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More than a decade ago, R\u00f3is\u00edn Murphy had talked to Sheffield-based producer Richard Barratt (aka Crooked Man and DJ Parrot) about taking their collaborative work from her album Overpowered<\/em> further.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n “It was intended to be a big project at the start, but we got waylaid a few times,” says Murphy by phone from her home in London. Murphy wanted to dig deeper into the styles of dance music and club culture that they both knew – everything from disco to rare groove to electro – “with this feeling of Sheffield in it somehow as well.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n They came up with “Simulation<\/a>” and “Jealousy<\/a>,” both of which were released as singles, over a period of a few years. Then they went on to other projects. Murphy covered Italian songs on the EP Mi Senti<\/a><\/em>, and released the albums Hairless Toys<\/a> <\/em>(2015) and Take Her Up to Monto<\/a><\/em> (2016). She collaborated with producer Maurice Fulton, something that she had been wanting to do for years. When Barratt released their track “Incapable<\/a>” through his own label, Bitter End, the single became a club hit and led to a record deal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Out on October 2, R\u00f3is\u00edn Machine<\/em> is the fifth solo full-length from the revered singer, who came to prominence in the 1990s as half of the duo Moloko. It is a ten-song journey through the dance floor influences that have shaped Murphy’s life and career, filled with spacey synths, epic strings, slow grooves and banger beats. All these elements are linked together by an impassioned voice that can make you forget your troubles for a moment, even when she is singing about the thing that’s bringing you down. R\u00f3is\u00edn Machine<\/em> is the disco album we need right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n