{"id":804945,"date":"2020-03-06T06:33:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T13:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=961238"},"modified":"2020-03-06T06:33:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T13:33:37","slug":"roisin-murphys-new-single-is-a-glorious-disco-throwback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/roisin-murphys-new-single-is-a-glorious-disco-throwback\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00f3is\u00edn Murphy\u2019s New Single Is a Glorious Disco Throwback"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Roisin.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>R\u00f3is\u00edn Murphy has contributed a few songs to the dance-club canon over the course of her 25-year career as a soloist and a member of Moloko. But recently, this material has become her primary focus. She released a series of collaborations with the gifted house producer Maurice Fulton in 2018, thumping, rubbery numbers that hinted at ESG and Jocelyn Brown. Last year, she put out \u201cIncapable,\u201d a smoldering, cold-hearted floor-filler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncapable\u201d was produced by Richard Barratt, and he reprises that role on \u201cMurphy\u2019s Law,\u201d where the interplay between the keyboard, bass, and pinprick guitar evokes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/disco\/\" id=\"auto-tag_disco\" data-tag=\"disco\">disco<\/a> classics like Joe Bataan\u2019s \u201cSadie (She Smokes)\u201d and Donna Summer\u2019s \u201cBad Girls.\u201d Murphy writes from the perspective of a character trapped in a small town with an ex \u2014 a perennially popular subject for country radio hits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YOb4VUgRqo0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">from the likes of Sam Hunt<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u6BTbjFsW-w\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Brantley Gilbert<\/a>. \u201cEver since we broke up, I\u2019ve been afraid to go out,\u201d Murphy sings. \u201cBut I won\u2019t be a prisoner, locked up in this house.\u201d Venturing out comes with its own dangers, though, in the form of a backslide: \u201cJust one match could relight the flame\/And just when everything is goin\u2019 alright\/All my hard work goes down the drain.\u201d But if you\u2019re going to backslide, might as well do it on the dancefloor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/roisin-murphy-murphys-law-961238\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R\u00f3is\u00edn Murphy has contributed a few songs to the dance-club canon over the course of her 25-year career as a soloist and a member of Moloko. But recently, this material has become her primary focus. She released a series of collaborations with the gifted house producer Maurice Fulton in 2018, thumping, rubbery numbers that hinted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 21:38:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}