Moby to release new album. Playing SXSW.

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Feb162011

Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 5:27 PM

Moby has announced that he will be releasing a new album and book of photography come May 17th. Mute will be releasing the record titled Destroyed in CD, Vinyl and digital formats. The photography book is 128 pages and features 55 photos taken by Moby from all over the world. The world renowned DJ will be hosting a slew of "Art and Music Launch Events" in NYC and Washington DC. Info on all of those dates below. Mr. Hall is also set to perform at 2011's SXSW. Want to know what the best part is? Moby has decided to give 3 tracks from his forth coming ninth studio album away for free. You can download those songs over at his website, as well as watch the 3 videos he directed to go along with the tracks. More about Destroyer and it's book of photographs can be found below.

Songs on Destroyed were written by Moby mostly late at night, in hotel rooms around the world when cities had gone to bed and the insomnia that worldwide travel can induce fueled his need to create. A soundtrack for empty cities at 2 A.M., Destroyedfluctuates with nocturnal feelings of anxious isolation and comfort in quiet solitude. The result is a 15-track collection that conflates the atmospheric and the disconcerting with the enveloping and beautiful – a record rich in the kind of melodies that are lodged in the brain by stealth rather than with a bludgeon.  Destroyed is an album that changes and evolves, exploring time, expectation, and ultimately the tension it creates.

Destroyed was produced by Moby and mixed by Ken Thomas (Sigur Ros, M83) on old analog equipment and mixed on a 1972 Neve analog mixing desk from Abbey Road.  A cohesive body of work, Destroyed is to be listened to in its entirety and, preferably, as it was made; late at night when your city has gone to sleep.

Moby has been taking pictures as long as he’s been making music, or ever since he was nine years old when his uncle presented him with an A Nikon F camera.  To this dayMoby carries a camera wherever he goes. “Touring is all contrasts and strangeness, and that’s what I’m trying to convey in these pictures.” The title and front cover ofDestroyed, both album and book, is the product of Moby’s keen photographer eye. The eye-catching image depicts the final part of an LED security warning: Unattended luggage will be destroyed, which Moby snapped as it flashed up, one word at time, in a deserted hallway at New York’s La Guardia airport.