Roisin Murphy - Overpowered reviews
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| Musicomh. |
 Following up her underperforming debut Ruby Blue, former Moloko frontwoman Róisín Murphy is back with her second solo album. Now signed to EMI, she's made her most coherent album yet.
Murphy's songwriting appears to be stronger than ever with a consistent style and sound emerging throughout. She puts this assured sense of purpose, in part, down to a recent obsession with old disco and house music. In her own words she wanted Overpowered to be an album to find a link between that music and what she could achieve in a modern way....full text |
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| BBC |
Following 11 years with Moloko and the Ruby Blue arty solo album with electronica producer, Matthew Herbert, in 2005... Roisin finally returns to the dancefloor. Overpowered is a much more accesible album and the lady herself co-wrote and co-produced, delving back to the fray with her ice-cool vocals and dark, funky, lyrical hedonism.
From the sleezy pop opener, "Overpowered", you know you’re in for a treat. It’s a heady electronic anthem which tells the tale of getting consumed by the lust for an ex-lover, complete with a squelchy bassline and the minimalism of Casio kickdrums which are all secretly lifted by gentle harp and spacey synths. It’s an irresistible match of loved-up disco pop which has a crafty reworking of TIGA's "I Wear My Sunglasses At Night", immediately making it a new classic....full text |
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| Entertainment.timesonline |
| Because first impressions matter, it’s hard not to get excited when you alight upon the sleeve of RoÍsÍn Murphy’s new album. Here, amid the grey Formica of a greasy spoon, we see the sometime Moloko singer dressed in something the late Leigh Bowery might have fashioned had he been locked in a cell with two knitting needles and a barrel of brightly coloured wool. Behind her, dowdy, toothless men sip tea. They’re not actually members of Babyshambles or the View – but, for what the schism might tell you about the difference between men and women in pop right now, they may as well be....full text |
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