- Label
- Mute
- Release date
- 29th June 2009
- Genre
- Electronica
- Buy this album
- Order CD
New York electro-auteur crafts more sumptuous symphonies.
Ever since the global mega-success of 1999’s magnificently melancholic Play, Moby’s albums have increasingly yielded diminishing returns. Inspired by a speech on creativity by film noir director David Lynch, Wait For Me might just be the record to reverse that trend.
This time around, Moby has eschewed digitalia and NASA-level studios in favour of home recording on analogue equipment and he gains from the consequent increase in intimacy. Tracks such as Walk With Me and A Seated Night are reverb-heavy poetic reveries around a humming electro-pulse that would have sat easily on Play.
Best of all, though, is Mistake, a haunting and visceral lament that reminds us that Moby began his career, 15 years ago, as a gifted techno-geek infatuated with New Order. Wait For Me may be profoundly unlikely to repeat the stellar sales success of Play but at its best it is a moving, elegiac delight.
More to try:
William Orbit: My Oracle Lives Uptown
Robert Miles: Dreamland
Sabres of Paradise: Haunted Dancehall
