Not long after popping into the Guardian’s London office to answer reader-submitted questions in a live webchat, electropop singer and songwriter Róisín Murphy is back. This time round, she’s armed with the self-directed visuals for single Evil Eyes, off her recent album Hairless Toys.
Appearing both behind and in front of the lens, Murphy gives life to one of the characters she created on Hairless Toys. Here she plays a housewife, trapped in retro-suburban mundanity and spiralling towards mental illness – all the while soundtracked by the lurching and menacing groove of Evil Eyes’ disco-laced funk.
“This character I have created goes mad,” Murphy said of the video’s protagonist she portrays. “Nothing about the visual aesthetic is ‘rock’n’roll’, and yet there is plenty of rebellion going on. I find it interesting to create videos that don’t try to look like pop videos at all. Hopefully, this will be a mysterious and disorientating experience for the viewer.”
Watch our premiere of Evil Eyes below, and let us know what you make of it.
Hairless Toys is out now on Play It Again Sam, and Evil Eyes is due out as a single on 31 July.
