Why so serious, Moby?
After years of major adrenaline-soaked rave tunes, Moby’s Blue Period is entrenched in the End Times (see his last two albums collaborating with The Void Pacific Choir, or really, or any track from his forthcoming release). With preoccupations of global chaos and/or failing systems, gloom and/or doom, the DAT-playing vegan is officially insisting that the party’s over.
But then again, complacency and ignorance are death. And even if the famed American DJ/producer/photographer/animal rights activist’s subject matter has taken a bit of a Vonnegut-esque turn for the morose, Moby’s passion remains infectious, as he knows that acknowledgement and outrage are the first steps to changing anything.
His latest single, “Like a Motherless Child,” is a spiritual with roots going allllll the way back to the Civil War. The updated version features L.A. soul singer Raquel Rodriguez singing the recognizable hook. The single comes in advance of Moby’s forthcoming album Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt, out March 2 on Mute. Pre-order it here, and check out the new song’s stark, mostly monochrome video clip below:
Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt tracklisting:
01. Mere Anarchy
02. The Waste of Suns
03. Like a Motherless Child
04. The Last of Goodbyes
05. The Ceremony of Innocence
06. The Tired and The Hurt
07. Welcome to Hard Times
08. The Sorrow Tree
09. Falling Rain and Light
10. The Middle is Gone
11. This Wild Darkness
12. A Dark Cloud is Coming
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