"When It's Cold I’d Like To Die" dates all the way back to before Moby became a TRL-grade household name with Play. The ballad, from the producer's 1995 album Everything Is Wrong, has experienced a renaissance over the past decade due to its inclusion in multiple scenes from Stranger Things. "It's reaching hundreds of millions of people annually, which is both wonderful and surprising, especially as it was an obscure song with no drums or bass and was never released as a single," Moby says in a press release.
Now Moby has created a new version of the song to introduce his 23rd album. Future Quiet will be out in just a few weeks. It features serpentwithfeet, Elise Serenelle, India Carney, and Jacob Lusk, and it finds Moby focusing on minimal piano and ambient soundscapes. He explains why:
Future Quiet is, not surprisingly, quiet. To be clear; I love bombast. I love excess and volume. But as the world gets louder and crazier I find myself needing the refuge of quiet, both as a listener and as a musician. For me, and hopefully for others, Future Quiet is a refuge. The world, self-evidently, is more demanding than it’s ever been. The world screams at us, our screens scream at us, other people scream at us, and to retreat from the screaming we need safety and refuge. That for me is the goal of Future Quiet. Writing and recording it was a refuge for me, and I hope that listening to it is a refuge for you.”
As for the reworked "When It's Cold I'd Like To Die," it swaps out original vocalist and co-writer Mimi Goese for Lusk, the former American Idol contestant and member of gospel-R&B group Gabriels.
I first heard Jacob's voice on KCRW when they started playing "Love And Hate In A Different Time." And, like anyone who’s heard Jacob sing, I immediately fell in love with his voice. After hearing him sing on the radio, I spent weeks tracking him down and begging him to work with me. And, lucky me, he agreed. The results speak for themselves, as his vocals on "When It's Cold I'd Like To Die" are, I say with something approaching objectivity, transcendent.
"When It's Cold I'd Like To Die" is the opening track on Future Quiet, and yeah, this is one hell of a way to open an album. Listen below.
TRACKLIST:
01 "When It’s Cold, I’d Like To Die" (Feat. Jacob Lusk)
02 "This Was Never Meant For Us"
03 "Retreat"
04 "LiEstrella Del Mar" (Feat. Elise Serenelle)
05 "Ruhe"
06 "Mott St 1992"
07 "Precious Mind" (Feat. India Carney)
08 "Tallinn"
09 "On Air" (Feat. serpentwithfeet)
10 "Selene"
11 "La Vide"
12 "Great Absence"
13 "Mono No Aware"
14 "The Opposite Of Fear"
Future Quiet is out 2/20 via BMG.
