Take Her Up To Monto – HighClouds https://highclouds.org HighClouds - A Music Blog Wed, 18 May 2016 23:38:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://highclouds.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/favicon.ico Take Her Up To Monto – HighClouds https://highclouds.org 32 32 110112611 Róisín Murphy – Ten Miles High https://highclouds.org/roisin-murphy-ten-miles-high/ https://highclouds.org/roisin-murphy-ten-miles-high/#respond Wed, 18 May 2016 23:38:58 +0000 https://highclouds.org/?p=16239 [su_dropcap style=”simple”]G[/su_dropcap]od might be dead but this goddess is alive, kicking and on a roll. It’s been a productive period for Irish icon and emblem of flawlessness Róisín Murphy. One year after the wonderful “Hairless Toys”, she is ready to give birth again, this time to a little mutant creature, “Take Her Up to Monto”, which was recorded during the same sessions of its predecessor. The album will be out in the summer but if you’re in an impatient mood, new single “Ten Miles High” is here to ease the wait.

A seamless patchwork of textures, melodies and synths, “Ten Miles High” sees a bittersweet Róisín crooning ambiguous words of what could be death or ecstasy over an eclectic soundscape of twinkly, deep and industrial tones. Uncanny and proud to be, inadvertently luxurious, it possesses the curious charm of chic things misplaced in the right spot.

The video for the song was directed by Miss Murphy herself. Shot on location in a London looking like a building site for a sci-fi movie set, it’s a testament to Róisín’s ability to turn the common and mundane in hypercool gold like a hipster Queen Midas. Through her touch, the most basic mirror effect transforms grey urban views into gorgeously weird glass-and-steel landscapes. They’re the perfect background for Róisín to serve different kinds of city realness in the great tradition of “Paris Is Burning“, whose spirit is all over the video: executive, a businesswoman of the Eighties who doesn’t want romance without finance, and avant-garde construction worker. She’s like Margaret Thatcher and a trade union leader at the same time, but with better clothes and definitely more chill.

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“Take Her Up to Monto” is out July 8th via Play It Again Sam. Pre-order it here and get “Ten Miles High” and the equally fantastic “Mastermind“.

]]> https://highclouds.org/roisin-murphy-ten-miles-high/feed/ 0 16239 Róisín Murphy – Mastermind https://highclouds.org/roisin-murphy-mastermind/ Tue, 19 Apr 2016 14:22:33 +0000 https://highclouds.org/?p=15048 [su_dropcap style=”simple”]A[/su_dropcap]fter 9 years of silence following her album “Overpowered”, Róisín Murphy released her album “Hairless Toys”, making happy of all her fans that were waiting for her. We are not going to stop her there since, not even a year after its release, she has already announced the release of “Take Her Up To Monto”, her new album that is due to be released on July 8 via Play It Again Sam. Listen to “Mastermind”, the first track taken from it.


She recorded this album with Eddie Stevens who already co-produced her previous album with Miss Murphy. With this announcement, she also said that, as for her last album, she will be directing all of the videos. “Mastermind” is in the same vein as her previous tracks, keeping the electro-pop vibe we already know from her. She also shared the artcover of the album and the tracklisting that you can check below and you can find her touring this summer in some festivals in Europe, making a stop in Belgium during Pukkelpop.

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01 Mastermind
02 Pretty Gardens
03 Thoughts Wasted
04 Lip Service
05 Ten Miles High
06 Whatever
07 Romantic Comedy
08 Nervous Sleep
09 Sitting and Counting

You can pre-order “Take Her Up To Monto” here.

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