Moby’s own record label Little Idiot is set to release his new album Wait For Me on 29th June. Moby recorded the album very DIY in his home studio; he drew the album artwork with a black sharpie on copy paper, asked his friends to record the vocals and asked another friend, a photographer to take press photos. The record begins with “Division,” a two-minute long instrumental that glides along with whispering synthetic strings, and it really sets the scene for the other tracks. The album’s lead single “Shot in the Back of the Head”, while being instrumental, confronts the ongoing sadness that is evident throughout the record. It reveals an interesting inverted loop that works beneath moaning guitar to lend a picture of moroseness to the music. The songs sound best when listened to as a consistent body of work. While each track stands on its own merit, Wait For Me was recorded and arranged to be listened to from start to finish and in today’s single-driven music industry an album that holds together as a collective body is a rarity. An album that hols itself to standards higher than commercial measures of success is even rarer.

Released 29th June.

By Sophie Stratford