Overpowered [Import]

Róisín Murphy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 23, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI INT'L
• ASIN: B000W03O8I
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #86,325 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. Primitiv

7. Footprints

8. Dear Miami

9. Cry Baby

10. Tell Everybody

11. Scarlet Ribbons

12. Body Language (Bonus Track)

13. Parallel Lives (Bonus Track)

Editorial Reviews

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

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Contagiously shiny disco-pop., August 10, 2008

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Philly in New York - See all my reviews

This review is from: Overpowered (Audio CD)

Róisín Murphy, once the former Moloko frontwoman in dance-pop act Moloko, is bracingly unpredictable.
Following up her underperforming debut "Ruby Blue", her profoundly offbeat album with electronic experimentalist Matthew Herbert , she is back with her second solo album.
Now signed to EMI, she's made her most coherent album yet.
Murphy's songwriting appears to be stronger than ever with a consistent style and sound emerging throughout.
She puts this assured sense of purpose, in part, down to a recent obsession with old disco and house music.
In her own words she wanted "Overpowered" to be an album to find a link between that music and what she could achieve in a modern way.
Combining her lively songwriting ability with the contributions of a host of underground house music talent, she creates eleven songs ripe for chart success, showing contagiously shiny disco-pop.
Although she sometimes sounds like prime-time Madonna, she fuses this with an acid house energy, while her lyrics are a million miles from 'the material girl'.
The opening lines of the album, "Your data, my data/ The chromosomes match", on the ebullient "Overpowered", lead into a chorus about "oxytoxins flowing ever into my brain", while the wonderful slowie, "Dear Miami", appears to be an elegy for that city.
Somehow this lyrical eccentricity makes the thoroughly catchy tunes on offer all the more appealing.
Whether indulging in '80s funk, club bangers or rocking electroclash, Róisín allows no creative slack.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Over-Prowess, December 19, 2007

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Dogville (Sunny Island) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Overpowered (Audio CD)

Whatever that has been said about Overpowered and Roisin Murphy is true and her second solo album after Moloko remains as the most underrated gem of 2007. Period.

While Kylie's X brings on the big electro-clash beats, Rosin Murphy's Overpowered is an extremely fitting tribute to the late 80's/early 90's dancefloor with late night house grooves and matching electro synths to form a segue of formidable dance numbers. Working with Bugz in the Attic and Andy Cato of Groove Armada, the music on Overpowered ranges from straight-out dance anthems (You Know Me Better, Dear Miami, Cry Baby) to synth-heavy electro (Overpowered, Movie Star) and heady trip hop (Primitive, Scarlet Ribbons). And thanks to a keen ear on Grey's Anatomy, these songs have been featured in the show on a few occasions.

There's more than enough on Overpowered to keep you on replay and tapping your feet away on the dance floor. One of 2007's best! (A)

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Trippy happy music, September 10, 2009

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J. Ang (Singapore) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Overpowered (Audio CD)

What a guilty 'synth' pleasure this album is... Retro-disco at its best... Reminds you about everything that was fabulous and 'chic' in the 80s - like big hair and shoulder pads! From the moment I saw Roisin strutting in the diner with so much sass and irony in the video for 'Let Me Know', I knew I was sold!