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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Moby's Wait for Me Is Pleasant, Bland

Pitchfork describes album as 'background music in the purest sense'

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(Newser) – Moby’s latest album, Wait For Me, is a pleasant if forgettable trip to the artist’s softer, more ambient side, writes Jess Harvell for Pitchfork. Coming a decade after 1999’s Play, a record that perfectly captured the “post-rave” zeitgeist of pop at the time to become a smash hit, Wait For Me makes no effort to recapture old glories. Rather, Moby seems dedicated to pleasing his core listeners.

The record shifts between "easy-listening indie rock" and "easy-listening dance music," writes Harvell, mostly eschewing Moby’s own voice in favor of wispy female vocals. Although Wait For Me offers some “truly gorgeous sounds,” it fails to tie them together into cohesive songs, instead becoming “background music in the purest sense.”

In this CD cover image released by Mute Records, the latest by Moby,
In this CD cover image released by Mute Records, the latest by Moby, "Wait For Me," is shown.   (AP Photo/Mute)
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It's too listenable overall to be outright dismissed as some sort of flop. But it's too willfully unobtrusive and happy with its lack of ambition to try and sell as good pop, even in a year thin on the mediocre kind.
- Jess Harvel, Pitchfork

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NotEvsie
Jul 6, 09 6:55 PM CDT
that's exactly what I want from a Moby album to be honest, something in the background when I'm playing poker.. Reply
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Robert_Dada
Jul 6, 09 7:18 PM CDT
I'll take Psychic TV over this overrated schmuck any time.
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custum
Jul 6, 09 8:56 PM CDT
It's a good album Reply
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