PETER MURPHY | The Artroom Marvel single cowl paintings
PETER MURPHY
THE ARTROOM WONDER
new single
out twenty first March 2025
(Metropolis Data)
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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, authentic post-punk icon Peter Murphy adopted it in mid-February with ‘Swoon’, an impressive slice of synth-punk/funk that additionally served as an ideal Valentine’s Day reward for his followers.
‘The Artroom Marvel’ is on the market as a model new single from immediately (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 track being performed is [David Bowie’s] ‘The Bewlay Brothers’, extremely smart, mystical and sensual, with the singer’s voice as seductive as anybody I’d ever heard.”
Describing his personal track, 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 Marvel’, one among a number of visitor musicians on Murphy’s new album ‘Silver Shade’, which is scheduled for launch on ninth Could 2025 through Metropolis Data on 2xLP (with color variants), CD and digitally. Containing each ‘Swoon’ and ‘The Artroom Marvel’, the bodily and Bandcamp digital codecs may even embrace ‘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 to this point.”
PETER MURPHY | Silver Shade album cowl paintings
SILVER SHADE
TRACKLISTING
1 Swoon
2 Sizzling Roy
3 Sherpa
4 Silver Shade
5 The Artroom Marvel
6 That 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 | reside picture 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 to this point spawning fan favourites similar to ‘Cuts You Up’, ‘A Unusual Variety Of Love’, ‘All Night time Lengthy’, ‘Indigo Eyes’, ‘The Prince & Previous 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’, typically thought-about to be the very first gothic rock file. The band went on to file 4 seminal albums earlier than initially splitting in 1983, in addition to additional traditional singles similar to ‘Darkish Entries’, ‘The Ardour Of Lovers’, ‘Lagartija Nick’ and ‘She’s In Events’. Additionally they had a UK Prime 20 hit with a canopy model of ‘Ziggy Stardust’.
PETER MURPHY : reside picture by Chad Kelco
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