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Overpowered | 
 enlarge | Artist: Roisin Murphy
Label: EMI
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 1062
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5099950709021
ASIN: B000W03O8I
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Tracks:
| • | Overpowered | | • | You Know Me Better | | • | Checkin' On Me | | • | Let Me Know | | • | Movie Star | | • | Primitive | | • | Footprints | | • | Dear Miami | | • | Cry Baby | | • | Tell Everybody | | • | Scarlet Ribbons | | • | Body Language | | • | Parallel Lives |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Following a lukewarm response to her Matthew-Herbert produced leftfield solo debut Ruby Blue," ex-Moloko singer Roisin Murphy has opted to go properly pop. Bringing together the best bits of Madonna, Giorgio Moroder and The Eurythmics, and mixing them up with acid house basslines and elastic disco grooves, Overpowered is a bid at crossover dance music stardom if ever there was one. It's a persuasive gambit too. By teaming up with trendy beatmakers like Bugz in the Attic and Groove Armada, Murphy has ensured a pumping, clean and highly individual soundtrack, over which she scatters her equally idiosyncratic lyrics and endearing vocal delivery. The Goldfrapp-esque "Movie Star," the wickedly insouciant "Footprints," the searing "You Know Me Better" and the title track all bristle with authentic dancefloor energy. There are some excellent slower tracks too--not least the dubby finale - and though not every song reaches for the sky, there's a cosmic dimension at work that puts Murphy way ahead of most of her dance-pop competitors. --Paul Sullivan
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 Crisp, clean and well produced. October 22, 2007
R. Cole (Surrey, England)
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
I have to admit that before seeing one of the tracks performed on MTV Dance, I was not aware of Roisin Murphy, so as far as this album goes I had no idea what to expect.
After about the first ten seconds of the first track (Overpowered) I knew I'd found something very special. As an audiophile I really appreciate music where the mastering engineer has thought long and hard about how to capture the artist and achieve an excellent recording. This is a prime example of an excellent recording; Roisin's vocals are super clean and cut clear above the mix (owing of course to her superb voice as well as the recording), the soundscape flourishes with detail and the whole sound hits hard and punchy without becoming too 'loud'.
As for the tracks, if you have a passion for dance, electronica and electro ballads, this is the album for you. All the songs are focused and lyrically sensible, well written and finely produced. Roisin's amazing voice shifts up and down the scale with ease and is really 'shown off' by these tracks. To present 'listenable' dance music is very tricky as it tends to be aimed at drunk clubbers, but this album can either drive a party, make for a good listening session or happily play in the background without becoming intrusive.
I love it, it's surprised me too, so much more than I thought it would be. Now all I have to do is buy her 2005 album too.
If you are a record producer / engineer, listen to this album and copy the recording/mastering style - it's genius!
From the primordial soup... October 30, 2007
Johnny Myo (London, UK)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Actually, comparing Overpowered to Roisin's solo debut, Ruby Blue, is a bit like comparing Moloko's polished, masterful Statues to the quirkier, more hit-and-miss Things To Make And Do - they are different projects and will appeal to different listeners in different ways.
I don't think this is her two fingers to those who ignored Ruby Blue (how many copies of Statues were sold, after all), but just the direction she wanted to go in, this time. Interesting that in interviews Roisin describes how Overpowered was "made in a pop way", rather than a "pop album," because they are mostly not pop songs, lyrically anyway. When they are, as on Let Me Know, they score the kind of direct hit they might have done had Curtis Mantronik worked with Moloko.
In fact, at time of writing, it's hard to fathom why this album isn't burning up the charts yet, considering the strength of the two singles that have already come off it. Other, lyrically diverting songs such as Primitive and Dear Miami really benefit from the slick "pop" treatment, but the one to really propel Overpowered into people's brains could be You Know Me Better, especially with some good mixes - although it's pretty much club-ready as it is. If only the clubs could still "break" an artist through. Oh well.
It's just a shame the two tracks reminiscent of Goldfrapp - Movie Star and Cry Baby - don't pursue a less marketable, and over-marketed, sound. But these are small quibbles - it still stuffs the creatively-blocked likes of Gwen Stefani. Five stars!
- A Classic Album - October 21, 2007
Naomi Lester (Louisiana, USA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Roisin Murphy has more quality in one song than most pop artists due in their whole discography. The woman is passionate about her music. She cares about what her album as a whole will sound like. She is not one of those artists that really focuses to make 3 good songs, and have the rest of the songs be sup bar. She makes every song in the mind of a single release, so all the songs you are listening to are single-worthy. I love artists that do this, she is the ultimate example. This will go down in history as one of the best dance-pop albums ever, you wait and see. Every song = to die for.
A Joy To Listen Too! March 12, 2008
mister superstar (Birmingham. UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Roisin Murphy is a name that some of you will know as that woman who sang in Moloko, or in most cases wont even know at all. to say that she is underrated would'nt even be the tip of the iceberg. It really amazes me how somebody with as much talent as her can be so unrecognised.
Anyway, onto the album. In a word, it is AMAZING. Like a fine wine, it matures with age, the more you listen the more you will fall in love. I've read many comments saying that you will think you have a favourite and then it will change. I found this to be very true indeed... these are songs to suit any mood. All beautifully structured with great lyrics (mostly) and super catchy hooks.
It is alot more thumping than "Ruby Blue", and has a much faster pace, quite reminiscent of works by Goldfrapp or Ladytron. Each song here has its own quirky charm, and while they are deffintely not pop songs as such, they have a strange mainstream sound to them, which is why its so baffling they arnt charting as well as they deserve too. Standout tracks for me would have to be "Dear Miami", "You Know Me Better" & "Cry Baby". It still amazes me how demos and b-sides like "Sunshine" and "Off & On" did'nt make the final cut.
In short, if you like disco, electronica or quirky alternative pop, this is a must have!
Overpowered November 21, 2007
G. Doulias (Greece,Athens)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
You will be overpowered definetely....I am obsessed with this cd...
Feeling sad? Put the disc in your cd-player and see how your mood is going to change in seconds...
The majority of the tracks are superb...12 to 13...
Its very difficult to find albums nowdays full of gems ..
Her voice is great, you can feel it...
BE AWARE...listen to the album VERY LOUD:) you will see what happens..are you already dancing???
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