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Animal Rights

by: Moby

Release Date October 16, 2000
This is to prove Moby wasn't always a man whose talent extends only as far as lifting old blues samples and grafting them onto bland corporate coffee-table music. This is to prove that Moby has a heart. At the time of this album's release, only two people in the UK ("The Big Issue", and a student paper in Coventry) wanted to review him. His name was dirt. He supported Soundgarden, and his own headline gigs brought in about 100 people. But why?

"Animal Rights" is about as far away as you can get from the Moby that you know & loathe. "Animal Rights" is a frantic 40 minute essay about how Everything is Wrong. Working almost entirely without guest musicians (a violin player appears on two songs), Moby created this demented, claustrophobic ... Read More: