RÓISÍN MURPHY Directs video for “Plaything”

RÓISÍN MURPHY Directs video for “Plaything” Over the past few years of her illustrious and unpredictable career, Roísín Murphy has steered every creative element, and key to this are her music videos. Across the albums “Hairless Toys” and “Take Her Up To Monto” and most recently the video for “All My Dreams”, Murphy has delivered wonderfully off-beat and enthralling snap shots of her artistic world. Today she shares the video for “Plaything”.
Filmed across a two day residency at London’s The Store X last month, Murphy has created four visual chapters to accompany her series of 12” singles created in collaboration with Maurice Fulton and released through The Vinyl Factory this summer. “Plaything” is the second in the series of exceptionally personal videos, In Murphy’s own words; “All My Dreams, the first was about my first rave experience at Shelley’s in Nottingham and it represents a naive youthful burgeoning club culture.This the second, goes darker, we have moved on a few years and by then I had seen people be swallowed up in the euphoria.. “
All eight original songs (four yet to be unveiled) showcase an incredible meeting of minds between Roisin and Maurice Fulton, with lyrics that are intense, exploratory, probing into dark parts of Murphy’s own and the listener’s psyche – all the while working on the immediate, endorphin-stimulating dance-floor level too – and her voice is finer, richer, more expressive than ever. The tracks are full of the unadulterated, but deeply warped funk which Maurice has honed over his decades of dance-floor experience. This is as vivid and urgent as Roísín has ever sounded, and it bodes more than well for whatever comes next in her absurdly exciting on going voyage of discovery.

RÓISÍN MURPHY Directs video for “Plaything” Catch these songs live across Europe throughout the summer, including a London show which sees Murphy closing the Somerset House Summer Series on July 15th.
Stream “Plaything / Like” here
UPCOMING LIVE DATES
29-Jun-18 Newcastle, UK Sage
15-Jul-18 London, UK Somerset House
28-Jul-18 Talin, Estonia SUME Festival
04-Aug-18 Ireland, Waterford All Together Now (3-5)
14-Aug-18 Croatia, Sibenik St. Michael’s Fortress_Croatia
15-Aug-18 Belgrade, Serbia Beer Festival
18-Aug-18 Hasselt, Belgium Pukklepop
30-Aug-18 UTRECHT, Holland Ronda
31-Aug-18 Vlieland ISLAND, HOLLAND The Great Wide Open
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About Bráulio Amado
Bráulio Amado has worked at one of world’s most respected creative enterprises, Wielden + Kennedy, created illustrations for New York Times and Vanity Fair and artwork for the likes of Frank Ocean and Beck. He is also the house designer for celebrated Brooklyn nightclub Good Room.
About The Vinyl Factory
Established in 2001, The Vinyl Factory Group encompasses a record label, vinyl pressing plant, the record shop Phonica and music magazine FACT, in addition to all of its visual arts activities. These include new arts commissions, exhibitions and collaborations between musicians and contemporary artists.
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