Moby shares a stunning live video of the new version of Stranger Things hit ‘When It’s Cold I’d Like To Die’ featuring Jacob Lusk, taken from his studio album ‘Future Quiet,’ to be released on February 20 via BMG.
‘Future Quiet’ opens with a stunning new orchestral reworking of ‘When It’s Cold I’d Like To Die’, featuring the glorious Jacob Lusk on vocals. “I first heard Jacob’s voice on KCRW when they started playing ‘Love and Hate in A Different Time’,” Moby recalls. “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.”
The original song (featuring vocalist Mimi Goese) was first released on Moby’s 1995 album ‘Everything Is Wrong’. The track has gained a new generation of listeners thanks to its emotive use in seasons one and four of Netflix phenomenon ‘Stranger Things’. Clamour for the 1995 song amidst the fifth and final season of ‘Stranger Things’ has seen it leap to Moby’s most streamed song as well as go viral across Tiktok. Speaking of its success, Moby says, “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.”
‘Future Quiet’ is an album crafted as a therapeutic space, meant to help ease anxiety, and created by Moby as a personal response to his own anxiety and insomnia.
Elaborating, Moby says, “‘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.”