled Together With Sublime Electropop Belts And Braces." Writing For MusicOMH Christopher Monk Wrote That The Album Is "less Interested In Snagging Listeners' Ears With Catchy Hooks Or Luring Them On To The Dancefloor And More Interested In Building A Strange Compelling Atmosphere". Drowned In Sound Described The Album As "a Wonderfully Dark And Seething Record" And A Work To "absorb Alone". All Songs Written And Composed By Róisín Murphy And Eddie Stevens. Róisín Murphy – Lead Vocals Backing Vocals Tracks 2 And 6 Eddie Stevens – Production Keyboards Additional Guitar Track 6 Bass Track 2 Bottleneck Guitar Track 5 Percussion Track 3 Whistling Track 4 Additional Musicians
Jamie McCredie – Guitar
Dave De Rose – Drums
Rob Mullarkey – Bass Tracks 1 4 And 5 Ride Cymbals Track 6 Dan Darriba – Percussion Tracks 4 7 And 8 Rhianna Kenny – Backing Vocals All Tracks Except 6 Jodie Scantlebury – Backing Vocals All Tracks Except 6 Technical
Mark Allaway – Engineering At Fish Factory Studio Dilip Harris – Engineering At Sofa Sound Billy Halliday – Additional Engineering At Sofa Sound Darius Van Helfteren – Mastering At Amsterdam Mastering Hans-Jörg Maucksch – Vinyl Mastering At Pauler Acoustics Artwork
Mark Farrow – Design And Art Direction
John Ross – Photography