[SONG OF THE DAY] Bob Moses - "Desire"

Jul 16

Written By kibbe

Everyone’s favorite makeout music makers, Bob Moses, have returned with a brand new single and news of a new album that will be out next month! The album is called Desire and it’s a concept album surrounding the positives and pitfalls of humanity’s driving wants in the digital age we’re living in. “Desire can become quite destructive if you're not self-aware. With this record, we’re trying to be self-aware by looking at our own desires and reckoning with them,” explains keyboardist Jimmy Vallance. “Stories about desire are timeless: Icarus flying too close to the sun and ending up falling to his death…that idea inspired the falling man on the album cover. That symbolized to us how desire can lead to a downfall.”

The duo has chosen to share the title track of the album as their initial offering, which is a collaboration with Grammy-nominated ZHU and it is…well let’s just say it’s aptly named(😍). It’s definitely a slight pivot to their signature sound, but I appreciate that ZHU definitely urged a different kind of energy out of them. They also unveiled an interactive video for the track, further demonstrating the pleasure/pain sides of desire. I was going to share it below but I can’t shut the autoplay off so you can head here to check it out. The below standard version is equally as demonstrative of the concept they’re going for.

The idea for the followup to their sophomore album, Battle Lines, came while the duo were out on their last European club tour as their original two-piece setup. “It was great being back in that environment and feeling the communal energy,” recounts Vallance. Singer Tom Howie adds,“We wanted to make something that was continuously mixed, something that would take the listener on a journey and replicate that feeling we try to create when we’re playing our sets in a club. We’ve appreciated the worlds created in concept records from bands like Pink Floyd and Nine Inch Nails. We thought it would be interesting to combine that kind of songwriting with the flow of modern electronic music.”

To celebrate the launch of Desire, Bob Moses will play a B2B livestream set with Blacklizt (a project by ZHU) as part of Insomniac’s Factory 93 “Secret Project Livestream”. That’s happening on Friday, July 17 at 4pm PT / 7pm ET HERE.

Desire is out on August 28th, 2020, courtesy of the fine folks at Domino.