{"id":3723,"date":"2020-06-19T12:35:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T11:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2020-06-19T12:35:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T11:35:14","slug":"penetrations-pauline-murray-announces-a-new-solo-album-and-shares-the-first-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=3723","title":{"rendered":"Penetration’s Pauline Murray announces a new solo album and shares the first single"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pauline Murray, frontwoman of iconic first-wave punks Penetration, today announced a new solo album and shared its first single, Secrets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Elemental, which is more in line with the music she produced in the early 80s with post-punk\/synthpop band The Invisible Girls, will be released on 25 September on Polestar Records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As singer in Penetration, Pauline was the voice behind one of punk’s most powerful anthems, Don’t Dictate, and their debut album, 1978’s Moving Targets, is regarded as a classic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This new set of songs is a shift away from the guitar-driven Penetration sound, and sees Pauline working with Steve Hopkins from The Invisible Girls on keyboards, and Roxy Music drummer Paul Thompson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also continues her long-term partnership with Penetration co-founder Robert Blamire, while current band members Paul Harvey, Steve Wallace and Ken Goodinson are also involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recorded in France during October 2016 and completed at their own Polestar Studios in Newcastle last year, Elemental contains 10 songs whose subject matter includes the power of nature, emotional ties, reflections, depression, missing persons and ancestors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lead single Secrets was written and originally recorded on a four-track Teac tape machine in the late 1980s, but the only copy that existed was on cassette, as the original tape was long lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was mixed to a cassette and left in a box for years,\u201d explains Pauline. \u201cWhen we were recording the new album, we remembered this track, found the cassette but couldn\u2019t find the original master tape. All the parts were there, and it sounded really good, but the recording was unusable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe decided to re-record it and tried to replicate the original arrangements, keyboard parts and sounds whilst maintaining the original atmosphere. It\u2019s amazing that something hidden away for so long can assert itself fully into the here and now. Like a secret being revealed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLyrically, it\u2019s about the pressure to conform to social perceptions and expectations, having to rely on body language and energy exchange to see what\u2019s really going on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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