NICK MURPHY Run Fast Sleep Naked (Future Classic) What I find most intriguing about the first album from Nick Murphy, which is actually the second album from the artist formerly known as Chet Faker, is that the line between comfort and discomfort, between turning inwards and facing outwards, between a man settled and a man in flux, is never entirely rubbed out. Ostensibly, at least in his public statements, this record is the culmination of his reassessment of life after the

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