Moby: Wait for Me

Moby begins each song with some mild rhythm and circular sequence of synthesizers. Then he repeats the thing until we, the listening audience, have been hypnotized. He throws timid singers into echo chambers and captures 3 to 5 lines from them. “Study War” uses the old trick of sampling a spoken word piece to create an effect. After 4 minutes of the quote, I’m ready to disregard the song’s message of peace. Ultimately Moby provides 16 tracks of cool sounds that could have been condensed into 6 interesting songs. That kills the LP, but those would be 6 awesome songs.

Rating: * * *

Advertisement