“I gave myself the broad but specific criteria that the music had to have either been written or recorded in New York,” says the artist about his second dive into the orchestral world. By reimagining hits first heard between 1994 and 2010, he reflects not only an era in his life, but also his birthplace, one of the world’s most iconic cities. Beneath the noirish cover shot of Moby against the Empire State Building, the CD is housed in a digisleeve featuring a stunning image of the New York skyline by night. A 24-page booklet includes family photos from Moby’s childhood, as well as shots of the artist today, interspersed with further atmospheric pictures of the Big Apple, and the text of the introduction to Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell. Each of the legendary tracks on the album – including “In My Heart”, “South Side”, “Perfect Life”, “Slipping Away” and “When It’s Cold I’d Like to Die” – has its own instrumental formation, with analogue synths and Mellotron used alongside more traditional strings and brass. Joining Moby on Resound NYC are a chamber ensemble and a line-up of guest artists as eclectic as it is stellar, including Nicole Scherzinger, Gregory Porter, Ricky Wilson, Margo Timmins and Amythyst Kiah.