Roisin Murphy is the most interesting pop star in the world

Well, you're all clearly philistines. ;)

And, today, the release of another brilliant, surreal, beautiful, wonderfully weird self-directed video. This woman is a true original and, once again, she'll be ignored.

I skied 3 seasons with Overpowered on frequent rotation. Moloko, too. However Hairless Toys isn't all that. It's fine, and mature. Not the most exciting thing though really. And you over gush about Rosin. She's not stunningly beautiful. She's pretty. She was a MAJOR fashion victim in Europe for several years and she's aged out of that. Her fashion taste isn't that adventuress. Pretty mainstream grasping at high, hip, fashion. Her interviews about her influences and about culture are not especially brilliant.

Sorry, dear.

adventurous

I love her. Too bad she's straight as an arrow. And I find her obsession with Italian and German camp hilarious. She truly is one of a kind.

I love, love, love Overpowered, but Hairless Toys is infinitely more sophisticated in every possible way. Overpowered was chock full of excellent slightly left of center dance pop, but I can easily imagine other artists singing those songs and making them successful. Not so with anything on Hairless Toys. Everything is so intricately and delicately layered and intertwined on this album - every touch of percussion, every swooning synth line, every breathless sigh from Roisin. This is one of the most interesting evolutions of a pop star I can remember.

Isn't she one of Conor Oberst's old dicksuckers?

I only know her from Moloko's Sing it Back and that muzak is as soulless as it gets. See also Jessie Glynne.

That EP of electronic covers of Italian standards ("Ti Senti"?) was all kinds of amazing.

R8 - her solo work is very different. I love her solo work, but am pretty indifferent to her, now ancient, Moloko work.

R9 it's Mi Senti and I agree. Ancora especially.

Christ no, she's terribly flat on Ancora.

R12 come again?

It looks like the new video may have been filmed in Italy, too. Those title cards shown intermittently are actually from a Fassbinder film called Fear Eats The Soul about a 60 yr old German woman who has an an affair with a 30-something Moroccan guest worker. The younger Morrocan was played by El Hedi ben Salem, who would become Fassbinder's lover for several years. After Fassbinder broke off the relationship, Salem, in a drunken rage, non-fatally stabbed four people in a bar and then went to Fassbinder to say he had nothing to fear. Fassbinder helped smuggle Salem out of the country, but Salem was caught and arrested in France. He hung himself while in jail in France, but Fassbinder wasn't told about it until he himself was on his deathbed. So, yeah, fun story.

I finally saw Roisin in concert this past week in San Francisco. I believe this is the first time she's toured the US. She was pretty damn magnificent. Impossibly glamorous and ridiculously goofy all at once. Her voice was beautiful, supple and powerful, she had such undeniable stage presence and the 50+ costume changes were absolutely bonkers. Good show.

LOVED her for years!! I watched her set at Coachella last week on youtube. CLEARLY she was bummed at the turn out. Maybe 300 people/gays in the tent. She was up against Bastille and they won. She made a cry baby face when she walked on stage. I was sad for her. But she put on a great performance anyway. Nice to hear her live.

New music

Went to New York to see her at The Mansion back in 2008. It was a great show.

Not sure what to make of this video's slice of no-budget 90s rave nostalgia, but the song is still killer.

Roisin goes full on disco. LOVE IT.

New single, down tempo house... very slinky. From new album coming out in September.

Have always appreciated her. Gaga appropriated a lot of looks from Roisin .

I love a lot of her stuff and have a lot of respect for her.

The last few songs have left me wanting a bit. I wasn't fond of the Take Her Up to Monto project, either. Hairless Toys, Overpowered and a few of her guest spots, along with Moloko work, remain the highlights for me.

Her live performances from home are fearless. The new disco cut is fab.

Róisín Murphy: If I want to be famous I can just go to a gay club

Bjork does it better.

