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01 'The Broken Places'

02 'Be the One'

03 'Sevastopol'

04 'The Low Hum'

05 'Rockets'

06 'The Day'

07 'The Right Thing'

08 'After'

09 'Victoria Lucas'

10 'Blue Moon'

11 'Lie Down in Darkness'

12 'Stella Maris'

13 'The Violent Bear It Away'

14 'Lacrimae'

15 'When You Are Old'

 

"hi, ok, ta-da, official next album announcement update (i would write blog but i still have some odd, preternatural loathing for the word 'blog', although now i've written it twice, blog blog blog. now five times. i'll stop now).

 

so! next album update (not blog)

 

my next album is called 'destroyed' and it comes out in the middle of may sometime. musically it's very melodic and atmospheric and electronic, and if i had to sum it up i would describe it as: 'broken down melodic electronic music for empty cities at 2 a.m'.

 

that's what it sounds like to me, anyway. and the music was all originally written late at night while on tour, as i often have insomnia and spend a lot of times awake in hotel rooms at 2 a.m when everyone else in the world seems to be asleep. so rather than buy more drum machines on ebay (as nice as they are) i try to spend my insomnia time working on music. then i take the songs back to my studio and try to finish them with my weird collection of old, broken down drum machines and synthesizers and i try to convince my friends to sing on it (my friends emily zuzik, inyang bassey, and joy malcom sing on the record, as do i). then i put the songs on a record. then i call it 'destroyed'. then i put it out in may of 2011. at least that is the plan.

 

why 'destroyed'? well, in addition to the album i'm also putting out a book of photos (with the nice people at damiani/d.a.p). i've been a photographer since i was 10 years old, and i've decided to finally release a book of photographs. i know, in the age of digital photography EVERYONE is a photographer. but i've been shooting pictures for 35 years with a nikon F, and i used to work in darkrooms, developing and printing, so i feel like i'm not a complete dilettante digital photographer.

 

so, the title: 'destroyed'. i was in laguardia airport and my flight was delayed and i was wandering around and i saw a small sign that said 'unattended luggage will be destroyed', but the sign only fit one word at a time so i waited until it read 'destroyed' and i took a picture and somehow the picture and the title make sense to me when i listen to the music on the album and when i look at the other pictures in the book and yes this is a huge long run on sentence about the title and cover image of the book and album but i like run on sentences because they remind me of 'a prayer for owen meany' by john irving."

 

YES PLEASE! :wub:

yessss i'm so excited for this! i'm hoping so badly that it's more play/hotel than wait for me. i much prefer his uptempo stuff rather than the ambient. i'm not holding out hope that it will be very play-ish though he seems to be over all that :(

 

i do hope he promotes this well though. if anything just to watch him in interviews cos pretty much everything he says i agree with and he makes so much sense

Excited for this album. I really liked 'Wait For Me', but as Jake said, I'd love him to release another album a bit like 'Play'. I've been playing 'Play' quite a bit recently, I still love it! :wub:!

Yes, I can't wait until he comes to Croatia again. He was here three years ago and we loved him. I couldn't believe how many Croatians listen to him until he came here and held a concert...I was pleasantly surprised and the concert was great

Album is streaming here.

I'm really liking the sound of it. It seems to be sort of a mixture of his ambient works and 'Play'-esque songs. I'm really tempted to get the hardback photo book as well as the album, not sure though...

After :heart:

 

also The Day omg.. Moby needs to sing more I love his voice so much

This guy has some real classics. In My Heart, Go, We Are All Made Of Stars, Why Does My Heart.., and Porcelain to name a few.

 

I'll definitely be checking out this album!