Artist: Moby
Title: Play
Genre: Downtempo, Electronica, Ambient Techno, Alternative/Indie Rock
Label: Mute Records Ltd.
Release Date: 1999/2014
Quality: High-Fidelity FLAC Stereo 96kHz/24bit
Source: Qobuz
Duration: 01:03:05
Recorded: 1998–1999
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
Tracklist:
1 Honey 3:28
2 Find My Baby 3:59
3 Porcelain 4:01
4 Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? 4:24
5 South Side 3:49
6 Rushing 3:00
7 Bodyrock 3:36
8 Natural Blues 4:13
9 Machete 3:37
10 7 1:02
11 Run On 3:45
12 Down Slow 1:35
13 If Things Were Perfect 4:18
14 Everloving 3:25
15 Inside 4:48
16 Guitar Flute & String 2:09
17 The Sky Is Broken 4:18
18 My Weakness 3:37
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