Moby

Editor's Review:

As the ethereal and futuristic sounds of the opening track "Dead Sun" hit your ears, you must read the powerful and articulate liner notes explaining Moby's philosophy about Republicans, being a Vegan, and his disgust with the Christian Coalition. It reveals Moby as an artist who thinks as well as feels his way through the world with his music, a listening experience which sustains with powerful range and depth.

From the punk ragings of "Someone to Love" to the unstoppable anger of "Heavy Flow," Moby reaches out with the diverse sounds of his screaming guitars - not just to express his outrage - but to show the joy in releasing the inner hostility of modernist angst.

The guitar as centerpiece on this CD comes in many shapes and sizes, either biting with rasping, bitter distortion or tumbling into your ear with bell-like chimes of plucked clarity. Laser-like vocals beam in and out as guitars work with the pumping, grinding rhythms of "Animal Rights," where tracks such as "Living" are for the thinking man's rave. While softer tracks such as "Now I Let it Go" and "Soft" will lull you with delicate touches, the hip-hop shifts and punches of "Anima" provide a nice contrast.

The hip-hop aspects of his later release, Play, are here, though not as fully proportioned. "Animal Rights" works to create a powerful and exotic sonic landscape - an unconscious land where Moby wanders about inside of surreal sounds, a musical Dalí painting where notes melt with every touch.

Heat Factor: Three half pipe grinds and two nose slides.

- Kilgore Trout


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Record Label Elektra Records Released April 1999

Tracks Dead Sun Someone To Love Heavy Flow You Now I Let It Go Come On Baby Soft Anima Say It's All Mine That's When I Reach For My Revolver Alone Face It Old Living Love Song For My Mom A Season In Hell

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