Robb Murphy

I got this cd last week from an artist I had never heard of before; Robb Murphy, but only got round to listening to it today. It will now, most likely be on repeat throughout the weekend to the extent of near overload. 'Love in Abundance' is the new ‘Cannon Ball’ or ‘Better’ - It is just sublime. Just press play and ‘Love in Abundance’ may take you back to that moment when you first discovered Tom Baxter or Damien Rice. And surely it is time we swooned over a new Singer Songwriter with heart rendering songs that reach out and touch you instantly.

Robb Murphy’s inimitable style derives from his background as a producer/engineer. Retaining all the hallmarks that separates him from his contemporaries in the singer-songwriter world – he has the creativity, the passion, the raw emotion and the haunting beauty that great singer songwriters are made of. 

'Love and abundance' builds from nothing to a crescendo of devastatingly beauty sung straight from the heart. It contains a pop folk flavor with a touch Irish heritage.

Armed with a distinctive voice that demands the repeat button, which is only emboldened by an uncanny lyrical ability, Robb Murphy’s debut Single ‘Love In Abundance’ is a must for fans of acoustic pop ballads.

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You may have heard of And So I Watch You From Afar.. you may have not (if you were hiding under a rock for the last few years that is..) Either way, what you are about to feast your ears upon will bear no resemblance to the guitar fueled, loud antics of ASIWYFA. Despite the fact that Tony Wright wrote most of the songs from the highly successful aforementioned instrumental outfit, his soft soundings here in VerseChorusVerse are remarkably nothing remotely likened to his previous works.

Here we see the artist stripped back and laid bare. Imagine Neil Young in his solo years when he set out to embark on his own accord and vision and this is what you will find here; a hidden gem with the debris that prevented it from shining, becoming suddenly revealed.

Wright will now endeavour on his own path and we are eager to hear exactly where it will lead.

One word describes this debut EP: beautiful.


One Fine Day is a feast for the ears that would easily sit comfortably following a Bon Iver track on your Ipod. You can almost feel the leaves of Autumn on your feet on Into the Autumn ( it also brings you close to Tom Petty's Into The Great Wide Open) and The Accused & Thrown Away  are resonant of the excitement I felt when I first listened to Villagers debut album. There is something very special going on here. It won't be too long before everyone else follows pursuit.