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Moby - Last Night
| Rollingstone |
| Club drugs and rock stars abide by the same rule: What goes up must come down. After hitting a massive high on 1999's Play, Moby stopped making dance music, opting instead for the downtempo atmospherics of 2002's 18 and the strummed guitars of 2005's Hotel. So it's exciting to hear this forty-two-year-old vegan blogger return to form. A concept album about an all-night bender, Last Night solidifies Moby's link in the chain that binds DJ pioneers like Todd Terry to slinky futurists like Justice....full text |
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| Billboard |
| Madonna, Seal: Big pop stars who started as dance artists have circled back to the floor on their latest albums. But "Last Night," Moby's homage to/reconstruction of New York dance music during the course of his 42-year lifetime, is the only one that causes the desired effect: making you feel about the artist the way you did when you first heard him. The guy who sold millions of records by stretching gospel samples into lush sonic pastiches is still here—just listen to "Live Tomorrow." But so is the one who created '92 rave anthem "Go"—the frantic piano riff and snare rolls of "Stars" give him away....full text |
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| Musicomh |
| One of the intriguing things about Moby used to be that you never knew what he would come up with next. From Twin Peaks-sampling rave anthem Go to the calm minimalism of his Ambient collection, from the exuberant variety of Everything Is Wrong to the thrashing rock strains of commercial flop Animal Rights and on to the multi-million selling, ubiquitous downtempo hit that was Play, he always seemed to be moving the musical goalposts....full text |
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