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Moloko

Last album: March 11, 2003
First published: January 31, 2009
Downloads: 3197 albums downloaded

Biography

"Moloko" were an Anglo-Irish trip-hop / electro-pop duo consisting of Róisín Murphy from Arklow, Republic of Ireland and Mark Brydon, from Sunderland, England. The band's name originates from the novel "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess, in which it means either "milk" (the name of a milk drink Alex and his 'droogs' consume, and the Russian word for milk, молоко) or "method of narcotic ingestion". Fellow Sheffield band "Heaven 17" had also taken their name from the novel when they formed in 1980.