Moby - Wait For Me [6/30]

Artist:

Moby

See Also:

Lopez

Description:

Personnel: Moby (various instruments).
Audio Mixers: Andy Marcinkowski; Ken Thomas.
Following the decadent, club-style excursions of 2008`s HOTEL, Moby returns for a more contemplative sound on the melancholic WAIT FOR ME. Working through deeply personal material and a more intimate, though at times cinematic, sound palette, the album ranks as among his best in over 10 years.
Moby`s most unified and understated album, and all the better for it, WAIT FOR ME is a morose set of elegantly bleary material, quite a shift from the hedonistic club tracks of LAST NIGHT. Dominated by instrumentals, "Shot in the Back of the Head" is the most evocative of the bunch, seemingly pulled from an unreleased David Lynch film scored by the Afghan Whigs circa GENTLEMEN--a lament from a dustbowl, full of mournful slide guitar and dewy electric piano. Other than "Mistake"--a glum neo-post-punk rave-up that, despite its cathartic release, remains downcast--Moby leaves the vocals to a series of females (neighborhood chums, apparently) who each contribute to one song. The smoky 3-A.M. gospel whispers from throwback soul singer Leela James on "Walk with Me" steal the show.

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Division
2. Pale Horses
3. Shot In the Back of the Head
4. Study War
5. Walk With Me
6. Stock Radio
7. Mistake
8. Scream Pilots
9. JLTF-1
10. JLTF
11. Seated Night, A
12. Wait For Me
13. Hope is Gone
14. Ghost Return
15. Show Light
16. Isolate

Album Information

Release Date:

06/30/2009

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Subgenre:

Alternative

Label:

Mute Records

Producer:

Moby

Catalog Number:

Mut 9416-2

Original Release Year:

2009

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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