Concluso il progetto Moloko, Róisín Murphy, talentuosa e seducente vocalist, debutta come solista con l’album "Ruby Blue", un’opera elettrizzante e raffinata, concepita con l’eclettico producer Matthew Herbert.
Le tracce di "Ruby Blue", alcune già proposte sulla magnifica serie di EP intitolata "Sequins", spaziano fra electro jazz, disco-pop e soul e la voce di Róisín, accompagnata da arrangiamenti eleganti, orchestrazioni sperimentali, sbilenche architetture musicali, raggiunge un nuovo livello, più intimo e sensuale, rispetto alla produzioni dei Moloko.

L’album si apre con "Leaving The City" caratterizzata da un tappeto sonoro tortuoso e bizzarro sopra il quale la cantante si cimenta in singolari peripezie vocali, prosegue con "Sinking Feeling" brano dall’andatura swing a cui l’arrangiamento di Herbert e la voce di Róisín conferiscono una grazia e uno stile retrò ma paradossalmente innovativo. Allo stesso modo, accade con la canzone successiva "Night Of The Dancing Flame" in cui però le atmosfere si fanno più sinistre e notturne. "Through Time" probabilmente la canzone più serena del disco è contraddistinta da un brillante organetto che in sottofondo accompagna il cantato. "Sow In To You" è un brano altrettanto originale ma più energico, funky, ma in modo non convenzionale, ideale per il dance floor. "Dear Diary" pare un brano disco music ma dall’arraggiamento insolito e bizzarro. "If We’re In Love" il primo singolo, può essere indicato come la summa degli stili e delle sonorità presenti nell’album. "Ramalama (Bang Bang)" si mostra minacciosa, ossessiva e decadente. "Ruby Blue" traccia che da il titolo al disco è acida, scomoda ma geniale, mentre "Off On It" è una sorta di blues elettronico dove l’arpeggio di chitarra si sporca con i suoni più disparati e rumorosi. Dopo la breve "Prelude To Love In The Making", chiude l’opera "Closing Of The Doors", una bellissima ed emozionante ballata pianoforte e voce.

L’artwork dell’album è affidato a Simon Henwood, uno degli illustratori, pittori, designer più attivi del panorama musicale e non (fra le ultime opere un ritratto di Devendra Banhart e Kylie Minogue).

"Ruby Blue" non delude le attese e si presenta come un’opera intrigante, eccentrica, imprevedibile, uno spettacolo sonoro unico e innovativo fatto di musica a tratti complicata ma capace di svelarsi lentamente, di incuriosire, di affascinare e di sedurre l’ascoltatore. Róisín Murphy è la musa, la chanteuse, la diva più adatta per tale operazione, dato che classe e talento certamente non le mancano.

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01   Leaving the City (04:49)

02   Sinking Feeling (03:32)

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deep in quick sand
you dive in at the shallow end
you break your neck and you're never ever gonna get up again
the glasshouse that you lived in is deep in the quickening
angel might call by but fools they rush in

bring some peace to your mind for today is a new day

here in my hand
time is just sand
fine lines of love and hate
there on your face
but I look at it this way
in the next 7 days
in the next in the next in the next in the next
it might just change

how can I write the story that went and wrote itself down in paperback called 'the fountain of know thyself'?
it's a lonely book still upon the shelf

it'll be all smiles and we'll rise and ride on the waves of a sinking feeling

bring some peace to your mind for today is a new day

happy people don't give into
happy people don't give into that sinking feel

it'll be all smiles and we'll rise and we'll sail
it'll be all smiles and we'll rise and we'll sail on the waves
it'll be all smiles and we'll rise and we'll sail on the waves of a sinking feeling.

03   Night of the Dancing Flame (03:26)

04   Through Time (05:58)

05   Sow Into You (03:56)

Sow into you
Into you
Into you

What the...
What the...
Did you do to me
Heavy cloud come down on
When all of heaven’s bliss
Is in this perfect kiss

Rain down on me

Bring me a change in the weather
Break open the sky
Heat keeps building
It’s hot in the city
And I’m not sleeping at night
Can I get relief

I am a lyrical soul
Bound to get carried away
But there’s nothing left to say
‘cept I I I I I
I am a lyrical soul
I I I I I love you

Sow into
Into you
I’ll bring you
Into this earth
Has sorely missed the kiss of rain

Sow into
Into you
I’ll bring you up into it
Is this how it feels to kiss the same

I chose you for your wave
Frequency
You take me up against the freak in me
Just tell me what you
X X X expect of me
Expect of me

I am a lyrical soul
Bound to get carried away
But I think it’s fair to say
You Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh
Love me

