Run Fast Sleep Naked

LPA

1. Hear It Now
2. Harry Takes Drugs On The Weekend
3. Sanity
4. Sunlight
5. Some People
6. Yeah I Care

LPB

1. Novacaine and Coca Cola
2. Never No
3. Dangerous
4. Believe (Me)
5. Message You At Midnight

Nick Murphy's long-awaited sophomore full length album Run Fast Sleep Naked will be released on April 26 via Future Classic / [PIAS]. The Dave Harrington co-produced album is his first full length release since his widely praised 2014 debut Built on Glass (released as Chet Faker).

To make Run Fast Sleep Naked, Murphy spent four years traveling the world solo with a microphone in his suitcase, recording his vocal tracks in whichever spaces and environments most inspired him. During that time, the immersed himself in intense self-examination, a process aided by his reading of Joseph Campbell’s theories of the artist’s shaman-like role in modern society. With its penetrating songwriting and kaleidoscopic palette, Run Fast Sleep Naked is a hypnotically candid document of that searching, an album equally informed by constant questioning and steadily arriving at fragments of truth.

Although Murphy captured his vocal performances in spaces across the globe—including his grandmother’s living room, a studio in Tokyo, a vacation rental he shared with his family in New Zealand, and his own New York City apartment—the musical component to Run Fast, Sleep Naked was mainly recorded at Figure 8 in Brooklyn. And in sculpting the album’s shapeshifting sound, Murphy enlisted over 15 musicians and a full orchestra, embedding each song with unexpected textures and wildly varied tones.