Electronic music lifer Moby has announced his 23rd studio album, Future Quiet, due February 20, 2026 via BMG, and shared its opening track: a newly reworked version of When It’s Cold I’d Like To Die featuring Jacob Lusk of Gabriels. The song, first released in 1995, has taken on a second life in recent years through its use in Stranger Things, and here returns in orchestral form, slowed down and stripped back to its emotional core.
Future Quiet marks a deliberate turn toward restraint. Across eleven tracks, Moby leans into piano minimalism and ambient textures, framing the record as a response to constant digital noise and cultural acceleration. Rather than chasing scale or spectacle, the album positions quiet itself as the point, a space to pause rather than perform.
The new version of When It’s Cold I’d Like To Die sets the tone. Lusk’s voice carries the weight of the song without embellishment, moving the track away from its original trip-hop context and into something closer to a devotional lament. For Moby, it’s a continuation of a long-standing interest in stillness, shaped by influences ranging from Brian Eno to This Mortal Coil and Górecki.
That instinct has been present throughout Moby’s career. Born Richard Melville Hall in New York City, he emerged from the early-’90s underground with Go before becoming one of electronic music’s most visible figures at the turn of the millennium. Over three decades, he’s moved freely between techno, ambient, orchestral and acoustic work, selling more than 20 million albums and collaborating across genres with artists including David Bowie, Public Enemy and Daft Punk. In parallel, he’s maintained a public commitment to activism, mental health advocacy and creative access through initiatives like mobygratis.
With Future Quiet, Moby isn’t attempting reinvention so much as clarification. The album reframes familiar concerns, connection, overload, withdrawal, through a narrower sonic lens, suggesting that after years of expansion, reduction can be its own form of progress.
Stream When t’s Cold I’d like to Die HERE.
