New Release: Moby

Reprise

Musical pioneer Moby releases his new album Reprise, out May 28 on Deutsche Grammophon.

Reprise sees Moby revisiting and reimagining musical highlights from his 30-year career.

Together with the Budapest Art Orchestra, he has re-envisioned some of his most recognizable rave classics and anthems with new arrangements for orchestra and acoustic instruments.

He’s also joined by a stellar line-up of guest artists from across the musical spectrum, including Alice Skye, Amythyst Kiah, Apollo Jane, Darlingside, Gregory Porter, Jim James, Kris Kristofferson, Luna Li, Mark Lanegan, Mindy Jones, Nataly Dawn, Skylar Grey and Vikingur Ã?lafsson.

It’s but a small sampling of Moby’s varied work (which spans over three decades), but when presented in string-heavy arrangements and supported by an updated cast of charactersâ??from the well-known to the emergingâ??Reprise feels like a complete collection.

Sound choice of the week: black midi

Cavalcade

’Cavalcade’ is the second album by young London math rock band black midi, and has been eagerly anticipated following their hugely acclaimed and Mercury Prize-nominated 2019 debut, ’Schlagenheim’.

Elements of noise rock, the harder prog of the likes of King Crimson, the organised chaos of Captain Beefheart’s ’Trout Mask Replica’, experimental, free jazz and jazz rock, and ’90s Chicago post-rock are all thrown in and bolted together seemingly at will, such is the dexterity of the BRIT School-educated band members.

Their music is definitely at the more challenging end of the current wave of British and Irish groups being labelled as ’Post Punk’ (Fontaines DC, Shame, Squid, and Black Country, New Road for example), but it’s also thrilling to hear such a band break through with a sound which is so disorienting, dazzling and demanding.