Moby - Hotel
Posted by: Rasher on 15 March 2005
Great bundle of interactive computer stuff with the CD. Tons of stuff to play with for hours.
Shame the music isn't up to much. To me, it sounds like a Beautiful South album.
After 18 & Play, this is disappointing.
Shame the music isn't up to much. To me, it sounds like a Beautiful South album.
After 18 & Play, this is disappointing.
Posted on: 15 March 2005 by Hawk
shit, i just ordered it on amazon a couple of hours ago
Posted on: 16 March 2005 by Rasher
Just my opinion Hawk.. you may like it!
Posted on: 16 March 2005 by Ian P
The track played on Radio 6 last Friday evening got poor reviews. Can't remember the track name, but it left me cold too.
In a review in the Freebie "Metro" newspaper the description was basically "Lift muzac" (perhaps quite appropriately).
Changing tack, does anyone know if the original music Moby used on Play is available on current release ? Specifically that used for Natural Blues ?
In a review in the Freebie "Metro" newspaper the description was basically "Lift muzac" (perhaps quite appropriately).
Changing tack, does anyone know if the original music Moby used on Play is available on current release ? Specifically that used for Natural Blues ?
Posted on: 16 March 2005 by oldie
No Rasher,
From what I heard,last night, or to be more specific,what I didn't hear, I would agree with you whole heartedly,only I would attach the prefix "VERY"
oldie.
From what I heard,last night, or to be more specific,what I didn't hear, I would agree with you whole heartedly,only I would attach the prefix "VERY"
oldie.
Posted on: 19 March 2005 by Hawk
Well ive had the album for a few days now and to cut a long story short after a few listens i cant think of any reason to play it much more... Very disappointing..
Posted on: 19 March 2005 by Squonk
Actually quite like it but is one of those CD's I would only play in the car. Seen plenty of 3/5 reviews for it but did see this one in the Telegraph that gives a completely different perspective
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Moby
Hotel, Mute, £12.99
This is a thoroughly beautiful album, created in his Manhattan apartment studio by Moby almost single-handedly, with the occasional assistance of a real drummer. And, unlike his 10-million-selling Play, it contains no vocal samples, but is sung mostly by Moby himself (again, helped occasionally by a real singer, guest vocalist Laura Brown) in a delivery that is somewhat deadpan, but in which quiverings of emotion can be detected.
What's beautiful about it? Well, the tunes, for one thing: one after another they come, rich and memorable, pumping with energy or gently drifting, with some, such as the glorious Spiders, possessing that quality of all great melodies of having seemingly been plucked, ready-made, from the ether, rather than merely written. The instrumentation is lush, rounded, gorgeous, a typically Mobyian mixture of "real" instruments and synthesizers.
But what's most beautiful about Hotel is its emotional flavour. In this newspaper recently Moby talked about the fact that the English language lacks a word to describe two antithetical emotional states, such as longing and satisfaction. Here he has achieved that synthesis in sound: it's both happy and sad, uplifting and downbeat, fearless and scary, warm and cold, joyful and bleak. Only music can do this. And only Moby can do it this beautifully. David Cheal
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Moby
Hotel, Mute, £12.99
This is a thoroughly beautiful album, created in his Manhattan apartment studio by Moby almost single-handedly, with the occasional assistance of a real drummer. And, unlike his 10-million-selling Play, it contains no vocal samples, but is sung mostly by Moby himself (again, helped occasionally by a real singer, guest vocalist Laura Brown) in a delivery that is somewhat deadpan, but in which quiverings of emotion can be detected.
What's beautiful about it? Well, the tunes, for one thing: one after another they come, rich and memorable, pumping with energy or gently drifting, with some, such as the glorious Spiders, possessing that quality of all great melodies of having seemingly been plucked, ready-made, from the ether, rather than merely written. The instrumentation is lush, rounded, gorgeous, a typically Mobyian mixture of "real" instruments and synthesizers.
But what's most beautiful about Hotel is its emotional flavour. In this newspaper recently Moby talked about the fact that the English language lacks a word to describe two antithetical emotional states, such as longing and satisfaction. Here he has achieved that synthesis in sound: it's both happy and sad, uplifting and downbeat, fearless and scary, warm and cold, joyful and bleak. Only music can do this. And only Moby can do it this beautifully. David Cheal