Moby announces new album, ‘Future Quiet’ led by Gabriels’ Jacob Lusk collaboration
Moby has announced a new album, titled Future Quiet, led by a new version of his Stranger Things hit, ‘When It’s Cold I’d Like to Die’, in collaboration with Gabriels’ Jacob Lusk.
The follow-up to 2023’s minimalist ‘Everything Is Wrong’ is slated for a February 20th release. It will feature a variety of guest collaborators across 11 tracks.
In alignment with the name, Moby, real name Richard Melville Hall, has shared with fans that the album “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.”
He added, “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.”
Gushing about the new collaboration, Moby shared, “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.”
Moby continued, “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 song was originally sung by Mimi Goese, and has enjoyed a streaming resurgence since its appearance in Stranger Things. It was also reprised in the fourth season.
Moby, who is credited with bringing dance music to mainstream audiences in the 1990s, is a champion of animal rights and an avid vegan. His turn to more mellow sounds follows a career that began in hardcore punk.
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