Product Description
Brand New ~ Sealed! Special Reissue Edition On 180 Gram 2LP Audiophile Vinyl. Includes Inner Sleeves. Outstanding Smash Hit Breakbeat Album From Moby!
Side 1:
Honey
Find My Baby
Porcelain
Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
Side 2:
South Side
Rushing
Bodyrock
Natural Blues
Side 3:
Machete
7
Run On
Down Slow
If Things Were Perfect
Everloving
Side 4:
Inside
Guitar Flute & String
The Sky Is Broken
My Weakness
AMG –
On ‘Play’, Moby perfected his evocative, melancholy techno that had been a specialty since his early days. 4 ½ Stars 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. 4 ½ Stars