Hear more from 'Innocents': http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpllqzgq8wPZfpXX4dHK9zI_8oC7p-sHz
Moby on 'The Last Day':
"Spike had become friends with Skyler Grey a few years ago. When I first started working on the record, we were coming up with list of possible collaborators, and her name came up. Skyler just has a remarkable gift for lyrics and melody, and her voice has such a distinctive, beautiful quality.
For 'The Last Day,' we collaborated on the lyrics and the performance: I wanted the vocal to have this specific, delicate vulnerability to it. The last thing I did to this song was add six tracks of Sonic Youth/Glenn Branca-style feedback: I put in earplugs, did open tunings on some guitars, put them through two distortion pedals into the amp, and just recorded track after track of feedback to create this weird subsonic wash. In it, the loud feedback is mixed really quiet, which gives the song a kind of atmospheric space the song wouldn't have otherwise."
'The Last Day' by Moby with Skylar Grey, taken from the album 'Innocents' out now.
Buy 'Innocents':
Deluxe CD: http://smarturl.it/innocents2cd?IQid=youtube.description
iTunes LP: http://smarturl.it/innocentsitunes?IQid=youtube.description
Double Gatefold LP + CD: http://smarturl.it/innocentslp?IQid=youtube.description
Hear more from 'Innocents':
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpllqzgq8wPZfpXX4dHK9zI_8oC7p-sHz
Moby on 'The Last Day':
"Spike had become friends with Skyler Grey a few years ago. When I first started working on the record, we were coming up with list of possible collaborators, and her name came up. Skyler just has a remarkable gift for lyrics and melody, and her voice has such a distinctive, beautiful quality.
For 'The Last Day,' we collaborated on the lyrics and the performance: I wanted the vocal to have this specific, delicate vulnerability to it. The last thing I did to this song was add six tracks of Sonic Youth/Glenn Branca-style feedback: I put in earplugs, did open tunings on some guitars, put them through two distortion pedals into the amp, and just recorded track after track of feedback to create this weird subsonic wash. In it, the loud feedback is mixed really quiet, which gives the song a kind of atmospheric space the song wouldn't have otherwise."