New Moby Album

A new Moby album is released today - embracing modern minimalism and ambient soundscapes, with numerous vocal collaborations. It's called 'Future Quiet' and reflects on the tension of the hyper-connected modern life mixed with the human need for stillness. The album opens with a beautiful rework of 'When It's Cold I'd Like To Die' with Jacob Lusk (details on that collab below) and features new tracks too.

Moby has two shows in the UK this year, on Brighton Beach and in London

The album is out today, all the links are here, and more details below...

'Future Quiet' signals the latest chapter for one of electronic music's most enduring and visionary artists. Across fourteen tracks that encompass modern piano minimalism, immersive ambient soundscapes and a smattering of vocal collaborations, the album finds Moby reflecting on the tension between hyper-connected modern life and the deep human need for stillness. 

Elaborating, Moby says, "'Future Quiet' is, not surprisingly, quiet. To be clear; I love bombast. I love excess and volume. But as the world gets louder and crazier I find myself needing the refuge of quiet, both as a listener and as a musician. For me, and hopefully for others, Future Quiet is a refuge. The world, self-evidently, is more demanding than it's ever been. The world screams at us, our screens scream at us, other people scream at us, and to retreat from the screaming we need safety and refuge. That for me is the goal of 'Future Quiet'. Writing and recording it was a refuge for me, and I hope that listening to it is a refuge for you."

The album opens with a new version of 'When It's Cold I'd Like To Die', featuring the glorious Jacob Lusk (Gabriels) on vocals. "I first heard Jacob's voice on KCRW when they started playing 'Love and Hate in A Different Time'," Moby recalls. "And, like anyone who's heard Jacob sing, I immediately fell in love with his voice. After hearing him sing on the radio, I spent weeks tracking him down and begging him to work with me. And, lucky me, he agreed. The results speak for themselves, as his vocals on 'When It's Cold I'd Like To Die' are, I say with something approaching objectivity, transcendent."

The original song (featuring vocalist Mimi Goese) was first released on Moby's 1995 album 'Everything Is Wrong'. The track has gained a new generation of listeners thanks to its emotive use in seasons one and four of Netflix phenomenon 'Stranger Things'. Clamour for the 1995 song amidst the fifth and final season of 'Stranger Things' has seen it leap to Moby's most streamed song as well as go viral across Tiktok. Speaking of its success, Moby says, "It's reaching hundreds of millions of people annually, which is both wonderful and surprising, especially as it was an obscure song with no drums or bass and was never released as a single."

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