Taken from the new album - Wait for Me - http://moby.com
Moby on 'Jltf 1':
"Having lived in New York for a long time, there’s a lot of vice and degeneracy – there’s celebratory vice and degeneracy and then there comes a time when vice is no longer celebratory and it becomes a way of life and you’re no longer going out, you’re staying in. This song is about two drug addicts in a relationship who disappeared down the rabbit hole of hardcore drug addiction. Almost everybody I know either is or has been a drug addict. When I was growing up, my mom and her friends did a lot of drugs, but harder drugs always seemed really scary to me. But at some point I realized I became inured through exposure to drug use. Everyone I knew was smoking crack, smoking meth, and shooting speedballs and dying of overdoses and it became normal. So that’s sort of what this song is about: my friends are all junkies and it’s just normal, it doesn’t seem weird anymore, which in and of itself seems really weird. The…
Taken from the new album - Wait for Me - http://moby.com
Moby on 'Jltf 1':
"Having lived in New York for a long time, there’s a lot of vice and degeneracy – there’s celebratory vice and degeneracy and then there comes a time when vice is no longer celebratory and it becomes a way of life and you’re no longer going out, you’re staying in. This song is about two drug addicts in a relationship who disappeared down the rabbit hole of hardcore drug addiction. Almost everybody I know either is or has been a drug addict. When I was growing up, my mom and her friends did a lot of drugs, but harder drugs always seemed really scary to me. But at some point I realized I became inured through exposure to drug use. Everyone I knew was smoking crack, smoking meth, and shooting speedballs and dying of overdoses and it became normal. So that’s sort of what this song is about: my friends are all junkies and it’s just normal, it doesn’t seem weird anymore, which in and of itself seems really weird. The…
Taken from the new album - Wait For Me (out 30th June) - http://moby.com
Moby on 'Jltf':
"Having lived in New York for a long time, theres a lot of vice and degeneracy theres celebratory vice and degeneracy and then there comes a time when vice is no longer celebratory and it becomes a way of life and youre no longer going out, youre staying in. This song is about two drug addicts in a relationship who disappeared down the rabbit hole of hardcore drug addiction. Almost everybody I know either is or has been a drug addict. When I was growing up, my mom and her friends did a lot of drugs, but harder drugs always seemed really scary to me. But at some point I realized I became inured through exposure to drug use. Everyone I knew was smoking crack, smoking meth, and shooting speedballs and dying of overdoses and it became normal. So thats sort of what this song is about: my friends are all junkies and its just normal, it doesnt seem weird anymore, which in and of itself seems really weird.…
Taken from the new album - Wait For Me (out 30th June) - http://moby.com
Moby on 'Hope Is Gone'
"I love torch songs. I love that aesthetic. I love that rock ‘n’ roll happened, but in a way I wish that that quiet torch song music of resignation, it sort of died when rock ‘n’ roll entered the picture, and I really miss it. I’m sort of trying to bring it back a little bit, i guess. It’s a straightforward song about resignation; the woman singing it, she’s given up, she’s content to sit at a bar for the rest of her life. The vocalist is Hilary Gardner, she was born at the wrong time. She should have been born in 1935, just her vocal approach and her voice… Put her in front of the crummiest microphone and she sounds like a young Patti Page -- and a funny historical side note: she’s from Wassilla, Alaska, Sarah Palin’s hometown."
Taken from the new album - Wait For Me (out 30th June) - http://moby.com
Moby on 'Slow Light':
Originally that was going to be the first track on the record. In general, its a mournful record; it has a lot of resignation and sadness. This song is a little more optimistic even though its an instrumental; its a little prettier, there are some major chords in there even. I wanted to try to do something a little more optimistic at the end of the record; I didnt want people to kill themselves after listening to the record.
Taken from the new album - Wait For Me (out 30th June) - http://moby.com
Moby on Study War:
“I’m so clueless when it comes to evaluating my own work. I finished 'study war' and I played it for someone and they said that it reminded them of something off of Play.
That was the first time it dawned on me: I guess down-tempo, sampled old African-American vocals and strings. To be honest with you, I considered leaving it off the record for that reason. I don’t mind people disliking the records I make, but I don’t like giving people obvious reasons to dislike the records I make or for dismissing them. To have someone to say, ‘This is Play part II; if you want a better record go buy Play.’
I do really like big, emotionally expansive pieces of music. Some of the songs on the record are very buttoned-down and restrained, and I guess others are more expansive. Certainly ‘Study War’ has so much going on in terms of strings and melodic stuff.”
Video by Robert Powers: http://slipperyrocknyc.com
when i was 19 years old i worked in an independent record-store/head-shop in darien connecticut, named 'johnnys'.
part of my job at johnny's was to draw a little cartoon on every single bag that left the store, which was odd, as i didn't know how to draw. but i came up with a quasi-self portrait ('the little idiot'), and now after all these years he's still around on the cover of 'wait for me', in the 'pale horses' video,
when i was 19 years old i worked in an independent record-store/head-shop in darien connecticut, named 'johnnys'.
part of my job at johnny's was to draw a little cartoon on every single bag that left the store, which was odd, as i didn't know how to draw. but i came up with a quasi-self portrait ('the little idiot'), and now after all these years he's still around on the cover of 'wait for me', in the 'pale horses' video, and also in these 'blips' that we've made for every track on the album.
what is a 'blip'? good question. a 'blip' is a 30 second animated music video. and we've made 16 of them (as there are 16 songs on the record). we'll be launching some now, and some later. i hope you like them.
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all videos taken from the new album 'wait for me' - moby.com
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