Hairless Toys

about this album

Hairless Toys is the third solo studio album by Irish recording artist Róisín Murphy, released on 8 May 2015 by Play It Again Sam. It is Murphy's first full-length release since 2007's Overpowered. The album was nominated for the 2015 Mercury Music Prize. The announcement of the album was accompanied by a stream of the first track, "Gone Fishing", which Murphy confirmed was inspired by the 1990 documentary film Paris Is Burning. A four-minute edit of "Exploitation" was later issued as the first single, with a music video directed by Murphy herself released on 13 April 2015. Murphy commented that the song is about "selling out, manipulation and exploitation within creative work and in a relationship." Murphy later explained that the song "came from being a bit wry, a bit ironic. It's got a bit of a twinkle in its eye. It's not to be taken too seriously." Speaking about the record, Murphy wrote: "There was a desire to make an unquestionably refined record. It’s multi layered, electronic and live instrumentation, musically it goes to places most pop music never does. It’s emotionally bare and laced with irony. I definitely didn’t set out to make something unique per-se but it really is like nothing you’ve ever heard before. So it’s impossible to describe except to say..it’s heartfelt." Murphy directed accompanying music videos for the singles "Exploitation", "Evil Eyes", "Unputdownable" and "House of Glass". Harriet Gibsone of The Guardian found "Gone Fishing" contains "It

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