Peter Murphy has unveiled another track off his new album “Silver Shade”, The Bauhaus frontman new album arrives on May 9th, and he’s given us another early taste with “The Artroom Wonder,” which features TOOL bassist Justin Chancellor. It’s another dark, driving slice of synth-funk, and Murphy says it’s “an echo from my fourth year at senior school. Daniel Ash and I are listening to the mysterious sixth-year cool intelligentsia that have gathered in the artroom. We have dared to enter their conclave, and the music coming from it was intriguing. We discover that the song being played is ‘The Bewlay Brothers,’ highly intelligent, mystical and sensual, with the singer’s voice as seductive as anyone I’d ever heard.”
“‘The Artroom Wonder’” 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),” Murphy adds. “The final verse celebrates my own self-advancing and position on this.”
“Silver Shade” was produced by Youth of Killing Joke, and is due out on May 9th via Metropolis Records.
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