Having issued "Let The Flowers Grow" (a surprise duet with Boy George) as a standalone single in late 2024, original post-punk icon Peter Murphy followed it in mid-February with "Swoon", a majestic slice of synth-punk/funk that also served as a perfect Valentine's Day gift for his fans.
Now, "The Artroom Wonder" is available as a brand new single, with Murphy explaining its genesis as "an echo from my 4th year at senior school. Daniel Ash [former Bauhaus bandmate] and I are listening to the mysterious 6th-year cool intelligentsia that have gathered in the artroom. We have dared to enter their conclave, and the music coming from it is intriguing. We discover that the song being played is [David Bowie's] "The Bewlay Brothers", highly intelligent, mystical and sensual, with the singer's voice as seductive as anyone I'd ever heard".
Describing the song, he continues: "It has a surreal approach, telling the story in my typical oblique style, including the description of a lowdown that leads into an evocation of the perfected human being, the Prophet Muhammad (may peace be upon him). The final verse celebrates my own self-advancing and position on this".
Justin Chancellor of Tool plays bass guitar on "The Artroom Wonder", one of several guest musicians on Murphy's forthcoming full-length Silver Shade, set for release on 9 May via Metropolis Records on 2xLP (with colour variants), CD and digitally. Containing both "Swoon" and "The Artroom Wonder", the physical and Bandcamp digital formats will also include "Let The Flowers Grow" as a bonus track.
Produced by Youth (Pink Floyd, The Verve, Crowded House, as well as a member of Killing Joke, The Orb, and The Firemen) at his studio in Spain, Silver Shade is Murphy's tenth studio album and a long-awaited follow-up to Lion, which the pair worked on together a decade ago. A symbiotic relationship born of artistic collaboration, Murphy states that "this new album is as powerful as any of my work to date".
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PETER MURPHY - Drops Another Track From Silver Shade
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