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Has anybody heard this yet? The better question is: why should anybody care? It's Moby, after all. Well, I'll tell you why. His latest album doesn't TOTALLY stink. It doesn't make me want to vomit ALL the fucking time. "Last Night" doesn't make me want to delete the letters M, O, B & Y from the English alphabet to never hear his miserable name again. Not like, oh, during the past 10 years or so. In fact, I would go as far as to say Moby has made a sub-average dance album here. That's saying a lot. First of all, he hasn't done "dance" as much as "shit pop" lately. Second of all, his attempts at electronic music on the previous albums since Play have deteriorated into endless self-repetitions of the ethno-string melodrama formula, OR in the obnoxiously weak gay dance territory. But here, in 2008, Moby gives us a weak, barely interesting, cheesier-than-the-moon New York club dance album - which is the best he has done in a decade. Hurray! It feels like 1989 all over again. Well, not quite. Not, despite the fact that one track is called "Everyday It's 1989". No, this is not acid house. This is not New York, London or Berlin circa the Second Summer of Love. This is Richard Melville Hall, aka Moby, giving us a snapshot look at a career that spans two decades. He is trying to be emotional here, like a contrived family photo. He is almost doing interesting things here. With beats and stuff. But not quite. It's not interesting enough. It's still not authentic. Those funky hi-hats don't get you far. It's not enough. The music is as deep as a dinner plate and the sounds as lush as Manhattan vegetation in December. So, why should we care? It's easy: because Moby shows us here that he can make us forget about his existence and even to give him some slack by producing mediocre, thin, forgettable trash like this album - trash that doesn't make us sick in the stomach, but only slightly displeased. A worthy 5/10. |
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Although my first loves are Autechre, Aphex Twin, etc Moby is fine with me. I think he's done some terrific music, most of his best work being his singles "Go", "Honey", "We Are Made of Stars", "Natural Blues". Last Night is the first CD of his I picked up since Play, and though some of his ideas on this album sound recycled from the past it doesn't sound like throwaway material (most of it anyway). I get chills from those opening seconds from "Hyena". "Alice" and "Disco Lies" are also faves. I'd rate it a tad higher, maybe 7/10. |
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What's that foul smelling brown paste coming out of the hole in the back every now and then? Does anybody else have that?!? |
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I do, except it's clear and oily. I went to the doctor about it and even they didn't know what it was. |
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what a pile of fucking shit. fucking moron, what happened to him. |
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It's actually shite from what I've heard. I didn't mind Hotel either.... *runs and hides* |
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It's good that someone's defending him! Like I said, I think it's his best album in a long time. There's still so many things I don't like about it, but at least I'm OK with it. It's not as obnoxious as Hotel (sorry futureimage), and not as derivative as 18. It may still be shite, but it doesn't stink that foul. |
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I have absolutely no relationship to Moby, but I like how your review was written. KUDOS. |
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cheers! |
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You put a lot of thought into your (semi-)negative review above, instead of tossing out a stupid one-liner. A post like that deserves more constructive replies than what has been mostly posted here. I love glitch/IDM much more, but sometimes I wanna break from it and listen to something like Moby. ...guess it's equivalent to a Death Metal fan admitting to having a soft spot for Bon Jovi. |
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Heh, I can totally dig that... We all have our guilty pleasures. |
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