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Moby Resurfaces For Album & Single

28th February 2008 | by Aidan Williamson

American electronic superstar Moby has conscripted “Alice” in the run up to the release of his new album entitled “Last Night”, with a beach date of March 31st.

Single “Alice” will precede it on March 17th. The futuristic hip-hop track features input from Smokey and S.O. Simple of Nigerian hip-hop group 419 Squad. The single release will also include a remix of the lead track by Dutch electro/R 'n' B/House trio Noisia.

Speaking about the genesis of the track, Moby said, “The song 'Alice' started with a mistake. There's this effect that I have, a very old proto-distortion pedal, and I was playing a bassline through it and there was something broken on the distortion pedal and it made this weird but fantastic feedback. So this song starts with this weird bass feedback, which is just a really happy mistake because it wasn't originally supposed to sound like that.”

"After writing the track I then sent it out to Aynzil and the 419 Squad, who contributed their amazing vocals. Aynzil's style is so fast and so dense and fluid, I think he's going to have a remarkable career. And what makes the 419 Squad so special is that they go back and forth between Yoruban (A dialect of West Africa with over 22 million speakers. It is spoken, among other languages, in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo) and English."

"Last Night" will be the first studio album from Moby following 2005's "Hotel".