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Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt
Electronic · 2018 · 12 tracks · 56m

Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt

Moby

A return to late-night trip-hop roots infused with gospel soul. Heavy, analog-warm textures exploring existential grief and urban solitude.

March 2, 2018 · Little Idiot

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A heavy, soul-searching descent into urban melancholy that finds a strange beauty in existential despair.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks · 56m
01
Mere Anarchy
5:15
02
The Waste of Suns
4:45
03
Like a Motherless Child
4:37
04
The Last of Goodbyes
4:24
05
The Ceremony of Innocence
3:57
06
The Tired and the Hurt
4:28
07
Welcome to Hard Times
5:09
08
The Sorrow Tree
4:29
09
Falling Rain and Light
4:46
10
The Middle Is Gone
5:13
11
This Wild Darkness
4:09
12
A Dark Cloud Is Coming
5:25
Moments Worth Listening For
The way the gospel choir swells against the skeletal trip-hop beat in 'Like a Motherless Child', bridging the gap between 19th-century spirituals and 21st-century isolation.
The deep, dub-inflected bassline in 'Mere Anarchy' that feels like it's vibrating through the floorboards of a dark, empty room.
The transition into the final track 'A Dark Cloud Is Coming', where the atmosphere thickens into a dense, almost suffocating sonic fog.
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Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt sound next to the rest of Moby's catalogue?

Somber+4.0σ

Somber saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

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