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Mobley’s career has been a fun, transformative one over the last decade. You heard that right, we’ve been talking about and championing Mobley for almost ten years. What started as writing smart R&B pop bops has grown into full concept albums revolving around racism, technology, and our future, composing cautionary tales warning of a regressing society and the darkest parts of Science-Fiction decaying into neither predictive science nor fiction.
Mobley’s upcoming album We Do Not Fear Ruins continues the story of Jacob Creedmoor, the protagonist at the center of Mobley’s 2022 EP Cry Havoc!. This time, we’re 300 years in the future, and our hero has woken up in a post-apocalyptic America, realizing that everyone he’s known and loved is long gone and his legacy seemingly lost to time. Grief and solitude set in.
As the last proper song on the album, “Yesterday’s Another Day” brings us to Creedmoor overcoming his struggles in the current time and redirecting his mission. Our protagonist finds a beautiful metaphor for the post-apocalyptic ruin he’s surrounded by. Ruin can mean recalibration and change. And Mobley punctuates this with an apropos bop that dances between R&B and psych pop.
The song is accompanied by a video made to look like an early-80’s variety show (the era our hero was frozen in in between albums) and was even shot on a 1981 Sony Trinicon for full, unfiltered authenticity.
