Moby Destroyed1

by Blogbot

Moby has just announced the impending release of his new 15-track album, Destroyed, which will come out in mid-May. “Musically it’s very melodic and atmospheric and electronic,” says the composer, producer and DJ in a just-don’t-call-it-a-blog post. “If I had to sum it up I would describe it as: ‘broken down melodic electronic music for empty cities at 2 a.m.'”

Ahead of the album’s release, Moby is giving fans the opportunity to download an EP for free. The three song sampler contains the tracks “Be the One,” “Sevastopol” and “Victoria Lucas.” We highly recommend you put in the mouse time, since we’ve had these tunes in heavy rotation to help us chill the fuck out for most of the day.

“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,” reveals Moby. “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…”

As a companion to the album, Moby will also be releasing a book of photography. “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.”

In case you’re wondering, the title of the album actually comes from one of the photographs included in the book. “I was in La Guardia 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.”

Visit Moby.com to download the FREE 3-song E.P.