Róisín Murphy - Hairless Toys
For once the PR cliches of eager anticipation and welcome return are not misplaced. The unmistakable Róisín Murphy returns with her new album "Hairless Toys".
Her first album in 8 years is a career defining tour de force. Tipping its hat to the dark disco of European house music, Casablanca Records and Grace Jones, while seamlessly taking in the freedom and organic spirit of jazz, country and gospel.The rich, expansive production - by Róisín's long time musical collaborator Eddie Stevens - is full of inventive loops and unlikely hooks, a grand magical spell exemplified by album opener "Gone Fishing". A song inspired by the film "Paris Is Burning", where originality, invention and celebration are escapes from the ugly realities of the world around us, a place where "The practice of realness, feels so surreal".
Available from 11 May 2015 by Play It Again Sam.
Tracklist:
01 Gone Fishing
02 Evil Eyes
03 Exploitation
04 Uninvited Guest
05 Exile
06 House of Glass
07 Hairless Toys (Gotta Hurt)
08 Unputdownable
