R?is?n Murphy - Overpowered
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Free Music Review: I'm Overpowered...
Hit: 5 Stars
...by how much I love this CD.
She reminds me of a modern Annie Lennox.
Love it! It's not as experimental as Ruby Blue (also great, but in a different sort of way). It's just fun pop music, but still unique and edgy enough to not get confused with modern Prefab pop like B. Spears, etc. She's not only a great singer, but she has a very sexy voice!
I recommend Overpowered.
Free Music Review: brillance !!
Hit: 5 Stars
absolute brilliance from roisin , if you like dance music this is
for you !
Free Music Review: She's waited her turn, She's waited in LINE!
Hit: 5 Stars
I cannot possibly claim to have objectivity or even make sense when it comes to Roisin: maybe a year ago but certainly not now.
If I start to examine the songs it will turn into War and Peace, so I'll give some barebones impressions:
Roisin has been honing her craft as a singer, songwriter, stage presence and producer for over twelve years now. She's contributed to the creation of 6 critically lauded studio albums with Moloko and by herself. Her lyrical skills are among some of the finest to be seen in the last thirty years. She begs comparison to Cole Porter for her versatile, suggestive, topical and evocative usage of the English language. She is skilled at singing soul, rock and roll, new wave, blues, and cabaret jazz. Her vocal range has expanded consistently since she started by offering spoken words and "pretending" on the first Moloko album, to eventually letting her own voice break free on their third album to seizing pop diva status with the last Moloko album and dizzying the critics with possibilities on her debut album Ruby Blue.
Overpowered sees her honing a well-woven crazy quilt of her personal style with those of her heroes (she's not pretending anymore: she's seriously creating herself before her audience). As such, I don't think anyone really knows her exact vocal range and she's recently added the threat of dynamics to the mix with the track "Primitive" (think Jim Morrison meets Black Francis meets Shirley Bassey...). She's the only singer to offer a carbon copy of Dusty Springfield's late sixties half-breathy, "reedy" delivery (on "Let Me Know") that I've ever heard. Not only that, but she's touched on Joni Mitchell, Karen Carpenter, Anne Murray, Grace Jones, and Debbie Harry (and those are just the females) in recent years: always being true to herself and in the enthusiastic study of pop and rock and in an earnest quest to find where she fits in.
I say she fits in right here and right now. If you turn to pop music for constant stimulation and endless possibility look no further.
"Overpowered" is not a "dance" album as has been suggested. It is an exercise in artistic pop that uses the dance stylings and the often surreal setting of club culture as its starting point.
I didn't want to bore you with my opinions so I'm just giving you facts.
Free Music Review: Freshest Sound in YEARS!
Hit: 5 Stars
I am a Canadian who only heard about this album from a review on amazon.com on another artist where someone suggested people check out "Overpowered". Well, I did and I truly was overpowered by the strength of this record! Honestly, the freshest and best dance/pop I have heard in YEARS.
I am a big fan now and have bought all the singles in support of this album. I do so because it is worth it, but also because UK radio doesn't seem to give her airplay and their is zero promotion in North America. All my friends are also loving it as well and ordering their own. Word of mouth really is a global thing thanks to the internet. Radio may still be a deciding force in chart success, but great music doesn't die - it just gets stronger with time. So many people still haven't heard this album and it's a real shame. If you like music that makes you move, but still has pop hooks and melodies throughout, this is the album for you.
Free Music Review: A Dance Pop Explosion!
Hit: 5 Stars
My, my, my where to start. Well, I first saw the video to 'You Know Me Better' and I was immediately hooked. I ordered her CD. I have no idea why people aren't going rabid over that single. It is everything retro sounding yet entirely modern and enjoyable. Watching this woman frolic around with literally epic sculpted hair and looking like she had raided my grandmothers closet made me wonder " Who the hell is this? Why isn't she famous here?!"
There are many comparisons to her sound, ranging from Bjork to Goldfrapp, Madonna and Kylie Minoque but to me there are points that she is far more Annie Lennox than any of the above. No matter who you compare her to, however, its evident shes' totally her own.
Riddled with pop sounds ranging across the late seventies to the early nineties. It is, again a wonderful piece saturated in retro-ness that is while, obviously, retro, it has it's own modern quirkiness. Her voice is a chameleon, she has a range she utilizes without screaming, it's so refreshing. She sounds great live too, judging by Youtube clips of her singing, that's something really hard to do with a lot of dance-pop songs. She adapts them well and are amazingly different.
You can tell she really enjoys what she's doing, she's not doing it to please anyone really. The songs are tight, and I sense a global warming imagery in the song "Dear Miami". I'm pretty sure places like Miami actually WOULD be the first to go if the ice caps melted.
Great album, great fun!