Róisín Murphy's Ruby Blue Comes to U.S.

Self-limitation is where it's at. Not unlike filmmaker Lars von Trier's Dogme 95 principles or Jack White's "laundry is easier when only you have two colors to separate" doctrine, producer Matthew Herbert records material following his self-penned "Personal Contract for the Composition Of Music (Incorporating the Manifesto of Mistakes)."

Such long-winded formalism may be easy to sneer at (I'm kinda doing it right now, actually), but his production can't be argued with. Herbert's last collaboration yielded a Pitchfork 8.4 review and landed on Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2005 list: Róisín Murphy's Ruby Blue. The jazz-inflected dance record features the dusky sighs of Murphy, vocalist for trip-hop casualties Moloko, and now has a U.S. distributor. drops today, April 25, courtesy of the Echo label.

Hello, Ruby Tuesday:

01 Leaving the City
02 Sinking Feeling
03 Night of the Dancing Flame
04 Through Time
05 Sow Into You
06 Dear Diary
07 If We're in Love
08 Ramalama (Bang Bang)
09 Ruby Blue
10 Off on It
11 Prelude to Love in the Making
12 The Closing of the Door

* Róisín Murphy:

Posted by Quanah Humphreys on Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 12:00am