Moby - Last Night

Dancy Dancy, a little bit fancy.

This is a dance version of calligraphy. It’s swirly and curly and appealing at first glance, but when you try to read it, you can’t really see what the content is. The album is a rather pleasant sounding experience, for the most part and I very much enjoyed it while I was listening to it, but once the album had finished, I felt rather empty inside, like there wasn’t any point to what I’d just heard. There isn’t any conviction to the music. Dance music is supposed to capture you and whisk you away, but this album doesn’t do that.

I was personally rather indifferent to Moby until I saw him on Never Mind the Buzzcocks and thought he was hilarious. This caused me to take rather a liking to the man, but I still stayed indifferent to his music.

This album is like the weak kid at school who keeps trying to be everyone’s friend, but nobody wants anything to do with him, even though he is generally pleasant, he’s not friend material and it’s the same with this album, the songs are nice but they don’t really make me want to buy the album.

The best songs on the album take a step in the right direction and make me wish the rest of the album had the same determination as these songs.
There’s only one outstandingly bad song on the album, and that is ‘Everyday it’s 1989′ which is just too much for me to handle, it has some wailing woman all the way through and I just want her to just SHUT UP!

The best songs on the album are ‘257.zero’, ‘Alice’ and ‘The Stars’ which all combine decent beats, cool funky sounds and some great use of words.

Listen to this album: While doing jumping jacks.

Rating: 74%

Extracts from ‘257.zero’, ‘Alice’ and ‘The Stars’

‘Everyday It’s 1989′