

Twenty-three albums into his storied career, Moby is still finding inspiration from his earliest work. Future Quiet begins with “When It’s Cold I’d Like to Die,” a song that prior generations of Moby fans might recognize for different reasons. Originally released in 1995 on Everything Is Wrong and featuring Mimi Goese, the track had a massive resurgence thanks to its inclusion in Stranger Things. Now, Moby reimagines the song with help from Gabriels’ Jacob Lusk, offering a fascinating examination of the way Moby views his work as it reemerges in popular culture over 30 years after its initial release. It’s one of the louder, grander statements on the record, with many of the other recordings finding the songwriter embracing piano-led ambient compositions (“Great Absence”) and emotive drum-and-string arrangements (“Mott St 1992”). Throughout, Moby ties together the many strands of popular music that have fascinated him over the past three-plus decades.