Hairless Toys | Loppylugs

Submitted by Richard Norbury on 1 November 2015 - 10:59pm

Nominations had to be from the Mercury Music Prize 2015 short list

Cover:

Artist:

Róisín Murphy

album-ID:

a_177

Nationality:

Ireland

Year:

2 015

Release-year:

0000

Num-of-tracks:

Track-listing:

Gone Fishing*Evil Eyes*Exploitation*Uninvited Guest*Exile*House Of Glass*Hairless Toys (Gotta Hurt)*Unputdownable

Length-in-mins:

Nominator:

Bean

meeting-ID:

m_68

Now-num:

2 015

Spotify-URL:

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Short-title:

hairlessToys

nominator-ID:

u_14

Meeting-date:

Monday, 7 March 2016

MusicBrainz-URL:

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Wikipedia-URL:

Hairless_Toys

Spotify-link-type:

album

Metacritic-URL:

hairless-toys/roisin-murphy

Discogs-URL:

Róisín-Murphy-Hairless-Toys/master/833746

Allmusic-URL:

hairless-toys-mw0002835136

rdio-URL:

Róisín_Murphy/album/Hairless_Toys

Musixmatch-URL:

Róisín-Murphy/Hairless-Toys

Pitchfork-URL:

20518-hairless-toys

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reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

I am not a doctor

2-4-5

3

I have been a fan since back in the day, so I had high expectations for this one and, if I’m honest, I have been a little disappointed.

It’s always interesting the idea of duo with a personable vocalist and nerdy multi-instrumentalist in the background, doing all the work and hiding from the spotlight. That was the case in Moloko and it’s surprising to me how, more often than not it’s the person who’s fronting the bad who doesn't appear to be doing that much, who goes on to do the interesting stuff when the band splits. All the money and backing goes into the face of the band, I guess, and the apparent brains behind the operation rarely comes through.

Anyway, back to this album, the pieces do have a nice, sharp production, well put together and varied and everything but there is scarcely any standout moments and it largely just passes by without exciting me or me really even noticing. Evil Eyes is probably the one that comes closet to matching my expectations, it has got that sort of trademark slightly manic syncopation and skew-whiff-ness. But overall there aren't the believable moving moments and certainly not the consistency of songwriting that I enjoyed on her two previous solo efforts. A bit of a let down for me this one, truth be told.
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reviewed by

Richard Norbury
4

reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

Tear your hair out painful

1-3-4-6

I find this virtually unlistenable. It makes me want to tear my hair out.