Moby - Wait For Me
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Artist: MobyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-06-30
Music Label: Mute
Soundtracks:
- Division
- Pale Horses
- 1. Shot In the Back of the Head
- Study War
- Walk With Me
- Stock Radio
- Mistake
- Scream Pilots
- JLTF 1
- JLTF
- A Seated Night
- Wait For Me
- Hope Is Gone
- Ghost Return
- Slow Light
- Isolate
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Free Music Review: Moby. "Wait for Me." Genius.
Hit: 5 Stars
Moby is a genius. Enough said. With the release of Moby's ninth studio album, "Wait for Me," on June 30th, Moby has once again reinforced the fact that he is a true artist, someone who is constantly searching yet at the same time uncannily adept at transferring a vision to reality. "Wait for Me" is a far different album than the 2008 release "Last Night." This is not some standard "get out on the dance floor" inspiring electronica fare, which rave kids with glowsticks will hungrily devour. Not at all. This album is something else, something perhaps more mature. Think about the morning after a night of raving, that moment of twilight just before the sun rises where you are caught in a state of lucidity, still amped from the previous night, but also bordering on exhaustion, watching a blurred, awakening world race past you from a car window. This is "Wait for Me."
Yes, "Wait for Me" is an electronic album, completely written, engineered and produced by Moby. But can we really define it as simply "electronic?" The album is more like a rhythmic blend of southern blues, gospel and smoky jazz, continuously morphing and changing from one moment to the next. "Wait for Me" is a journey, a progression through time from the past of what used to be to that which is about to become. The album could be described as being melancholic, or even hauntingly melodic, but in fact it has much more depth than the superficial layers of the label of those emotions. Listening to "Wait for Me" straight through reveals the grandness of its cinematic nature while maintaing a deeply individualistic and personal level of insight. Seriously, close your eyes and listen to some of the instrumental songs such as "Shot in the Back of the Head" and you'll see what I mean. The almost backwards sounding synthed guitar riffs drive you forward, telling a story that is uniquely your own.
What stands out tremendously though on "Wait for Me" are the singers that Moby has chosen for the handful of songs that have vocals. The women on the album are without equal, projecting at the same time both depth and despair, strength and vulnerability. The voices of Amelia Ziria Brown ("Pale Horses"), Starr Blackshere ("Study War"), Leela James ("Walk With Me"), Melody Zimmer ("JLTF"), Kelli Scarr ("Wait for Me") and Hilary Gardner ("Hope is Gone") all completely coalesce with Moby's vision for the album, becoming part of a cohesive whole, without any disjointedness of division. What is presented is a complete progression of thought, with the amazing vocals creating a world that possesses both an ethereal and biting quality.
The music, all of which is of course played by Moby, reflects this same dichotomy. At one moment there are sweepingly languid orchestral strings and the next there is a driving guitar. What is being created is an amalgamate of varying influences, all coming together to define a state of being. While lyrically songs with verses such as, "You never felt this lost before. The world is closing doors." and "Put me on the train. Send me back to my home." may seem based in the despair of melancholia, this album is not dark. You have to listen closely, but there is an element of hope there. Even with songs such as "Study War," reminiscent of the 1971 Gil Scott-Heron B-side "The Revolution Will be Televised," there is the assertion that, "The battle will be over." Moby layers so much into each of his songs that even the barely audible chorals in the backgrounds of some of the pieces may only be heard when the music is cranked up to eleven or when listened to through a pair of Bose headphones. The elements are there, seemingly just out of reach, but waiting to be discovered to expose a whole new layer of meaning. The fact is, each song is elegantly crafted to convey Moby's vision and to take the listener on a journey to somewhere they most likely have never been before before.
I highly recommend that you take the journey. You will be glad you did.
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While listening to filmmaker David Lynch speak at the BAFTA Awards in February 2008, Moby had an epiphany. Lynch's message- creativity for its own sake is a beautiful, wonderful thing- was a simple one, but it hit Moby with the force of the Zen master's cane. "At that moment, I decided to just make records that were more personal," says Moby, "maybe more experimental, and a little more challenging, maybe not as easy to like, but things that I found to be artistically and creatively more satifying. That was the idea behind making the new album."The album resulting from this epiphany, Wait For Me, is a radical departure from Moby's recent albums- last year's paean to the dance floor, Last Night, 2008's flirtation with modern rock, Hotel, the shimmering ambience of 2002's 18, and the zeitgeist-defining melancholy electronica of 1999's Play. Liberated from the pressures of trying to please himself at the same time as the industry, in making Wait For Me Moby decided to forego the expensive studios, state-of-the-art equipment, big name guest artists, and phalanxes of graphic designers and image consultants that have characterized some of his previous albums. "There's something so relaxing about doing everything yourself, and not trying to second-guess the market," Moby says. "It's nice to try to do things for the right reasons- just make a record because you want to make a record."
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