out for a while: Moby - 18 [Mute | Little Idiot]

Artist:
Moby

Title:
18

Label:
Mute | Little Idiot

Cat#:
STUMM202 | IDIOTR007

Release Date:
13th May 2002 (original release date)
09th September 2022 (re-release)

Format:
CD, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
01.
We Are All Made Of Stars

02.
In This World

03.
In My Heart

04.
Great Escape

05.
Signs Of Love

06.
One Of These Mornings

07.
Another Woman

08.
Fireworks

09.
Extreme Ways

10.
Jam For The Ladies

11.
Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)

12.
18

13.
Sleep Alone

14.
At Least We Tried

15.
Harbour

16.
Look Back In

17.
The Rafters

18.
I’m Not Worried

Press Info:
Moby will release a new album entitled “18” on 13th May. This is the much anticipated follow up to his multi-award winning and ten million selling album “Play”.

The album features eighteen brand new tracks and a brilliant line up of guest vocalists including, amongst others, Sinead O’Connor, Azure Ray, MC Lyte and Angie Stone. “18” expands upon, updates and surpasses “Play”, moving through anthemic nu-new wave, sample centred gospel and blues, electro, funk, warm orchestration and lush instrumentals.

Moby explains the title: ‘In addition to the record being called “18” because there are 18 songs on it, there are other more obscure reasons for it being called “18”…’

The album includes the forthcoming single ‘We Are All Made Of Stars’, which is released on 29th April. It is accompanied by a video directed by the award-winning Joseph Kahn. Filmed on location in Hollywood, Santa Monica and Sunset and Vine, the promo sees Moby assuming the guise of a somewhat distant and removed Spaceman who has come down to earth. He lands in LA and observes Hollywood Babylon at its most banal. Moby is joined by a number of familiar faces on his adventure. These include: Tommy Lee, Thora Birch, Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction/Red Hot Chili Peppers, Corey Feldman, Vern Troyer (aka – Mini Me), Angelyne, Ron Jeremy, Dominique Swain, and Kato Kaelin – plus Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges from 80’s TV show Diff’rent Strokes.

MobyRecorded and produced by Moby at his studio in New York over the last twelve months, Moby plays all the instruments on the album and sings on four of the tracks; ‘Extreme Ways’, ‘We Are All Made Of Stars’, ‘Sleep Alone’ and the semi spoken ‘Signs Of Love’. Elsewhere MC Lyte and Angie Stone both guest on the uptempo ‘Jam For The Ladies’. Sinead O’Connor delivers one of her most moving vocal performances on ‘Harbour’ while Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor of Athens, Georgia duo Azure Ray wrote the lyrics for and sing on ‘Great Escape’.

“18” features two stunning instrumentals, the title track is a version of a composition that Moby wrote and performed at the closing ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics, while ‘Fireworks’ is a short interlude piece and takes its title from one of Moby’s favourite films by the director Takeshi Kitano.

Moby’s love of Soul and R’n’B from the 60s, 70s and 80s is again apparent and he makes brilliant use of a wide range of vocal samples on many of the tracks. Most notably ‘Another Woman’ which samples Barbara Lynn’s, classic, ‘I’m A Good Woman’ and on ‘Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)’ which features a sample of Sugarhill Records founder Sylvia Robinson’s ‘Sunday’.

Moby will play live dates throughout 2002 and 2003. Details of his worldwide tour will follow soon.

Snippets:

Videos:
“We Are All Made Of Stars (Video Edit)”