Moby has revealed the official video for his special Record Store Day single with Mark Lanegan, “The Lonely Night.” Director Colin Rich describes it as “a temporal voyage from ruin and desolation into the edge of civilization and back again…from the ruinous rotted landscapes of the Salton Sea, through the seemingly endless expanse of the Mojave Desert, and to the electric edges of Los Angeles.”
As for the slow-burning song itself–a mix of muffled beats and lean synth lines that barely register above a whisper–Moby said, “Spike Stent and I incorporated some very unusual production techniques…We ran all of the instruments through a distortion pedal into a guitar amp. So really there are only 3 tracks: left channel through a distortion pedal and guitar amp, right channel through a distortion pedal and guitar amp, and Mark’s vocals. The end result is intentionally very broken and atmospheric.”
Check out “The Lonely Night” below and look out for its limited 7” single at your local indie shop this Saturday…
