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

Nick Murphy Vivid Live, Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, June 1 Excuse the Donald Rumsfield moment but ahead of Nick Murphy’s first shows in Australia since shedding the name, the persona and the personal drama behind his former nom-de-pop, Chet Faker, there were some known knowns, some known unknowns and, yes, some unknown unknowns. We’d heard some new songs and read the interviews and knew this was a more confident, or at least less unsettled Murphy coming our way, while w