Moby - Hotel
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Artist: MobyBrand: Baker & Taylor
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-03-22
Model: 00638812724328
Music Label: V2
Soundtracks:
- Hotel Intro
- Raining Again
- Beautiful
- Lift Me Up
- Where You End
- Temptation
- Spiders
- Dream About Me
- Very
- I Like It
- Love Should
- Slipping Away
- Forever
- Homeward Angel
Music reviews of Hotel
Music Review: Mark Teppo's IGLOOMAG.com REVIEW...
Rating: 1 Stars
Review by MARK TEPPO at igloomag.com
(03.23.05) Shortly after 18 was released, I seem to remember an interview with Moby where he laid the blame for depressed sales of that record on the shoulders of the peer-to-peer file networks. "Kids," he claimed, "are trading my record instead of purchasing it." I didn't buy the argument because every CD store I visited (and I visit a lot of them, music whore that I am) had four to six USED copies of 18 in their bins. No, Moby, the kids weren't stealing your record; they just weren't buying it because they thought it was terrible.
I'm reminded of this as I listen to Hotel, Moby's latest bid for rawk star status. I must have missed the announcement where Moby came clean with his desire to be a pop star; it's the only rationale I can find to explain why Hotel is a continuation of everything that went wrong with 18. Gone are all the sumptuous textures and orchestral flourishes that propelled the little idiot (and, no, I'm not being an pretentious ass with the name calling, check his publishing credits) into superstardom in the first place. Maybe he never wanted to be remembered as the guy who imported the symphony and the blues singer into the laptop and fused it all together with a drum machine and a series of DSP patches. Maybe Moby just wants to rock out; maybe he just wants to bring the lights down for an intimate power ballad for a stadium full of his newest best friends.
Maybe. If that is the case, he's certainly picked a tepid way to go about it. While a few of the tracks on Hotel have a bit of a hook ("Raining Again" and "Lift Me Up" for example, though even these seem like Moby's only fishing for minnows with the shallow hooks he's using), the majority of the tunes are pale narcissistic pop songs that will be relegated to incidental music for Deepak Chopra seminars and elevator musak for tired urban hotels struggling to stay hip.
That said, Hotel: Ambient is gorgeous. Packaged with Hotel as part of a limited initial release, this companion CD is an ambient retread of the record. His explanation in the liner notes for the title of the record says, "I don't feel like making music that is airless and lifeless because I also really like people and the messy miasma of the human condition and I want to make messy, human records that are open and emotional." Maybe it says more about me than him that I find Hotel: Ambient to more evocative of the human emotional experience than the trite lyrical content and shallow pop constructs of Hotel, but Hotel: Ambient glistens with charm and innocence, a seductive lure of slow tones and fathomless textures that is far more than just aural wallpaper. This is incidental music filled with longing and heartbreak, loneliness and hopefulness. This is the womb of your hotel room: the space that enfolds you, that holds you tight when you are separated from the ones you love, that tries to alleviate your need for home with its tiny amenities and spartan intimacy. Hotel: Ambient understands how alone you can feel in a numbered room high above the world, and just wants to hold you tight.
If you like what Moby did with Voodoo Child's The End of Everything (and even the ambient bits of Play), then Hotel: Ambient will make you happy. It is just disappointing that you have to put up with Hotel to get to it.
Description of Hotel
The new album, "Hotel", continues in Moby's tradition of making beautifully eclectic records. It runs the gamut from quintessential ("Hotel intro", "Homeward Angel") to big-chorus stadium anthems ("Spiders", "Lift Me Up") to straight-forward electro-disco ("Very") to ballads ("Forever") to new-wave ("Where You End"), and everything in between.
Once a roving maverick who skipped from euphoric rave to speed-metal to ambient soundscaping as if just to prove he could, recent years have seen Richard Melville Hall relax into a comfortable--and yes, lucrative--niche. On the surface, Hotel follows a similarly laid-back trajectory to his last two albums, Play and 18; melancholic torch-songs indebted to electro-pop, gospel, and David Bowie's "Heroes." That vibe is typified on Hotel by the rousing, keyboard-drenched likes of "Beautiful" and the twinkling, optimistic "Spiders," but that's not to say Moby is stagnating, exactly. For one, he's bravely jettisoned the vocal samples that powered the likes of "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" and relies instead on his own understated, faintly awestruck vocals--and, indeed, those of guest vocalist Laura Dawn, whose sparse, synth-and-drum-machine cover of New Order's "Temptation" is a low-key highlight. But there's also a return to his raving roots on the pulsing, diva-led "Very," and a touch of politics on "Lift Me Up"--a song that hides its contempt for the Bush Administration amid a dark carnival of sweeping strings and disco-noir rhythms. --Louis Pattison
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