Pauline Murray Announces New Solo Album & Reveals ‘Secrets’

Pauline Murray (Penetration / Pauline Murray And The Invisible Girls) will release her third solo full length “Elemental” on the 25th September. Recorded in France during October 2016 and completed at Polestar Studios in 2019, the album continues her long-term partnership with Robert Blamire and also features members of Penetration, Pauline Murray And The Invisible Girls and Roxy Music. You can hear the first results today on Pauline Murray‘s new single ‘Secrets’ that was originally written and recorded in the late 1980’s.

You can pre-order ‘Elemental‘ on CD & Vinyl and exclusive merch here.

You can view the video for ‘Secrets’ and read more about ‘Elemental‘ below

“It was mixed to a cassette and left in a box for years, when we were recording the new album, we remembered this track, found the cassette but couldn’t find the original master tape. All the parts were there, and it sounded really good, but the recording was unusable. We decided to re-record it and tried to replicate the original arrangements, keyboard parts and sounds whilst maintaining the original atmosphere. It’s amazing that something hidden away for so long can assert itself fully into the here and now. Like a secret being revealed.”

“Lyrically, it’s about the pressure to conform to social perceptions and expectations, having to rely on body language and energy exchange to see what’s really going on. The idea for the video ties in with my four paintings featured on the album sleeve. It reflects the lyrics – I’m putting on a face to hide. A single camera was set up in a dark room lit only with a make-up mirror. I mixed the paints beforehand and did the face painting in a single take. The Volvo footage was shot around the same time that the song was written. We only found it recently whilst digitising some old VHS tapes. The performance video was shot earlier this year at Polestar Studios. Rob (Blamire) edited it all together.”

“As a 15-year-old, I was a big Roxy Music fan, I would never have thought that their drummer Paul Thompson who played on all those fantastic records would be playing on my album all those years later. As a 15-year-old fan, I wouldn’t even have envisaged making music myself! Paul came into our studios with Lindisfarne and we plucked up the courage to ask him to play on some of the tracks. It was really exciting when he agreed and an absolute buzz to hear him playing on the songs.”

Pauline Murray