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Machine Learning: Roisin Murphy Interviewed The thinking raverâs diva of choice chats simulation theory and Kanye West popping round for a cuppa.
Irish art-pop empress
RóisÃn Murphy kicks off her new(ish) disco-inflected solo LP with a sprawling eight-and-a-half-minute instrumental track called âSimulationâ.
I mean, who does that. Bold as fuck. And more to the point, why does it work so well?
âI fetishise ideas,â RóisÃn tells Clash chattily down the phone on around the squillionth week of lockdown, when asked if sheâs hinting at simulation theory.
Simulation theory, by the way, is the fashionable Elon Musk-favoured idea that weâre all living in some elaborate fabricated alien computer programme.