Moby Shares New Video for “The Sorrow Tree” and Releases Live Album Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt (The EastWest Sessions)

Moby has released powerful new video for the song “The Sorrow Tree” from the album Everything was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt. The song is a beautiful swirling cycle of vocal progressions while in the video you get to see nature evolve right before your eyes. The constantly changing imagery is complimented perfectly by the songs soul-touching vocal melodies.

The album is Moby’s 15^th studio album and the follow up to 2017s More Fast Songs About the Apocalypse. Additionally Moby has released a live version of the critically acclaimed record called Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt (The East West Sessions).

Following a number of rare live performances in Los Angeles and New York this spring, Moby and his band set up at Hollywood’s infamous EastWest Studios which produced a number of Frank Sinatra hits, The Beach Boys’s legendary album Pet Sounds, and The Mamas and The Papas’s iconic “California Dreamin’.”

Moby says of the live sessions, “the album doesn’t really have any guitars on it and the drums are almost all programmed or sampled. When we added live drums and distorted live guitars, it took on a My Bloody Valentine sonic quality. I was surprised at how these delicate, melodic songs on the record sounded when they were played very loud with this wall of sound. The Jesus & Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine, for me at least, introduced the idea that distortion could be beautiful. Working on the live versions of these songs I was inspired by that idea.”

Rolling Stone says of Moby, “[Moby] explores the end of all things with subtlety and grandeur,” and Pitchfork said, “…the most vulnerable album Moby has made in years, one that doesn’t shy away from desolation and also acknowledges that, within helplessness, beauty can arise.”

Below is a track list for the live album.

1. Falling Rain and Light (Eastwest Session)
2. Ceremony of Innocence (Eastwest Session)
3.The Sorrow Tree (Eastwest Session)
4. Like A Motherless Child (Eastwest Session)
5. The Middle is Gone (Eastwest Session)
6. This Wild Darkness (Eastwest Session)
7. Mere Anarchy (Eastwest Session)
8. The Tired and the Hurt (Eastwest Session)
9. The Last of Goodbyes (Eastwest Session)

Photo Credit: Pamela Lin