Tool’s Justin Chancellor joins Peter Murphy on “The Artroom Wonder”

Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy‘s new album Silver Shade arrives on May 9, and he’s given us another early taste with “The Artroom Wonder,” which features TOOL bassist Justin Chancellor. It’s another dark, driving slice of synth-funk, and Murphy says it’s “an echo from my fourth year at senior school. Daniel Ash and I are listening to the mysterious sixth-year cool intelligentsia that have gathered in the artroom. We have dared to enter their conclave, and the music coming from it was intriguing. We discover that the song being played is ‘The Bewlay Brothers,’ highly intelligent, mystical and sensual, with the singer’s voice as seductive as anyone I’d ever heard.”

Silver Shade was produced by Youth of Killing Joke, and is due out on May 9 via Metropolis Records. It also features the Trent Reznor-featuring “Swoon,” and “Let the Flowers Grow,” Murphy’s surprising collaboration with Boy George. See the tracklist below.

PETER MURPHY – SILVER SHADE TRACKLIST
1. Swoon (with Trent Reznor)
2. Hot Roy
3. Sherpa
4. Silver Shade
5. The Artroom Wonder
6. Meaning Of My Life
7. Xavier New Boy
8. Cochita Is Lame
9. Soothsayer
10. Time Waits
11. Sailmaker’s Charm
12. Let The Flowers Grow (with Boy George)