PETER MURPHY | The Artroom Surprise single cowl art work
PETER MURPHY
THE ARTROOM WONDER
new single
out twenty first March 2025
(Metropolis Information)
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SILVER SHADE
new album
2xLP | CD | digital
out ninth Could 2025
Having issued ‘Let The Flowers Develop’ (a shock duet with Boy George) as a standalone single in late 2024, unique post-punk icon Peter Murphy adopted it in mid-February with ‘Swoon’, an imposing slice of synth-punk/funk that additionally served as an ideal Valentine’s Day present for his followers.
‘The Artroom Surprise’ is on the market as a model new single from in the present day (twenty first March), with Murphy explaining its genesis as “an echo from my 4th 12 months at senior college. Daniel Ash [former Bauhaus bandmate] and I are listening to the mysterious sixth 12 months cool intelligentsia which have gathered within the artroom. We’ve got dared to enter their conclave, and the music coming from it’s intriguing. We uncover that the music being performed is [David Bowie’s] ‘The Bewlay Brothers’, very smart, mystical and sensual, with the singer’s voice as seductive as anybody I’d ever heard.”
Describing his personal music, he continues: “It has a surreal strategy, telling the story in my typical indirect model, together with the outline of a lowdown that leads into an evocation of the perfected human being, the Prophet Muhammad (might peace be upon him). The ultimate verse celebrates my very own self-advancing and place on this.”
Justin Chancellor of Instrument performs bass guitar on ‘The Artroom Surprise’, one in every of a number of visitor musicians on Murphy’s new album ‘Silver Shade’, which is scheduled for launch on ninth Could 2025 by way of Metropolis Information on 2xLP (with color variants), CD and digitally. Containing each ‘Swoon’ and ‘The Artroom Surprise’, the bodily and Bandcamp digital codecs may also embody ‘Let The Flowers Develop’ as a bonus observe.
Produced by Youth (Pink Floyd, The Verve, Crowded Home, in addition to a member of Killing Joke, The Orb, The Firemen) at his studio in Spain, ‘Silver Shade’ is Murphy’s tenth studio album and a long-awaited follow-up to ‘Lion’, which the pair labored on collectively a decade in the past. A symbiotic relationship born of creative collaboration, Murphy states that “this new album is as highly effective as any of my work so far.”
PETER MURPHY | Silver Shade album cowl art work
SILVER SHADE
TRACKLISTING
1 Swoon
2 Sizzling Roy
3 Sherpa
4 Silver Shade
5 The Artroom Surprise
6 Which means Of My Life
7 Xavier New Boy
8 Cochita Is Lame
9 Soothsayer
10 Time Waits
11 Sailmaker’s Appeal
12 Let The Flowers Develop (with Boy George)
PETER MURPHY | stay photograph by E Gabriel Edvy
Peter Murphy’s solo profession started in 1986 with the discharge of ‘Ought to The World Fail To Fall Aside’, with this and his eight different studio albums so far spawning fan favourites resembling ‘Cuts You Up’, ‘A Unusual Type Of Love’, ‘All Evening Lengthy’, ‘Indigo Eyes’, ‘The Prince & Outdated Woman Shade’ and ‘I’ll Fall With Your Knife’.
Previous to this, Murphy had fronted Bauhaus, who emerged from the fertile UK post-punk scene in 1979 with the discharge of their debut single, ‘Bela Lugosi’s Lifeless’, usually thought of to be the very first gothic rock report. The band went on to report 4 seminal albums earlier than initially splitting in 1983, in addition to additional basic singles resembling ‘Darkish Entries’, ‘The Ardour Of Lovers’, ‘Lagartija Nick’ and ‘She’s In Events’. In addition they had a UK Prime 20 hit with a canopy model of ‘Ziggy Stardust’.
PETER MURPHY : stay photograph by Chad Kelco
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