electronica
Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that started in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mostly used to r ...
musician
Moby
Richard Melville Hall (born September 11, 1965), known professionally as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter, singer, producer, and animal rights activist. He has sold 20 million records worldwide. AllMusic considers him to be "among the ...
. It was released as the first official single from his eleventh
studio album
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'' Innocents'' on July 1, 2013. The track is a collaboration with Canadian singer-songwriter
Cold Specks
Cold Specks is the stage name of Somali Canadian singer-songwriter Ladan Hussein, who was previously known as Al Spx. Her music has been described as doom-soul. The name Cold Specks is taken from a line in James Joyce's ''Ulysses'' ("Born all in ...
.
Background
Moby first came into contact with Cold Specks due to their mutual connection as
Mute Records
Mute Records is a British independent record label owned and founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller. It has featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Depeche Mode, Erasure, Einstürzende Neubauten, Fad Gadget, Goldfrapp, Grinderm ...
label mates, and after listening to her 2012 album ''
I Predict a Graceful Expulsion
''I Predict a Graceful Expulsion'' is the debut album by Cold Specks
The album was named as a long-listed nominee for the 2012 Polaris Music Prize on June 14, 2012. The two recorded the songs "A Case for Shame" and "Tell Me", the former in November 2012 while Cold Specks was on tour in the United Kingdom. Cold Specks described the recording process as "a very free, collaborative, creative environment... He was really open to what I was doing and luckily he liked what I was doing and it worked really well."
Music video
The music video for "A Case of Shame" was directed by Moby and released on July 17, 2013. Filmed in a pool in his Los Angeles home, the clip's premise was described by Moby as being about "an after-life inhabited by people who are concealing themselves because of shame."
Track listing
* Digital download
#"A Case for Shame" – 5:48
#"A Case for Shame" – 5:58
#"A Case for Shame" – 6:19
* Digital download – remixes
#"A Case for Shame" – 8:42
#"A Case for Shame" – 8:38
#"A Case for Shame" – 6:33
#"A Case for Shame" – 6:34