MOBY ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM, SINGLE & PHOTO BOOK DETAILS
FREE DIGITAL EP ‘BE THE ONE’ AVAILABLE NOW
Destroyed, Moby’s new album and book of photography, is set for release on May 13th. Self-released on his own label Little Idiot through EMI Music Australia. Destroyed will be available on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.
The album will also be included as a CD with the Destroyed photography book released mid May, Australian fans can order the book via http://www.damianieditore.it/catalogue/523.
Published by Damiani, the hardback edition of Destroyed is 128 pages and features 55 photographs taken by Moby all over the world.
To celebrate the release of his ninth studio album, a free digital EP titles ‘Be The One’ featuring three songs from Destroyed is currently available for download at moby.com. In addition, a trilogy of short films directed by Moby for each of the tracks have been released online.
Check out the videos to all three EP tracks – “A Trilogy” by clicking below:
– ‘Be The One EP’ – playlist.
Moby also announces the release of a new single, The Day, taken from the studio album, Destroyed.
The Day will be available on iTunes from April 22nd, followed by the official release date and full remix bundle on May 13th. The package will include the original album track, with remixes from Lifelike, Basto, Gesaffelstein, Eddie Thoneick and Funkerman.
“‘The Day’ was written in a hotel room in Spain at dawn when I hadn’t slept. It was a beautiful hotel room, a beautiful perfect hotel room and it was six or seven in the morning. I wrote it on a acoustic guitar and recorded it on my phone, brought it home and re-recorded it with old broken down electronics that I have in my studio”. – Moby
The Day was indirectly inspired by David Bowie and Brian Eno’s production which moby believes is now part of his DNA; growing up, moby had Low and Heroes spinning constantly on his turntable. One of the few tracks from Destroyed that moby sings on, The Day is a deeply personal song about late night desperation and dark night of the soul feelings usually associated with some terrible addiction; these themes are woven throughout the journey that his new album takes us on.
The album, Destroyed is a behind-the-scenes international odyssey with Moby, introducing us to a side of touring that is often unexposed; secluded time spent in artificial spaces like hotel rooms, airports, and backstage waiting areas. The album and photo book combination provides an intimate look at Moby’s world and his creative process as an artist, both the music and photos were created in the same period and draw inspiration from the strange and sublime world of touring.
Moby’s songs from Destroyed were written late at night in hotel rooms around the world. A soundtrack for empty cities at 2AM, Destroyed evokes nocturnal feelings of both anxious isolation and the comfort of quiet solitude. The result is a 15-track collection that conflates the atmospheric and the disconcerting with the enveloping and beautiful – a record rich in the kind of melodies that are lodged in the brain by stealth rather than with a bludgeon.
Produced by Moby and mixed by Ken Thomas (who has worked with everyone from David Bowie and Queen to Sigur Ros and M83), Destroyed was recorded using vintage analog equipment and mixed on a 1972 Neve mixing desk from Abbey Road. A cohesive body of work, Destroyed is best experienced in its entirety and late at night when the city has gone to sleep.
Moby has been taking pictures as long as he’s been making music; and to this day he carries camera wherever he goes. The title and front cover of Destroyed depicts the final part of an LED security warning: Unattended luggage will be destroyed, which Moby snapped as it flashed up in a deserted hallway at New York’s La Guardia airport. Explains Moby, “One of my goals through my pictures is to take the normal and present it as odd and to take the odd and present it as normal.”
‘DESTROYED’ tracklisting:
1. The Broken Places
2. Be The One
3. Sevastopol
4. The Low Hum
5. Rockets
6. The Day
7. Lie Down In Darkness
8. Victoria Lucas
9. After
10. Blue Moon
11. The Right Thing
12. Stella Maris
13. The Violent Bear It Away
14. Lacrimae
15. When You Are Old
To celebrate the release of the book in the UK, Moby will be exhibiting the full selection of photographs at Proud Galleries in Camden, London from 18th May – 19th June.
NEW ALBUM | ‘DESTROYED’ | RELEASED MAY 13
NEW SINGLE | ‘THE DAY’ | RELEASED DIGITALLY APRIL 22
FREE EP | ‘BE THE ONE’ | AVAILABLE NOW
