One word: disco. The show on January 5, 2010 should have come with a strobe-light epilepsy disclaimer.

Admittedly, it wasn’t what I expected from Moby at the famed (and very civilised daaarling) Sydney Opera House. But five minutes into his set, the softly-spoken and very grateful (thankyou-thankyou-thankyou-thankyou…) Richard Melville Hall brought out the strobe lights and had us jumping out of our seats, fists pumping the air. I’ve heard people claim this was one of the best gigs of their life, and frankly it comes as no surprise.

The Little Idiot AKA Moby (we’re not being mean, that’s his own name for the l’il guy below) is giving away the title track from his new album Wait For Me via Soundcloud. Cheers mate!

To download it, hit the arrow button on the right-hand-side of the audio player. If you like what you hear, you can get the album in full from iTunes etc.

And just a reminder that the man himself will be gracing Australian shores this December for the Sunset Sounds & Falls Fests. Epic N-Y-Eves will be had.

Our good friends over at Groupie have kicked off a one-week exclusive album stream of Moby’s new longplayer, Wait For Me. You know the instructions: don’t wait and get on over to Groupie to take a listen to this gem of a new album.

A David Lynch video and a few words from the mouth (or rather, the typing fingers) of The Maestro Moby:

hi, so, on june 26th i’m releasing my next album, ‘wait for me’.

i recorded the album here in my studio on the lower east side (although ’studio’ always seems like an overly grand word for a bunch of equipment set up in a bedroom). in the past i’ve worked in large and small studios, but for this record i wanted to record everything at home by myself.

i have some friends singing on the record. they’re great singers, but unless you live in fort greene or washington heights you might not know about them, as they’re relatively unknown (working with friends is almost always nicer than working with rockstars).

i started working on the album about a year ago, and the creative impetus behind the record was hearing a david lynch speech at bafta, in the uk.

david was talking about creativity, and to paraphrase, about how creativity in and of itself, and without market pressures, is fine. it seems as if too often an artists or musicians or writers creative output is judged by how well it accommodates the marketplace, and how much market share it commands and how much money it generates.

in making this record i wanted to focus on making something that i loved, without really being concerned about how it might be received by the marketplace. as a result it’s a quieter and more melodic and more mournful and more personal record than some of the records i’ve made in the past. it’s also, for better or worse, all homemade, in that i recorded it at home with my friends and drew the artwork with a black sharpie on copy paper.

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