Róisín Murphy is back, baby. After releasing the very-good new DJ Koze-produced track "CooCool" (an Exclaim! Staff Pick, no less) back in March, Murphy has announced her entirely Koze-produced new album Hit Parade, which is arriving September 8 on Ninja Tune.
Alongside the album announcement, Murphy has also shared "The Universe," a wiggling, beach-ready slice of goofy guitar pop. The song has shades of the Durutti Column in its loose, sunny guitar, but Koze and Murphy fuse it with an earworm melody and some slapstick spoken word.
"The universe at large is playful and terrifying. There is no discernible sense to it," Murphy said of the song in a statement. "The story that is always being told is on multiple levels, levels we don't see or understand. The experience of being alive is to be continually reminded of how utterly unaware we are of what is really going on all around us."
On Hit Parade and her collaboration with DJ Koze, Murphy said:
We worked remotely, in different countries sending tracks/ideas back and forth for several years. I always have to approach a new collaboration with openness and a willingness to learn and never more so than with this.
The studio in this case was imaginary, in the airspace between Hamburg and London. That meant we were both in a personal, private place when working on the songs. For me that brought out a more intimate approach to the songwriting, I told this album my secrets.
For Koze it meant total freedom and absolute focus without the distraction of my presence. He too took a deep dive into himself and I believe that's why the music is so vibrant and alive. It is just exploding with colour!
Murphy's last full-length was 2020's Roísín Machine. In 2021, she followed it with the remix album Crooked Machine.
Listen to "The Universe" and check out the Hit Parade tracklist below.
Hit Parade:
1. What Not to Do
2. CooCool
3. The Universe
4. Hurtz So Bad
5. The House
6. Spacetime
7. Fader
8. Free Will
9. You Knew
10. Can't Replicate
11. Crazy Ants Reprise
12. Two Ways
13. Eureka
Alongside the album announcement, Murphy has also shared "The Universe," a wiggling, beach-ready slice of goofy guitar pop. The song has shades of the Durutti Column in its loose, sunny guitar, but Koze and Murphy fuse it with an earworm melody and some slapstick spoken word.
"The universe at large is playful and terrifying. There is no discernible sense to it," Murphy said of the song in a statement. "The story that is always being told is on multiple levels, levels we don't see or understand. The experience of being alive is to be continually reminded of how utterly unaware we are of what is really going on all around us."
On Hit Parade and her collaboration with DJ Koze, Murphy said:
We worked remotely, in different countries sending tracks/ideas back and forth for several years. I always have to approach a new collaboration with openness and a willingness to learn and never more so than with this.
The studio in this case was imaginary, in the airspace between Hamburg and London. That meant we were both in a personal, private place when working on the songs. For me that brought out a more intimate approach to the songwriting, I told this album my secrets.
For Koze it meant total freedom and absolute focus without the distraction of my presence. He too took a deep dive into himself and I believe that's why the music is so vibrant and alive. It is just exploding with colour!
Murphy's last full-length was 2020's Roísín Machine. In 2021, she followed it with the remix album Crooked Machine.
Listen to "The Universe" and check out the Hit Parade tracklist below.
Hit Parade:
1. What Not to Do
2. CooCool
3. The Universe
4. Hurtz So Bad
5. The House
6. Spacetime
7. Fader
8. Free Will
9. You Knew
10. Can't Replicate
11. Crazy Ants Reprise
12. Two Ways
13. Eureka