Love Bjork, but these days their music has very little in common. Roisin still embraces house, disco and dance music (yes, with a weird, intriguing edge), but it's still dance music. I'm not sure I'd call what Bjork does dance or pop -- not that it isn't great.

It's nice to see Roisin getting the attention she deserves. Sounds like the new album's going to be such a treat.

NY Times chats with Roisin

Roisin Murphy? How 2003!

Apparently, she decided to make an impromptu live performance video of Something More while on a socially distanced vacation in Ibiza. LOVE IT.

LOVE this interview she's done with OMG Blog. Honestly, music journalism would be so much better if left-of-center pop women of a certain age were exclusively interviewed by gay men. Having an interviewer who 'gets it' makes such a big difference.

(Also, although Metacritic hasn't started tracking yet, it looks like literally every album review out there is a 4 or 5 star rave!)

Excellent review of her new album:

The album's, currently, close to a 90 on Metacritic and may in fact cross that threshold once all the reviews are in. Great to see her get all this praise.

[QUOTE]Q: What do you think of the disco revival that’s been happening this year, with the new albums from Dua Lipa and Jessie Ware?

[QUOTE]A: “Lovely, good for them – but I’m back to snatch their wigs! To me, disco can be anything. It is a disco record I’ve made, but my idea of it is very broad. I can easily think of Depeche Mode and Sylvester as disco.”

Roisin on Graham Norton. Love the groove of this song. Fabulous dress, too. Not so sure about the eyebrows. Perhaps a bit too editorial for a TV performance.

Why does she keep looking off to the side?

Hot drummer. Who he?

Come on, Vogue

Next performance look?

[quote]Well, you're all clearly philistines. ;)

Are you the tedious 'architect' from the Gucci dress thread, the one who went waaaay too over-the-top trashing others about their opinions about fashion? That poster enjoyed calling others "philistines". 😴 😒

If so, I refuse to discuss Roisin with you. I've been a fan for years, of Moloko and her solo music.

[Quote] If so, I refuse to discuss Roisin with you. I've been a fan for years, of Moloko and her solo music.

You're responding to someone from 2015. The poster may be dead.

[quote]You're responding to someone from 2015. The poster may be dead.

The poster has the same level of pomposity, why couldn't it be the same poster? 2015 wasn't all that long ago.

There are posters still here from when DL first launched.

Their last post was at r14.

R40 c’est moi I appreciate your fandom. I don’t think anyone is discussing anything with you as it seems. Bonne chance!

How do you pronounce her name? “Raisin”?

Row(like a boat)-sheen(like of paint)

Soulwax remix if Something More. On heavy rotation in our playlists. 😍👯‍♂️

Gay fans

20 Questions.

On a side note, is anyone else missing the WW, FF and block buttons?

WW for r47 Soulwax rarely ever goes wrong.

Mine worked R49. Back at ya 🙋🏼‍♂️

r49 - I still have the WW and FF buttons. Perhaps you have a browser extension that is interfering?

LOL. She's a riot.

(You might have to turn link previews off)

Downloaded new album and loving it. I have down loaded Overpowered again as have not listened for years.

Is anyone planning to watch her livestream Saturday night?

R54 - I am. Already got my ticket. I do feel a bit bad for her, following Kylie's spectacular Infinite Disco, but of course she'll be working with 1/100th of the budget.

dyke thread

Kylie set the bar high for future livestreams. I have been enjoying the live from home videos Roisin has been posting to YouTube. I saw her in SF right after trump was elected in 2016 and even though there was a WTF just happened feeling still in the air, the show was a fantastic release and the crowd ate it up. Will be interesting to see if she mentions the current election result.

R57 - I was at that show! I'd just moved to SF. Although her 50,000 costume changes were fun, they weren't really necessary, she had so much stage presence and charisma that she didn't need to be playing dress up in the midst of every song.

I really like Roisin, I think Hairless Toys is one of my favourite albums, not just of hers, but generally. Also really like Overpowered too. Couldn't quite get into Take Her Up to Monto, it had too much going on or something - it seems like it should be exactly what I like, but it just didn't connect.