Sow into
Into you
I’ll bring you
Into this earth
Has sorely missed the kiss of rain

Sow into
Into you
i’ll bring you up into it
Is this how it feels to kiss the same

Sow into
Into you
I’ll bring you
Into this earth
Has sorely missed the kiss of rain

Sow into
Into you
i’ll bring you up into it
Is this how it feels to kiss the same

Sow into
Into you
I’ll bring you
Into this earth
Has sorely missed the kiss of rain

And I think it’s here to stay
Sow into
Though I’m bound to get carried away
I’ll bring you
But I think it’s here to stay
Though I’m bound to get carried away

06   Dear Diary (05:50)

Dear diary
My dear
Got to keep it all inside
Got to keep it locked behind a
Golden wall of silence
You see I have my pride

And I won't be telling him
Anytime soon
Too afraid to say it
I wouldn't want to embarrass myself
Telling everybody the truth

No I
I won't send this valentine
Violets are blue
And if you don't receive this valentine
It doesn't mean that is ain't true
And I'm not thinking of you

Won't kiss, I won't tell
Never cross these lips
Never break the spell
Decided to go on denying myself
Living alone
Living a lie

No I
I won't send this valentine
Violets are blue
And if you don’t receive this valentine
It doesn't mean that is ain't true
And I'm not thinking of you

I keep living a lie
I keep living a lie

To never speak of it
Or hear the music of it
We'll play a symphony
In my wildest dreams

No I
I won't send this valentine
Violets are blue
And if you don't receive this valentine
It doesn't mean that is ain't true
And I'm not thinking of you

I keep living a lie
I keep living a lie

07   If We're in Love (04:31)

08   Ramalama (Bang Bang) (03:35)

09   Ruby Blue (02:48)

You’d better stop
And try to think
Look what you’re doing
Oh, Ruby

You never get to
Give it all you got
Cause you forgot
To take it to the top
Come On
Ruby Blue

Why do you make a start
With no means to go on?
It’s on the tip of your…
Ruby, we used to love you truly
You used to make us laugh
It really was a gas…

But now you’re a bore

One
Two
Three

It was you
And them
And me
Look what you do
Oh, Ruby Blue

You’d better stop
And try to think
Look what you’re doing
Oh, Ruby

You never get to
Give it all you’ve got
Cause you forgot
To take it to the top
Come on Ruby Blue
Ah Yeah

Nobody cares anyway
If you play the painted lady

Four and more and
Five and six
Who would have believed
It would come to this?
Look what you do
Oh, Ruby Blue

You’d better stop
And try to think
Look what you’re doing
Oh, Ruby

You never get to
Give it all you’ve got
Cause you forgot
To take it to the top
Oh Ruby Blue

One
Two and
Three
Look what you’re doing
Ah Ruby
It was you
And them
And ME

Look what you do
Oh, Ruby Blue

10   Off on It (05:22)

You know that you like it
you know that you love it really

it's just a game that we play
it's a world away from your everyday pain and your suffering
it's just a game my darling please
please don’t go to the trouble
no no not on account of me
for I'm sure to bring double
sure to bring double
I'll bring you to your knees
might you be getting off on it?

you you were asking for this / don't be surprised if you
and now you're gonna get it / don't be surprised if you
you were begging me please / don't be surprised if you
don't be surprised if you

one big joke / don't be surprised if you get it
it's all just one big joke
just mirrors and smoke
a not so elaborate hoax
you know how
one thing tends to / one thing tends to
lead to another
and before you know it you are
you're there tied to the chair / tied to
going nowhere / tied to tied to
might you be getting off on it? / tied to

it's just a game
not your everyday pain
it's just a game / it's just a game
not your everyday pain
it's just a game
it's just a game / it's just a game
it's a world away from your everyday pain / not your everyday pain
and your suffering
it's just a game / it's just a game
not your everyday pain

it's just a game that we play
it's a world away from your everyday pain and your suffering
it's just a game
it's just a game that we play
it's a world away from your everyday pain and your suffering
it's just a game

don't you get off on it?
don't you get off on it?
don't you get off on it?
don't you get off on it?
don't you get off on it?
don't you get off on it?
don't you get off on it?
off on it
off on it
off on it
off on it
off on it
off on it
off on it
off on it
off on it
off on it
off on it
off on it
off on it
off on it
off on it
off on it
off on it
off on it
off on it
off on it
off on it
off on it
off on it
off on it / don't you get

it's just a game that we play
it's a world away from your everyday pain and your suffering
it's just a game
it's just a game that we play
it's a world away from your everyday pain and your suffering
it's just a game.

11   Prelude to Love in the Making (00:53)

12   The Closing of the Doors (03:28)

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