The electronica singer Moby has unveiled the video for his brand new single "The Day," starring Heather Graham as a beautiful angel who slays demons. "The Day" is the lead single from Moby's forthcoming tenth studio album "Destroyed," due out on May 16. Moby surprised us with a glammed-out, synth-heavy ode, the track can be loosely described as a return to a more electronic sound, which was less found on his last album "Wait For Me," which was more ambiental in nature.Indirectly inspired by David Bowie and Brian Eno's production circa Low and Heroes (which Moby believes is now part of his DNA), the song is one of the few tracks from "Destroyed" that Moby himself sang on. Moby talked about the track on his website blog and he'd said "'The Day' was written in a hotel room in Spain at dawn when I hadn't slept. It was a beautiful hotel room, a beautiful perfect hotel room and it was six or seven in the morning. I wrote it on a acoustic guitar and recorded it on my phone, brought it home and re-recorded it with old broken down electronics that I have in my studio."
A deeply personal song about late night desperation and dark-night-of-the-soul disquietude, the video for "The Day," directed by Evan Bernard and eyeball, features Moby's friend and actress Graham in the role of a nurse/guardian angel "who gets to slaughter demons," explains Moby. "I had this simple idea of Heather as an angel in a hospital. Evan expanded upon it and made it a lot more interesting, a lot more compelling." Even with the thinly-veiled Christian metaphors, the surreal imagery of Graham floating through the air and Moby performing on the ceiling like a spiritual Lionel Richie make for a true visual treat to accompany a sonic step toward the sublime.
The basic plot of the video, according to Graham, is "a woman is lying in a hospital bed and I am the nurse and I give her some oxygen. Then it cuts to me as the angel flying, and then you see this scary demon." The director elaborates: "She (the angel) is the defender of righteousness. She represents good, and she's defeating evil." Climaxing in a metaphysical battle between demon and angel, the video is filled with surreal imagery in an eerie clinical setting.
