As Irish singer-songwriter Róisín Murphy returns with new song Incapable, she tells Nick Levine about a fertile new creative era – and why she’ll never tour with Moloko again
with him a few years before that. I go back to Parrot all the time, even with music I make with other people, just to talk to him about it. He’s quite a grounding force in my life, I guess, and a recurring guide. I just know that he knows what he’s talking about. And even though there’s something minimal and kind of brutal about his productions, much like Sheffield itself [where he comes from], he’s also like writing with the Bee Gees or something.
RM: No, I think my core values as an artist and creative person are in Ireland. I was brought up around music as a kid, because my uncle was a multi-instrumentalist and band leader. All summer long we’d be going to these all-dayer events that he did with his jazz band. My mother was obsessed with music, and my dad was a great singer.
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