Despite really enjoying her music, I don't necessarily think she's great at making great pop hooks at all. I would say many of her songs from her poppiest album Overpowered sound like with a bit of extra work they would be pop classics, but they're not quite "there". And that's not a complaint from me, I don't love really poppy stuff generally, so her doing that makes her more interesting to me, and more like somebody I want to listen to. But I can tell there needs to be something extra in her work to make her hit the mainstream. And as far as I'm concerned, thank god she [italic]doesn't do that[/italic].

I'm a bit excited about Roisin Machine - a recent comp of works she did with house music pioneer DJ Parrot from Sheffield UK. They've been collaborating here and there for a few years now. It's disco house that booms on a proper soundsystem. This is an extended version of one of the tracks...

R58 I think she had more outfits than songs. The energy in the crowd that night was incredible. I saw her a few years later and while she put on a great show, there wasn’t the same electricity in the crowd.

R60 the new album is definitely meant to be played loud.

Roisin's livestream concert is TOMORROW -- Saturday November 14. It's obviously not going to be as slick as Kylie's, but Roisin always puts on a good show...

ahem.

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Ugh, can I have my $13 back?

FB reminded me that her show in SF mentioned above was on this day in 2016.

The show was cancelled?

R66 if you're referring to the comment above you, I was attempting a joke related to her calling Billie Eilish her spirit animal. I should have referenced that post in my comment.

The show is still happening. If you have a ticket you can attend any of the airings today. Second is at 4pm ET, third is at 10pm ET.

Anyone watching the current broadcast? It started buffering heavily around 40 minutes in and is now off air.

Mixcloud is complete amateur hour. If you haven't bought a ticket, save your money. The stream timed out and buffered so many times, it was a joke to try and watch.

I adored her in “A Roisin In The Sun.”

That's not her name, hon.

Apparently subsequent broadcasts improved the stream quality. There's one more at 10pm ET and your ticket is still good for that one, too.

They rebroadcast it right after the 4pm eastern one and it cut out at the same point. Once it came back on, it was much better than the original 4pm (EST) stream, but still buffered here and there.

That was pretty good. I didn't think Rave-at-Costco was what I needed this weekend, but I really enjoyed it.

This might get taken down. To me the highlights were a truly fantastically funky performance of 'Incapable', the always captivating 'Overpowered' and a song I hadn't hear before 'Flash Of Light'

Part 2...

Part 3...

What about us?!?!

- Goldfrapp and Paloma Faith.

She has the Irish kind of chic. There are witch and party girl elements.

Definitely, R80!

Also: Grace Jones.

Yeah, I think Grace has always been a constant for Roisin. Even elements of her streaming show made me think of Grace's 'One Man Show'.

R75, Rave-at-Costco is an excellent description.

I was too busy to rip those 3 youtube parts. Now they are down. :(

I did find this gem for you fellas. Enjoy!

Roisin at Jools Holland's NYE show. Nice version of Incapable with Jools' orchestra.

"Roisin Machine" is so fucking BORING. I expected better.

R88 - that's one thing I haven't heard before. Were you a Roisin fan before? I can't imagine being a fan of hers and finding the album boring. It's one house or disco banger after banger. I mean, they're not little 2 1/2 minute cookie-cutter dance-pop songs, that's true. But that's not what we go to Roisin for.

Murphy's Law. Live from a tree in Ibiza.

Something More live from a villa in Ibiza

The new album Crooked Machine is out today and is fantastic from start to finish. It's Roísín Machine reimagined into a more after-hours feel by frequent collaborator Crooked Man. The song titles are wordplay on the original titles.

Crooked Machine.

Music for people with no taste to pretend they have taste

Or maybe people simply enjoy what they enjoy without worrying about what constitutes "taste" as deemed by someone like R94 who added zero to the conversation.

R95 choke on your father’s cock

Go eat shit