When music and the cosmos collide. But there was a definite mindset to make something concise." "Statues does what much of the best disco and pop does: combining extreme emotions with surging, propulsive music to create something transcendent and celebratory. You take on an epic project and you're bound to have a crisis of confidence" Statues is the first Moloko album to simply consist of ten tracks; its predecessors have been unruly children, each a cornucopia of ideas spilling over into sketches and interludes. Nothing can come close Nothing can come close Nothing can come close To this familiar feeling Roisin: "With every record you make, there are points during the making of it when you don't know whether it's going to get finished or whether it's any good - I've had that with every record I've made with Mark. Moloko "Familiar Feeling": Nothing can come close I never doubted it What's for you will not pass you by I never questioned i... Moloko - Familiar Feeling Lyrics | AZLyrics.com A B C D E F G H I … "We all felt it should be allowed to be what it is. To be in the studio and have that playing back at you after two weeks of arranging strings was like going to the best gig we've ever been to. Dublin-born Roisin Murphy's early heroines were Kim Gordon and Kim Deal, so it was a little off-putting that her parents told her she had a lovely voice - just like Elaine Paige. The single will be released on CD, 12" vinyl and DVD. Statues also represents a change in their way of working. They met at a party in Sheffield and, for obvious reasons, called their subsequent debut album Do You Like My Tight Sweater?. It was released … "Familiar Feeling" is a song by English-Irish electronica duo Moloko. Following the release of her critically-acclaimed fourth album 'What's Your Pleasure? The orchestrations were so huge that it meant a temporary move for the band - symphonic closer 'Over & Over' and 'Statues' were recorded at Air studios because they couldn't fit everyone in to their London space. Unsurprisingly, these ten songs also contain Roisin's most direct and emotionally honest lyrics - a world away from the stylised hide-and-seek of Tight Sweater.

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First single 'Familiar Feelings' opens with fragile acoustics and a shiver of strings, builds over an irresistible bassline and reaches flashover in an orchestral whirl. "Up to now," Mark confirms, "we would make a record without trying to make a plan to shape it. Begun in 1994 and released in 1995, …Tight Sweater was both futuristic and out of time; a dayglo confection of warped funk, alien sensuality and wicked humour. The DVD features a photo gallery and video excerpts from 4 of Moloko's old videos; Indigo, Pure Pleasure Seeker, Time is now and Dominoid.It seems appropriate that the curious story of Moloko begins - almost a decade ago - with a salacious enquiry.

It's a triumph of believing in something enough to ride over all that." Me and Roisin and Eddie just sat there giggling - like, 'Blimey, have we made that?'" What is most important is that they chose to pursue their creative partnership and that Statues is a focussed, direct and uplifting album. Mark: "In a way, the whole process of making it was the end of a chapter in our relationship and the start of another. Now, I know myself better. I was 19 when I made Tight Sweater, and I knew I was pretending, but if I tried not to, I'd still be pretending. The 12" also carries Robbie Rivera's Dark & Sexy Mix. It's a story of love, yearning and wild dance abandon, set in an anonymous all-nighter and starring Roisin Murphy with British actor Paddy Considine (A Room For Romeo Brass, The Last Resort). Lyrics to 'Familiar Feeling' by Moloko. "Mark worked closely with long-time collaborator Eddie Stevens, who co-wrote and scored spectacular arrangements for brass and strings. ', Jessie Ware drops a dramatic video for her song 'The Kill'. A bewitching combination of surging strings and hypnotic bass, the track is accompanied by an outstanding Northern Soul-styled video shot by long-time Moloko collaborator Elaine Constantine. In many ways, it's 'Forever More' that epitomises the album's achievements: a pure testament to the peak hour dance frenzy, it's surely a dance floor classic in the making.