Roisin Murphy’s Disco Machine

After trying periods in history, we bounce back stronger and let loose. An escape from dark chaos is essential. Post the last pandemic, the sheiks and flappers raged hard. During and after the Vietnam War era, drugs, sex, and funk-filled disco provided an alternate reality. This shit storm we’re treading through warrants a 72 hour hedonistic bender. My vice of choice will be music.

Roisin Machine, the 5th record from Irish experimental diva Roisin Murphy will fuel my celebratory moment. 10 upbeat, house meets disco bangers. From “Narcissus”, with its hypnotic groove, staccato strings, and Roisin’s mischievous delivery, the sweaty lust is inevitable as you blatantly grind on the neon dance floor. The funk filled “Incapable” is house heaven as it builds and creates space to move, feel, and accelerate your bender into overdrive.

Roisin tells the Sydney Morning Herald why she could make history with this sultry, you won’t be able to sit still record:

“With Machine I was looking for subversion, danger,” she says. “I was really inspired by post-punk, vintage magazines and the work of photographer Derek Ridgers and curator Kim Terrell. I was really interested, visually, in these women who are really subversive, women who don’t give a f—. We need some of that.”

Depending on what stimulant you’re on, or your club endurance, the Deluxe Version features extended mixes of six of Machine’s monsters. Your Albums of the Year best be written in pencil. Because this disco diva strutted in front of other records, shimmied ever so boldly, and explosively kicked those albums outta the spotlight and back where they belong: standing awestruck around the perimeter of disco ball lit dance floor.