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NICK MURPHY RELEASES, MISSING LINK, A NEW COLLECTION OF TRACKS BRIDGING THE SONIC SHIFT BETWEEN CHET FAKER AND NICK MURPHY

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NICK MURPHY RELEASES, MISSING LINK, A NEW COLLECTION OF TRACKS  BRIDGING THE SONIC SHIFT BETWEEN CHET FAKER AND NICK MURPHY

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NORTH AMERICAN TOUR ANNOUNCED, INCLUDING THREE CANADIAN DATES 12 MAY (TORONTO, ON) – New York-based Australian producer & musician Nick Murphy has announced Missing Link, a new collection of tracks that bridge the sonic shift between Chet Faker and Nick Murphy. The 5-song EP is out today via Downtown Records / Interscope / Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company. Murphy will bring his dynamic live show to stages across the globe through the end of the year by annoucing an extensive world tour that features headline shows in North America, Australia, Europe and U.S. Murphy will also perform an exclusive residency at Sydney Opera House for Vivid LIVE next month. For tour details and to purchase tickets, visit http://missing.li/nk.  Missing Link opens with the moody first single “Your Time”, an older recording featuring production from KAYTRANADA that just premiered as a World Record on Zane Lowe’s Beats1 show. Listen to the track and interview with Lowe here. The EP moves through Murphy’s sound evolution from the voiceless distortion of “Bye” to the grand escalating track “Forget About Me”—also premiered today on Lowe’s show—and “Weak Education”, the dance-influenced track. It’s the sound of Murphy exhaling. The EP is Murphy’s first release since announcing last fall that he’ll record and perform under his given name and step away from his Chet Faker moniker. “Chet Faker was me trying to prove something to myself,” says Murphy. “But my tastes are pretty dynamic and I realized I’ve spent time resisting that. Now I want to put everything in. It’s not conceptual anymore. It’s just me, and it made sense to show that in a name. It feels like a rediscovery.” After announcing the name change last fall and releasing two well-received tracks—“Fear Less” and “Stop Me (Stop You)”—he notes, “This huge wave came out and I broadened the framework. Instead of having to make finished tracks, I could just explore. That felt like the missing link between where I was and where I’m going now.” The Missing Link EP is a snapshot of that wave in motion. It is the ‘missing link’ between who he was as an artist and what’s next for him. Murphy also recently released a short video interview with collaborator Dave Harrington where he discusses the name change, creating his new music and more – view HERE.

The trailer for the Missing Link EP, co-directed by Murphy and New York-based Australian filmmaker and musician Johann Rashid, was released last week and teases some of the EP’s forthcoming visual accompaniment. Watch the trailer HERE. MISSING LINK TRACK LISTING
  1. Your Time (produced by KAYTRANADA)
  2. Bye
  3. I'm Ready
  4. Forget About Me
  5. Weak Education
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Photo by Tyler Mitchell

NICK MURPHY CANADIAN TOUR DATES Sep 22 Montreal, QC - Le Métropolis Sep 25 Toronto, ON - Danforth Music Hall Oct 09 Vancouver, BC - The Vogue Theatre  

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