Little Idiot
Radio Date: 10/01/2014
““One thing that makes L.A. great is you live in your cars, so you listen to a lot of radio; there, public radio stations like KXLU and KCRW are actually valid, big stations that people listen to. One day, I was listening to ‘Morning Becomes Eclectic’ on KCRW, and I heard a Damien Jurado song. I simply fell in love with his voice – this most beautiful, vulnerable, pristine, angelic voice. Originally ‘Almost Home’ was a fully finished song, but I love Damien’s approach to melody and lyrics, so I gave it to him as an instrumental. What he did was much better than anything I’d come up with.”
Almost Home has been remixed by French electronic producer/DJ Agoria, with a full remix package to be announced soon.
Moby is one of the most innovative and individual forces in electronic and popular music today. He has sold over 20 million albums, and is back with arguably one of the best albums of his career, Innocents, an album of collaborations and a record of firsts for Moby.
Innocents sees the first time Moby has focused a campaign around his home; recording the album in his home studio in Los Angeles, making the first video for ‘A Case For Shame’ with Cold Specks, himself at his home and playing just 3 live shows in a venue around the corner from his house.
It is also the first time in his career he worked with an outside producer, friend Mark “Spike” Stent, whose résumé includes Madonna, U2, Muse, Björk, and Massive Attack, and the first time Moby has concentrated an entire album on collaborations which as well as indie-folk singer Damien Jurado features Wayne Coyne (The Flaming Lips), alt-rock legend Mark Lanegan, Cold Specks, Skylar Grey – best known for co-writing and performing on Eminem and Rihanna’s Love The Way You Lie, and Inyang Bassey who was the vocalist on The Right Thing from Destroyed.