
Moby announces new record and shares first single "Like A Motherless Child"
11 December 2017, 13:34
| Written by
Laurence Day
Moby has announced new studio record Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt and shared the lead single featuring Raquel Rodriguez.
The album's first preview is "Like A Motherless Child", a modern electronic rework of the traditional spiritual sung by 19th century slaves in the US Deep South.
As well as the new song, video, and album details, Moby has shared a playlist of music which influenced the new record - check it out.
Moby's new record follows last year's debut with The Void Pacific Choir, These Systems Are Failing.
Tracklist:
- Mere Anarchy
- The Waste Of Suns
- Like a Motherless Child
- The Last Of Goodbyes
- The Ceremony Of Innocence
- The Tired And The Hurt
- Welcome To Hard Times
- The Sorrow Tree
- Falling Rain And Light
- The Middle Is Gone
- This Wild Darkness
- A Dark Cloud Is Coming
Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt is out 2 March 2018 via Little Idiot.
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