Martha Skye Murphy announces forthcoming debut album, Um

“'Pick Yourself Up' is an ode to mistrust, Fred & Ginger, and clear days," says Murphy of the new single. The forthcoming debut album, Um, has been co-produced by Murphy along with Ethan P. Flynn, known for his work with David Byrne, FKA Twigs and Nia Archives.

“I wanted the album to feel like this constant tension between being in a very intimate domestic space, and then propelled into a far stranger environment that is difficult to situate,” she says of the album. “I want people to feel disoriented, erotically charged by the intimacy of a bedroom, then catapulted into a desert.”

“It’s taking a lot of the tenets of what I’ve been interested in before to another level,” she says. “Having the scope of an album has meant I can push it all further, the wanting to take the listener on a journey, push endurance levels, and toy with the tensions between fictional and factual spaces.”

It was on 2021’s acclaimed triptych of singles, "Stuck", "Found Out" and "Concrete" for instance, that she explored the idea that what a piece of art leaves out is more evocative than what’s present. On 2018’s Heroides, her debut EP based on Ovid’s poems about aggrieved ancient Greek heroines, she first demonstrated her ability to inhabit a series of other personalities through her voice.

Tracklist:

1. First Day
2. Need (feat. Roy Montgomery)
3. Pick Yourself Up
4. Theme Parks
5. Spraycan
6. Call Me Back
7. Kind
8. The Words
9. Dust Yourself Off
10. IRL
11. Forgive (feat. Claire Rousay)