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  • Artist: Moby
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2009
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • UPC: 878037010428
  • Item Number: DOW701042
  • Release date: 08/18/2009
  • . If Things Were Perfect
  • . Summer
  • . Everloving
  • . Whispering Wind
  • . Find My Baby
  • . Honey
  • . Spirit
  • . Guitar Flute & String
  • . Sunday
  • . Bodyrock
  • . My Weakness
  • . 7
  • . Machete
  • . Inside
  • . Porcelain
  • . Flying Over the Dateline
  • . Memory Gospel
  • . South Side
  • . The Sky Is Broken
  • . Running
  • . Sunspot
  • . Down Slow
  • . Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
  • . Run On
  • . Flying Foxes
  • . Flower
  • . The Sun Never Stops Setting
  • . Natural Blues
  • . Rushing
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Following a notorious flirtation with alternative rock, Moby returned to the electronic dance mainstream on the 1997 album I Like to Score. With 1999's Play, he made yet another leap back toward the electronica base that had passed him by during the mid-'90s. The first two tracks, "Honey" and "Find My Baby," weave short blues or gospel vocal samples around rather disinterested breakbeat techno. This version of blues-meets-electronica is undoubtedly intriguing to the all-important NPR crowd, but it is more than just a bit gimmicky to any techno fans who know their Carl Craig from Carl Cox. Fortunately, Moby redeems himself in a big way over the rest of the album with a spate of tracks that return him to the evocative, melancholy techno that's been a specialty since his early days. The tinkly piano line and warped string samples on "Porcelain" frame a meaningful, devastatingly understated vocal from the man himself, while "South Side" is just another pop song by someone who shouldn't be singing -- that is, until the transcendent chorus redeems everything. Surprisingly, many of Moby's vocal tracks are highlights; he has an unerring sense of how to frame his fragile vocals with sympathetic productions. Occasionally, the similarities to contemporary dance superstars like Fatboy Slim and Chemical Brothers are just a bit too close for comfort, as on the stale big-beat anthem "Bodyrock." Still, Moby shows himself back in the groove after a long hiatus, balancing his sublime early sound with the breakbeat techno evolution of the '90s. ~ John Bush, Rovi
  • Artist: Moby
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2009
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • UPC: 878037010428
  • Item Number: DOW701042
  • Release date: 08/18/2009
  • Label: Downtown
  • Genre: Pop/Rock, Electronic
  • Style: House, Alternative Pop/Rock, Techno, Club/Dance, Trance, Ambient Techno, Electronica, Alternative/Indie Rock
  • Album Time: 0:00

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