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.
What is there to say about Róisín? Visionary, Amazing, Exhibitionist? Our thesaurus just isn’t large enough…Neon Nights – 223 –
As the frontwoman and one half of UK-based, alternative dance-pop duo Moloko, Murphy celebrated a successful career throughout the 90s with mixer/producer Mark Brydon and their unique electronic partnership. Across their four studio albums the duo had a number of hit singles including ‘Sing It Back’, ‘The Time Is Now’, ‘Pure Pleasure Seeker’ and ‘Indigo’. Merging their sassy, eccentric and unconventional brand of electronic music, the band became known as one of the most iconic dance acts of the era.