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From one of the very most interesting and iconic music artists of our own time, a piercingly soft, funny, and harrowing accounts of the road from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor, and improbable success out of the NYC club scene of the late '80s and '90s. There were multiple reasons Moby was never heading to make it as a DJ and musician in the New York club scene. This was the New York of Palladium; of Mars, Limelight, and Twilo; of unchecked, drug-fueled hedonism in pumping golf clubs where dance music was still basically underground, popular chiefly among working-class African Us citizens and Latinos. And then there was Moby - not just a poor, skinny white child from Connecticut but a devout Christian, a vegan, and a teetotaler. He'd learn what it was to be spat on, to live on almost nothing. But it was possibly the last good time for an musician to live on nothing in New York City: the age of AIDS and crack but also of any defiantly festive social underworld. Not without episode, he found his way. But success was not uncomplicated; it led to wretched, if in hindsight sometimes entertaining, excess and proved all too fleeting. And so by the finish of the 10 years, Moby contemplated a finish in his career and in other places in his life and put that emotion into what he assumed would be his swan tune, his good-bye to all or any that, the recording that could in reality be the beginning of an astonishing new period: the multimillion-selling Play. Simultaneously bighearted and remorseless in its excavation of any lost world, Porcelain is both a chronicle of any city and a time and a deeply personal exploration of finding one's place through the most gloriously restless period in life, if you are by yourself, betting on yourself, but do not know how the history ends, and that means you live with the honest dread that you're one bogus step from being thrown out on that person. Moby's tone resonates with credibility, wit, and most importantly an unshakable enthusiasm for his music that steered him through some very rough seas. Porcelain is approximately making it, losing it, loving it, and hating it. It's about finding your people, your house, considering you've lost them both, and then somehow, when you think it's over, from a location of well-earned despair, setting up a masterpiece. As a family portrait of the young musician, Porcelain is a masterpiece in its own right, fit for the short list of music artists' memoirs that shoot not just a scene but an time and something amazing about the human condition. Push "play".