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Album Review: Orange

Posted on July 3, 2009, review

"While there are delicious moments - the cracked beauty of 'Walk With Me', the broken push of 'Mistake', the womb-warm finale of 'Isolate' and the tender beauty of the title track all stand out - it is when the 16 tracks are interwoven, swaddling and surrounding you in a single sitting that the m

Interview: Music OHM

Posted on July 3, 2009, review

"The orchestral opener, Division, sets out the album's stall and by the time Pale Horses, featuring Amelia Zirin Brown on vocals, is over it's clear this is going to be a sedate, slightly bittersweet journey.

Album Review: Rolling Stone

Posted on July 1, 2009, review

"For a guy who made his name driving party people to ecstasy, Moby has always had a thing for the blues. His unlikely 1999 megahit, Play, used them literally, grafting ancient samples into inviting electronic grooves.

Album Review: Paste Magazine

Posted on July 1, 2009, review

"Wait for Me weaves a small-scale tapestry that succeeds on the strength of many little things done well: delicately recorded blends of acoustic and electronic instruments, lovely melodies not overburdened by outsized arrangements, voices at once powerful and intimate placed in settings that give

Album Review: Chicago Sun-Times

Posted on July 1, 2009, review

"A newly independent Moby reconnected with his roots on the dance floor and the spark of his 1992 breakthrough "Go" on his last release, "Last Night" (2008), and now, with the new "Wait for Me," he's finally made another album that recaptures the unique emotions of "Play," if not the then-startli

Album Review: Clash Music

Posted on June 30, 2009, review

"Early on, we find ‘Pale Horses’ revisiting former glories, but with strong results – a lonesome female vocal laments lost freedom and loved ones over steady street beats and wonky synth moans, and ‘Shot In The Back Of The Head’ is a moody instrumental pitched somewhere between Lynch’s horror-cla

Planetarium Review: BUST Magazine

Posted on May 29, 2009, live, review

"Last night a bunch of us went to an official Listening Party for Moby’s album ‘Wait for Me’ (which comes out June 30!). Aside from the music being serene and awesome, on top of an open bar, it was also at the Hayden Planetarium in the National History Museum in New York."

Planetarium Review: Black Book

Posted on May 29, 2009, live, review

"Planets! Stars! Moby! He’s up to his old shenanigans, with a cosmic twist. Mute Records hosted an album listening party last night for the new album, Wait for Me (dropping June 30) at the Natural History Museum’s Hayden Planetarium."