New Album Out Now via Metropolis
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Post-punk’s quintessential icon PETER MURPHY has delivered SILVER SHADE, his universally-hailed latest album, which is released today, May 9, 2025 via Metropolis Records on 2xLP, CD and digitally. Majestic and ornate, his tenth studio album was produced by YOUTH (Pink Floyd, Killing Joke, The Orb, Paul McCartney “The Firemen,” Faith No More, Alien Sex Fiend, Siouxsie and the Banshees) at Youth’s studio in Spain and is the second album that the pair have worked on together since 2014’s Lion. A symbiotic relationship born of artistic collaboration, Silver Shade is, as he recently attested, “as powerful as any of my work to date.”

Hailed on both sides of the Atlantic as one of his finest albums to date, Silver Shade has been revered as “a deliciously bubbling cauldron seasoned with ladles of Scott Walker melodrama and a generous pinch of Bowie-inspired balladry” (UNCUT) and “all high drama, dark figures and wild impulses. Hugely entertaining, and when Murphy sings ‘this is the meaning of my life’, you don’t doubt it for a second” (MOJO). In the U.S., GOLDMINE says in their current cover story, that “there are musical elements that Silver Shade owns that are unadulteratedly indisputable: Every song is unique yet extremely cohesive to one body of work, and there is something to be revered by every era of Peter Murphy fan. The artist’s vocal performance here is just as magnificent as it was 45 years ago … maybe even better.” SPIN adds, “Silver Shade is what we can all hope to be at 67: imperfect, maybe expected, but also loud, lively, and unapologetically ourselves. By embracing an outlook only earned by age, Peter Murphy is still finding new shades four decades into his illustrious career.”

Having issued “Let The Flowers Grow” (a surprise duet with Boy George) as a standalone single in late 2024 (it is included as a bonus track), Murphy continued with the majestic synth-punk/funk hybrid “Swoon” and the stridently epic “The Artroom Wonder” (featuring Justin Chancellor of Tool).

The album’s title song features another guest vocal contribution from Reznor, while Danny Carey of Tool plays drums. “’Silver Shade’ captures the stillness after the storm; haunted, reflective and raw,” explains Murphy. “It is about a King letting go of his slaves. It’s not about nostalgia or reinvention, but quiet reckoning.”

Peter Murphy’s solo career began in 1986 with the release of Should The World Fail To Fall Apart and continues to this day. His nine previous albums have spawned such decisive singles as “All Night Long,” “Indigo Eyes,” “Cuts You Up,” “Strange Kind of Love,” “The Scarlet Thing In You,” “Seesaw Sway,” and “I Am My Own Name.” First emerging from the British punk and rock underground in the late ‘70s, Murphy (along with bandmates Daniel Ash, David J and Kevin Haskins) fronted the groundbreaking iconic rock band Bauhaus which spawned four iconoclastic and ultra-seminal albums as well as keystone singles “She’s In Parties,” “Dark Entries,” “The Passion of Lovers,” “Silent Hedges,” and, of course, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” before disbanding in 1983 with a handful of reunions since then. SILVER SHADE is released today, May 9, 2025 via Metropolis Records.

SILVER SHADE tracklisting Swoon  Hot Roy Sherpa Silver Shade The Artroom Wonder Meaning Of My Life Xavier New Boy Cochita Is Lame Soothsayer Time Waits Sailmaker’s Charm Let The Flowers Grow (w/ Boy George) ** Bonus Track**

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