# MURPHNICK Releases New Expanded Digital Edition Of 2023’s Acclaimed Album ‘Strange Ride’

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- Published: 2024-01-22T12:30:00-06:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

### **MURPHNICK – AKA NICK MURPHY – RELEASES NEW EXPANDED DIGITAL EDITION OF 2023’S ACCLAIMED ALBUM _‘STRANGE RIDE’ _**

#### **THE NEW EDITION OF THE ALBUM WILL BE LAUNCHED SATURDAY FEBRUARY 3 AT THE MERRI CREEK TAVERN**

#### **NEW SINGLE FROM _STRANGE RIDE_, THE GORGEOUSLY JANGLING “CRY TEARS”, OUT NOW**

#### **BELOVED MELBOURNE MUSICIAN AND FORMER CO-SINGER/SONGWRITER FOR ’90S DARLING THE ANYONES, NICK MURPHY WAS FORCED TO CHANGE HIS PROFESSIONAL NAME FOR REASONS HINTED AT IN THE ALBUM’S FIRST SINGLE “FAKIN IT”**

**Murphnick** – aka Nick Murphy, former co-singer/songwriter with ’90s Melbourne
darlings **The Anyones **– has today released an **expanded digital edition** of
his wonderful 2023 album **_Strange Ride_**.

The new digital edition of the album includes an** additional 10 tracks**, including
album outtakes and live and demo versions of some of the album’s finest tracks. 
It provides additional insight into the creative processes surrounding the album,
including live arrangements, and of course gives the listener almost twice as much
great music.

To coincide with the release, the gorgeous album opener** “Cry Tears” **has been
released as the album’s new single.

Cry Tears

[⌊Cry Tears⌉⌊Cry Tears⌉
Watch this video on YouTube

_Murphnick – Cry Tears (Official Audio)_

**Murphnick will launch the new edition of_ Strange Ride_ Saturday Feb 3 at the 
_Merri Creek Tavern_ in Northcote.**

[**Strange Ride | Murphnick (bandcamp.com)**](https://facebook.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a&id=539353a55d&e=7f3088bce0)

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_**“Nick Murphy is a talented man. He has recorded an album of stunning harmonic
depth, divine orchestration and a gentle humanity.” – Toby Martin, Youth Group**_

_**“Such great singing and writing and playing. Shit, that’s not easy to do. Of 
course, it is easy for people to record and so many do but not many have Nick’s 
talents.” – Dave Graney**_

_**“(Murphy) has the melodic and instrumental gifts to match his transistor radio
dreams and a voice that is pure enough to sing multiple rings around them” – The
Age**_

_**Strange Ride**_ is the first album Nick has released under his new name. The 
name change wasn’t something Nick wanted to undertake; it was something he was ultimately
forced to do after the artist formerly known as Chet Baker, in 2016, reverted to
his birth name, which also happens to be Nick Murphy.

Says our Nick of the name change: **_“(The other Nick Murphy) originally became 
Chet because of me. Friends and fans of his were attending my shows, seeing the 
wrong Nick. His transition back to being NM came with a big publicity push, online
and on the street. He was everywhere. Images of him were next to my songs online,
and before I knew it, I had been removed from a famous online music platform. My
legal options were limited. I was lost to the determinations of dominant search 
engines, no one could find me.”_**

Hence, Nick Murphy became Murphnick.

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Before beginning his solo career, **Nick Murphy** had firmly established his reputation
as a key founding member and songwriter for **The Anyones**, who toured the US and
Australia with the likes of **The Killers, The Vines, Jet, Sloan, Morrissey, The
Music, Youth Group, Dallas Crane, You Am I, Even** and more on the back of two highly
acclaimed and internationally-released albums.

Nick released his debut solo album, **_Breaking The Light_** in 2006, and a second
record, **_What’s In Your Mind?_** in 2011. Both records received wide critical 
acclaim, received lots of airplay on ABC and community radio as well as TV shows
such as _Home & Away_, _Neighbours _and _Tripping Over_. Meanwhile, Nick’s solo 
bands toured the country with such local heroes as **Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males,
The Gin Club, Even, Ross McLennan** **and The New World Orchestra, Screamfeeder &
78 Saab.**

After releasing the intimate, singer-songwriter album **_What’s In Your Mind?_**,**
Nick Murphy** became a bit of a hired gun, helping out various buddies including**
Chris Altmann, Mia Dyson, Luke Sinclair, Ben Mason, Liz Stringer, Ross McLennan,
Davey Lane, Ash Naylor** and **Suzannah Espie**.  Musically he found himself straddling
the sounds coming from both sides of the Atlantic, both Americana and English rock,
and hankering to again record something that sounded like a rock band.   

By 2017, and hoping to put aside the trauma of his lost identity, Nick had a big
swag of tunes demoed and ready to record. Drifting back to listening to much more
Americana music, Nick was writing songs heavily influenced by country rock, folk
and soul. A second big batch of songs came from Nick’s love of more European sounds,
as well as daydreamy cinematic soundscapes. After culling and selecting the best,
the final collection of material was an eclectic group of tunes with a prevailing
sound of psychedelia and the early ‘70s. Uniting the new material with everything
else he’s ever recorded is a love of melody and vocal harmonies, two elements which
would take pride of place on what would become **_Strange Ride_**. 

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Having decided local studio wiz’s **Marcel Borrack & Tim Harvey** were the best 
team for the job, Nick was able to utilize some of Melbourne’s finest musicians,
with a considerable cast adding cello, violin, piano, alto sax and harmonies.  The
initial drum sessions were completed in drummer, **Al Barden**’s basement, engineered
by Marcel.  Later sessions were recorded at Pow Wow, the studio run by Marcel and
Tim. 

Whilst stamping his own distinctive sound upon the material, Nick’s tragic obsession
with this early ‘70s era can be heard in the many iconic references which are apparent
on the album; references to songs such **“Draft Morning” **and **“Wasn’t Born To
Follow” **by** The Byrds, “Moonlight Mile”, “Winter”, “100 Years Ago” **and **“Shine
A Light” **by** The Stones, “Yer Blues” **by** The Beatles, “Moonage Daydream” **
by** Bowie, “Everybody’s Talkin’”** by** Fred Neil, **the theme to** _Rosemary’s
Baby_, “Should I Take You Home” **by **Sunny & The Sunliners, “Didn’t I Blow Your
Mind”** by** The Delfonics, “Down By The River” **and** “Cortez The Killer” by Neil
Young **as well as later classics including **“Marquee Moon” **by** Television **
and** “Rattled By The Rush” **by** Pavement**.

Nick’s lyrics, not surprisingly, tell stories of loss, abandonment and mistaken 
identity, and, like so much classic pop, echo the yearning of childhood dreams. 

**_The Expanded Edition of Murphnick’s Strange Ride is out now and available from:_**
**
[Strange Ride | Murphnick | Cheersquad Records & Tapes (bandcamp.com)](https://facebook.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7468cc72c4dbd0d828cf87a0a&id=ac5b0083ab&e=7f3088bce0)**

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