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Róisín
Murphy

Five questions for an art-pop icon.
Words by Charles Shafaieh. Photograph by Nik Pate.

  • Music
  • Issue 49

Five questions for an art-pop icon.
Words by Charles Shafaieh. Photograph by Nik Pate.

For Róisín Murphy, unpredictability is a necessity. Amid the stultifying homogeneity of most contemporary pop and disco, the Irish-born artist’s catalog is a rich amalgam of musical styles and cultures, inspired as much by Iggy Pop and Grace Jones as by Laurie Anderson and J.G. Ballard.1 Her genre-melding predilections echo the diversity of revelers at Manchester and Sheffield clubs in the late 1980s and early ’90s, where she immersed herself at just 15 years old by staying put in Manchester, alone,

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This story is from Kinfolk Issue Forty-Nine

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