Moby: new album “Future Quiet” on the way, led by the track relaunched by “Stranger Things”

Moby is back in the studio with a new work. It's titled "Future Quiet" and will be released on February 20th via BMG. It's a largely ambient record, a continuation of "Ambient 23", but even more intimate and contemplative.

Opening the project is a new version of "When It's Cold I'd Like to Die", a 1995 track originally featured on "Everything Is Wrong", reinterpreted here with vocals by Jacob Lusk of Gabriels. The song found a second life thanks to the first season of "Stranger Things", resurfacing again in the fourth, and Moby decided to start right there. Of his new vocalist, he says: after hearing him sing, he stubbornly pursued him until he convinced him to collaborate. The result, he claims with pride, is "transcendent".

"Future Quiet" openly looks toward an ethereal, suspended aesthetic. The author of "Play" cites as key references Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil, as well as the ambient work of the Berlin era of Brian Eno and David Bowie, along with names from classical music such as Górecki and Arvo Pärt. A necessary counterpoint, he explains, to his past in hardcore punk bands and nights spent playing hip-hop, house and industrial at ear-splitting volume. A sonic refuge he obsessively returned to, from "Song To the Siren" to "Atmosphere" by Joy Division.

The album is almost entirely instrumental, with only a handful of vocal contributions, courtesy of Lusk as well as serpentwithfeet, Elise Serenelle and India Carney. A tour is also planned to support the release, with details to be announced soon.

Here is the tracklist and cover art for “Future Quiet”.

1. When It’s Cold, I’d Like to Die [ft. Jacob Lusk]

2. This Was Never Meant for Us

3. Retreat

4. LiEstrella del Mar [ft. Elise Serenelle]

5. Ruhe

6. Mott St 1992

7. Precious Mind [ft. India Carney]

8. Tallinn

9. On Air [ft. serpentwithfeet]

10. Selene

11. La Vide

12. Great Absence

13. Mono No Aware

14. The Opposite of Fear

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