All Visible Objects , the new album of Moby, released on may 15, found (a little) the rhythms that have made the success of the artist twenty years ago.

On Google, in the search suggestions, you can find “What is Moby’s famous for?” (“why Moby is he famous?”). Figure of the dance music of the 90’s, it has sold 20 million albums. Richard Melville Hall – of his “real” name – revisited the main theme of James Bond in 1997 (Tomorrow never dies) and then saw the consecration of the world from 1999 and the album Play. There “samplait”, on the planetary hit Natural Blues, the voice of the singer of the 1930’s.

Moby, California, last December.

– (Photo by Paul Archuleta/)

Thirty years later, Moby is a committed artist. The back-to-back-to-back grand-nephew of Herman Melville, the famous author of Moby Dick, which he was inspired to establish his pseudonym) has become eco-friendly and vegan. It has also opened a vegan restaurant in Los Angeles, Little Pine, in the neighborhood of Silver Lake. He is a democrat and pulls to red cannon balls on Donald Trump-length interviews. His new album, All Visible Objects – composed of eleven songs – is meant to be a political manifesto. On the cover, a sky of storm, above Los Angeles. The artist said he wanted to give the entire profit to eleven charitable associations, in favour of animal rights, and human rights. Either.

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An album-manifest

The title Power is Taken is a speech exalted against the oppressions chanted by the voice of D. H. Peligro, american musician drummer of the band the Dead Kennedys : “We hate oppression, we Must fight against the oppressors, We don’t share the power, It seizes power.” On the Refuge, it is the reggae musician british Linton Kwesi Johnson, who recites a single phrase: “To us who were of necessary birth, for the earth’s hard and thankless toil silence has no meaning” (“For we who were of birth necessary, for the toil of the earth, the silence has no meaning”). For the rest, there is a cover of the song of Roxy Music, My Only Love, as well as pieces more contemplative, with their melodies stabbing on the piano or the strings. And above all, there are here and there in the great big rhythm electro défoule and is tailor-made for the dancefloor. In this sense, the title which opens the album, Morningside, did a very foolish.

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