Moby 'The Day' Official video featuring Heather Graham - Moby 'The Day' Official video featuring Heather Graham

What this video is

Released in April 2011 as the lead single from Moby's tenth studio album 'Destroyed' (May 2011, Little Idiot/Mute Records), 'The Day' emerged during a period of renewed critical interest in atmospheric electronic music. The song drew explicit inspiration from David Bowie and Brian Eno's late-1970s Berlin-era productions and was written during Moby's touring insomnia in a Spanish hotel room. Lyrically, the song is…

Why it matters

Represents a key artifact of early-2010s ambient/atmospheric electronica's visual language, demonstrating how the genre adopted cinematic narrative video production to elevate emotionally personal electronic compositions. The video bridges Moby's Play-era celebrity-cameo video tradition with a…

The director

American director of commercials and music videos. Studied advertising design at Syracuse University and Saint Martin's School of Art and Design, London. Launched career directing Beastie Boys' 'Root Down' (1995) after befriending the band on the 1994…