![]() ![]() So if there were a Venn diagram of that, the number of people who might actually listen to this album from start-to-finish probably could be counted on two hands.” Despite these successes, Moby himself claims that, “t’s 2013 and I’m 47-years-old, and so a) very few people listen to the eleventh album made by a 47-year-old musician and b) very few people listen to albums. ![]() ![]() That record would not only score a platinum certification, but all eighteen of its tracks eventually earned licensing deals for television, movies and commercials – a first in modern music.Īnd yet in the weeks leading up to the release of Moby’s eleventh full-length studio outing, the artist has identified Innocents as the album that he has waited his entire life to write - a curious, if not outrageous statement from a man who has enjoyed a career with not one but two golden ages. Like the notoriously single-minded captain conceived by his famed literary forebear, Moby has spent the past fourteen years chasing the success of the great white whale known as Play, his game-changing 1999 release that effortlessly merged the genres of electronica, soul and pop into a singular, commercially-verdant masterstroke.
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