On his new album, Always Centered at Night, Moby has once again conjured into reality a collection of heart-achingly beautiful, tender-yet-defiant songs made in collaboration with uniquely talented, soulfully aware, other-worldly vocalists. All the songs are love letters to the unrestricted and enchanting music scene of late 70s, early 80s New York that shaped Moby as a musician. The featured vocalists were given the same assignment: Please dont write anything commercial. Let it be weird. Let it be
personal. It doesnt have to make sense.

Because of that randomized freedom, Ive been on the receiving end of so much genius work, says moby. And the result has been one of the most exciting, surprising things Ive ever done as a musician, and its one of the most worthwhile things a human being can do: make tender, gentle, vulnerable music thats a clarion call to act.

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