The veteran electronic dance music producer Moby has announced his new Moby & the Void Pacific Choir project and released several new tracks. Listen to "Almost Loved" and "The Light is Clear in My Eyes" below. As reported by Stereogum, no one "yet know[s] what's going on with Moby and his mysterious new project Moby & The Void Pacific Choir," but speculations about a new full-length album are probably not far off.
This week, Moby & The Void Pacific Choir dropped a new song, "Almost Loved," paired with a creepy video which you can check out below. The only information publicists provided was an explanation of the void: "Normally when people refer to a void, it's a big, dark, scary, thing - the dark, malicious, Nietzschean void, where if you stare too long into the it, it stares back into you. But we like the paradox of a pacific, peaceful void - a benign emptiness."
This scavenger hunt-of-sorts started late last month when Moby essentially announced the enigmatic project by releasing a new song, "The Light is Clear in My Eyes," accompanied by a cryptic VHS-like video. This track arrived with no information whatsoever beyond a quote from the English writer D.H. Lawrence's collected letters: "California is a queer place - in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific." Listen to "The Light is Clear in My Eyes" and watch the video, below.
The driving post-punk track is not even the first Moby & The Void Pacific Choir track--the project is featured on "Moonlit Sky," the final track on German producer Robin Schulz's new album, Sugar. The result of the collaboration is a tropical synth-heavy track evocative of much of Moby's more recent canon. Listen to "Moonlit Sky," below.
While "Almost Loved" and "The Light is Clear in My Eyes" both seemed to come out of nowhere, the project does come with a website that is filtered through the same gritty lo-fi lens as both videos. If you click through the multiple pages featuring extreme close-ups of old-school animal masks, take note of the dashes marking the bottom of each page. The two pages that contain the two videos Moby & The Void Pacific Choir have released thus far do not have these dashes; they are complete. It's probably safe to assume that the other pages will become filled with videos and song titles in the coming months (or maybe even weeks).
