Video: Moby, ‘Mere Anarchy’

Kevin Bronson on January 29th, 2018

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After a two-album detour back to punk rock, dance music luminary Moby returns to soulful trip-hop and EDM when his new album “Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt” is released on March 9. His 2016 and ’17 albums as Moby & the Void Pacific Choir — “These Systems Are Failing” and “More Fast Songs About the Apocalypse” — unleashed the songwriter’s rage about a world in turmoil. The sci-fi-themed video for “Mere Anarchy,” directed by Rob Gordon Bralver, suggests his next topic might be what happens after our (inevitable?) downfall. He describes the scenario as “post apocalypse, people are gone, and my friend Julie and I are time traveling aliens visiting the empty Earth.” It follows the release in December of the album’s first single “Like a Motherless Child,” which samples the spiritual “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.” Meanwhile, on Spotify, Moby has created a playlist mixing his new tracks in with songs that gave him inspiration for the new album; it’s an interesting window into his creative process.

||| Watch: The video for “Mere Anarchy”