Overpowered [Import]

Róisín Murphy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 23, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• ASIN: B000UN1CWM
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #200,078 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Overpowered

2. You Know Me Better

3. Checkin' on Me

4. Let Me Know

5. Movie Star

6. Primitive

7. Footprints

8. Dear Miami

9. Cry Baby

10. Tell Everybody

11. Scarlet Ribbons

12. Body Language [*]

13. Parallel Lives [*]

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.co.uk

Following a lukewarm response to her Matthew-Herbert produced left-field solo debut Ruby Blue, ex-Moloko singer Róisín Murphy has opted to go properly pop. Bringing together the best bits of Madonna, Giorgio Moroder, and the Eurythmics, and mixing them up with acid house basslines and elastic disco grooves, Overpowered is a bid at crossover dance music stardom if ever there was one. It’s a persuasive gambit too. By teaming up with trendy beatmakers like Bugz in the Attic and Groove Armada, Murphy has ensured a pumping, clean, and highly individual soundtrack, over which she scatters her equally idiosyncratic lyrics and endearing vocal delivery. The Goldfrapp-esque "Movie Star," the wickedly insouciant "Footprints," the searing "You Know Me Better," and the title track all bristle with authentic dance-floor energy. There are some excellent slower tracks too--not least the dubby finale--and though not every song reaches for the sky, there’s a cosmic dimension at work that puts Murphy way ahead of most of her dance-pop competitors. --Paul Sullivan

Product Description

2007 sophomore album from R¢is¡n Murphy, former lead vocalist for Moloko. A heady mix of electronic dance anthems, soul-stirring Pop songs, deep, dark Funk and quirky lyrical genius, Overpowered is a thrilling and contemporary marriage of edgy Pop and irresistible Disco. R¢is¡n co-wrote and co-produced the entire album, bringing her own vision and focus to these songs whilst working with a variety of producers, writers and mixers to create what is without doubt her finest record; unpredictable, creative, inventive, exciting and hugely accessible. Working with the likes of Seiji, Andy Cato (Groove Armada), Jimmy Douglass, Ill Factor, and Parrot & Dean of All Seeing I / I Monster, R¢is¡n has brought her love of the dance floor right to the very heart of the album. This is one of the albums of the year - a breathtaking modern classic. Features the singles 'Let Me Know' and 'Overpowered'. EMI.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From the primordial soup..., November 13, 2007

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Johnny Myo (London, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Overpowered (Audio CD)

Comparing Overpowered to Roisin's solo début, Ruby Blue, is a bit like comparing Moloko's polished, masterful Statues to the quirkier, more hit-and-miss Things To Make And Do - they are different projects and will appeal to different listeners in different ways.
I don't think this is her two fingers to those who ignored Ruby Blue (how many copies of Statues were sold, after all?), but just the direction she wanted to go in, this time. Interesting that in interviews Roisin describes how Overpowered was "made in a pop way", rather than a "pop album," because they are mostly not pop songs, lyrically anyway. When they are, as on Let Me Know, they score the kind of direct hit they might have done had Curtis Mantronik worked with Moloko.
In fact, at time of writing, it's hard to fathom why this album isn't burning up the charts yet, considering the strength of the two singles that have already come off it. Other, lyrically diverting songs such as Primitive and Dear Miami really benefit from the slick "pop" treatment, but the one to really propel Overpowered into people's brains could be You Know Me Better - with it's tough, staccato vocal and conventional, insistent chorus concealing a quite complex emotional position. Some good mixes could really help here - although it's pretty much club-ready as it is. If only the clubs could still "break" an artist through. Oh well.
On repeated listening, some of the other songs stand out too. Scarlet Ribbons, an observation on paternal love set in a lovers' rock arrangement, and the album's closer, Parallel Lives, sound more essential with each play.
For those interested in such details, the whole CD is also expertly engineered to bring the very best out of the vocal. It's just a shame the two tracks reminiscent of Goldfrapp - Movie Star and Cry Baby - don't pursue a sound that's less over-marketed, here in the UK. But these are small quibbles - it still stuffs the (currently) creatively-constipated likes of Gwen Stefani. I reckon this is a contender for album of the year, but I really can't choose between this and Ultra Naté's Grime, Silk, Thunder.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Even Better Than Ruby Blue, October 17, 2007

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Roland A. Velasquez "rollyant" (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Overpowered (Audio CD)

I guess it's a bit unfair to compare this one to her first solo album, RUBY BLUE. They are completely different in sound and feeling. RUBY BLUE was very experimental. OVERPOWERED is straight up dance/pop with a very late 80's dance feel to it. Both are seasoned with the familiar Moloko sound, which was Roisin's band before she went solo.
I love every track on OVERPOWERED. If you like Goldfrapp, you'll also like Moloko/Roisin Murphy. You should also purchase THINGS TO MAKE AND DO and STATUES by Moloko.

My favorites tracks are:
Overpowered
You Know Me Better
Let Me Know
Movie Star
Primitive (one of the best)
Tell Everybody
Scarlet Ribbon
I highly recommend Roisin Murphy albums to everyone! I'm not sure when this one will be released in the States, but I suggest getting it now. You won't regret it.
I also suggest that you find the B-Sides and unreleased tracks from this CD. Some of these are even better than some of what's been released on OVERPOWERED.
Pandora (love this one!)
Modern Timing
Sunshine
Off and On
Parallel Lives
Find these songs if you can!

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Overpowers you!!, October 15, 2007

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Nse Ette (Lagos, Nigeria) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Overpowered (Audio CD)

Track listing for Róisín Murphy's sophomore disc is as follows:

1. "Overpowered" (Róisín Murphy/Paul Dolby/Mike Patto) - 5:07
2. "You Know Me Better" (Róisín Murphy/Andy Cato) - 4:17
3. "Checkin' on Me" (Murphy/Ivan Coralliza/Jimmy Douglas/Iajuana Pigram) - 4:39
4. "Let Me Know" (Murphy/Cato) - 5:09
5. "Movie Star" (Murphy) - 4:01
6. "Primitive" (Murphy/Coralliza) - 4:50
7. "Footprints" (Murphy/Mark de Clive-Lowe/Dolby) - 3:37
8. "Dear Miami" (Murphy/Dolby/Patto) - 3:40
9. "Cry Baby" (Murphy/Michael Ward/Dean Honer/Richard Barnett) - 5:54
10. "Tell Everybody" (Murphy/Coralliza/Douglas/Pigram) - 3:51
11. "Scarlet Ribbons" (Murphy/Ward/Honer/Barnett) - 5:35
12. "Body Language" (Murphy/Cato) - 4:39
13. "Parallel Lives" (Murphy/Richard Phillips) - 4:22
14. "Pandora" (Murphy/Richard Phillips) (iTunes bonus track) - 3:56

Róisín Murphy was the lead vocalist with UK trip hop/electronica duo Moloko, and "Overpowered" is her second solo release, following 2005's Ruby Blue. Think Goldfrapp, or "Confessions on a dancefloor" era Madonna and you get the picture.

It is one of the best dance/pop albums of the year, comprising bubbling, synth heavy dance tracks like the title track "Overpowered", "You know me better", and (official) lead off single, the eighties sounding "Let me know", the quirky pop of "Checkin' on me", "Primitive", and "Footprints", and slowing things down, the eerie dub-sounding "Scarlet ribbons".

Look out for the excellent bonus track "Off and on". Pop music the way it should be; fun!!