Summary: When Moby recorded “The Last Day,” for his 2013 album, Innocents, most didn't take the title literally. Well, as it turns out, it wasn't just a song. "The Last Day" really did happen, in 2012, and we are now apparently living in a post-apocalyptic world. Moby has the photographs to prove it. His new exhibit of photographs, also called Innocents, is up and running at the Emmanuel Fremin Gallery in New York through Dec. 30. "If you remember a few years ago, there was supposedly the Mayan apocalypse," Moby says in a conversation with Soundcheck host John Schaefer. "[But] maybe the apocalypse is rather like an unfolding. The more I thought about this, the more I thought there is a lot of evidence to support the idea that there is this benign apocalypse unfolding and we're a part of it. We have a progressive African-American president. Our next president will most likely be a wonderful, progressive woman. The world is generally moving in a more rational direction. And then there is a part of the world moving in a more atavistic, fear-based direction." Moby's photos were inspired by his experiences in New York on September 11th. "I was on Mott Street when September 11th happened," Moby recounts. "Apart from the horrifying things that happened that day, from a semiotic perspective, one of the most interesting things for me was that after 9/11, people would take pictures of banal things in Lower Manhattan, and suddenly they'd have all this relevance and meaning. That kind of informed the photo show. And then, to make it more interesting, I invented a cult." Moby also announced an upcoming re-release of his 2005 album Hotel -- with a bonus disc comprised of all Brian-Eno inspired ambient music. He will be performing two dates to promote its release, one of which will be at The Integratron in the desert outside of Joshua Tree. See more photos from the Innocents exhibit: Innocents (Courtesy of the Artist) Innocents (Courtesy of the Artist) Innocents (Courtesy of the Artist)
