Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt

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"I feel more activist than musician." Passing 50, Moby has adjusted his priorities, channeling the self-destructive energy of his youth (layed out in his colourful autobiography Porcelain) into multi-militantism - for animal rights and the defense of the environment, and basically against Donald Trump's policies. With this new album, Moby, still as active on social media, is working to portray the confusion in which the Americans live since the last presidential election, and which led them to make such "bad choices". "I want to shout at them, but I want to try to understand and be compassionate," he explained to Billboard. 

The portrait he draws of this America is - not surprisingly - very morose, as on the apocalyptic beginning Mere Anarchy, which is discouraged from listening with a glass of whiskey and a pistol at hand. What is to follow unfolds the lexical field of depression over trip-hop productions (probably for the melancholy inherent of the sound of Bristol) with The Tired and The Hurt, Welcome to Hard Times, The Sorrow Tree, and ending with A Dark Cloud Is Coming, or the resumption of the spiritual african with Motherless Child (with Raquel Rodriguez), a symbol of the suffering of the slaves. A sadly contemporary album... © Smaël Bouaici / Qobuz