A1. FIRST DAY
A2. NEED
A3. PICK YOURSELF UP
A4. THEME PARKS
A5. SPRAY CAN
A6. CALL ME BACK
B1. KIND
B2. THE WORDS
B3. DUST YOURSELF OFF
B4. IRL
B5. FORGIVE
Meaning shifts throughout Martha Skye Murphy's debut album ‘Um’ with songs that meld moments of baroque beauty with crashes of electronic noise, employing textures that are by turns organic and artificial, hi-fi and lo-fi. Collaborations with the likes of Claire Rousay and Roy Montgomery are finely intertwined with the fruits of rigorous studio sessions with producer Ethan P. Flynn.
Lyrically Murphy conjures images inspired by everything from Ancient Roman hand-binding torture to a Fred and Ginger tap routine. A deep sense of longing and echoes of lost, distant memory haunt the record.
“I wanted the album to feel like this constant tension between being in a very intimate domestic space, and then being propelled into a far stranger environment that is difficult to situate,” she says. “I want people to feel
disoriented, erotically charged by the intimacy of a bedroom, then catapulted into a desert.”
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RIYL: Claire Rousay, Squid, Joanne Newsom, PJ Harvey, Goldfrapp, Jerskin Fendrix, Amanda Palmer, Jessica Pratt