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Hotel by: Moby List Price: £15.99 CD-Charts Price: £12.69 You Save: £3.30 (21%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 5901844919129 Format: Enhanced Label: Mute Manufacturer: Mute Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Mute Release Date: March 14, 2005 Studio: Mute Sales Rank: 17441 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: 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: a collection of melancholic torch-songs indebted to electro-pop, gospel, and David Bowie's "Heroes", it's typified 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?", relying instead on his own understated, faintly awestruck vocals – and, indeed, those of guest vocalist Laura Brown, 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 Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - easy listeningi like this cd. i bought it specifically for a couple of tracks, but i was surprised how much i like all of the tracks, a mixture of easy listening and mysterious music that encourages your imagination to kick in ! i like it, i recommend this cd. Rating:  - a little too "safe" for die-hard Moby fansFor lovers of older Moby, those album obviously comes as a shock - the songs don't have quite the same Moby feel to them. Nevertheless, I absolutely love this album. Admittedly, it's taken a bit of getting used to (mostly due to my stubborn refusal to listen to it now that Lift Me Up has become so popular) but once you really sit down and listen to it, the musical genius that is Moby really shines through. The only tracks that don't really agree with me are Lift Me Up (predominantly due to its popularity!) and Beautiful, most likely because they sound too "mainstream" and I prefer more quirky, alternative sounds. My absolute favourites would be I Like It (bit sexy), Slipping Away and Forever. These three really are beautifully handcrafted songs, ... Read More: Rating: - Brilliant. Almost as good as PlayOK, I didn't like "18! at all. Compared to the changing moods of Play I found it rather depressing and monotonous. Therefore, I went in to Hotel with some trepidation. I needn't have worried though as this album is ALMOST as good as Play. It changes moods throughout the record and works as a whole remarkably well. If you liked Play GET THIS. Rating: - He just doesn't stop does he? For some Moby is a dirty word. Up there with Dido in the bland stakes - though you'd have to be a goth with ears of cloth to think that. Judge not a man by the company he keeps in a suburban record collection, but by the quality of his work. "Hotel" then, Moby's umpteenth album (some people say it's his fifth, but I can think of seventeen in his careeer), is both more of the same, and more than that. You know what he sounds like, dance music for people who don't dance, and yet, with this one, he's branching back into the more eclectic territory he shyed from on both "Play" and "18" : the formula of old blues samples and guest vocalists have been retired, in favour of one man, an arsenal of bedroom geekery, and a vision. Read More: Rating: - More of the same please MobyThis is what Moby should be doing more of!!! Some great songs, with Moby taking a stand forward and singing most of the songs by himself, and not the usual 2 or 3 he has done in previous albums! He has a better voice than what most people credit him for and this album shows his real tallents as a singer-songwritter. "Lift me up" a great song, but the David Bowie influenced "Spiders" is the stand out track IMO. |
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