As an artist, Moby dances in many weddings: as a singer, songwriter, remixer, author and filmmaker. But he also likes to be a multi-stylistic musician who sets no limits for himself. In over 30 years he has tried out pretty much everything from hardcore punk and alternative rock to house and ambient to orchestral works. On his 23rd studio album FUTURE QUIET, the 60-year-old pleads for a quiet future in the face of a world that in many areas only screams at its inhabitants.
It is a collection of piano pieces and ambient orchestral miniatures where the association machine immediately spits out names like Roger Eno, Henryk Górecki or David Sylvian. The trick with this type of music, somewhere in the no man’s land between impressionism, art pop and contemporary classical, is not to slip into kitsch.
And Moby mostly succeeds in this. Also with the support of a number of guest singers. Jacob Lusk (of Gabriels fame), for example, gives the orchestral new recording of the 1995 Moby hit “When It’s Cold, I’d Like To Die” a sacred atmosphere.
This review appears in Musikexpress 3/2026.
