I Am Not a Doctor by Moloko

I Am Not a Doctor, Moloko's second album, came out on Echo in 1998 and found the Sheffield duo of singer Róisín Murphy and producer Mark Brydon pushing the electronic pop of Do You Like My Tight Sweater? into stranger corners. There's drum and bass skitter, synthpop shimmer and a trip-hop murk under everything, with Murphy purring, cooing and sneering over Brydon's contraptions like she owns every one of them.

Critics dug it; the public mostly didn't. The album flopped at home, so it never got an American release, even though a promo 12-inch of "The Flipside" had advertised it as on the way. Then came the twist. Boris Dlugosch remixed "Sing It Back" into a floor-filler, it tore through the clubs, went top ten in the UK in 1999 on its second run up the chart, and topped Billboard's dance club chart in the States.

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