Now 60-years-old, Moby has announced his forthcoming album Future Quiet will drop on February 20.
Including a reimagined version of the Stranger Things song ‘When It’s Cold I’d Like To Die,’ with Gabriels‘ Jacob Lusk, about his 23rd studio LP, the producer artist (born Richard Melville Hall) said:
“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.”
Originally featured on Moby’s 1995 album Everything Is Wrong, the new 11-track full length will include a variety of guest collaborations.
“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,” said Moby.
Helping to bring dance music to a mainstream audience in the 90s, the native New Yorker has sold 20,000,000+ records throughout his career. Having acknowledged that fame and fortune are “two of the most destructive forces on the planet,” Moby told Sky News:
“I think fame and fortune are, probably, empirically two of the most destructive forces on the planet. I mean, if fame and fortune fixed things, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse would still be making records.” “I guess it’s a very easy system to buy into, especially in a place like … in New York, in Los Angeles, in these big cities that are driven by ostentation and consumption and the need for external validation. It’s hard to resist those temptations. But then … you look at the consequences of that.” “I’d rather try and live a rational life and not necessarily let other people’s concerns dictate what my concerns should be.”
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Author: Saul Goode
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