Moby - Wait For Me *** (From This Is Local London)

Moby - Wait For Me ***

5:17pm Monday 6th July 2009 in

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If you’ve had enough of Moby’s grandstanding, epic hitmaking then here comes a record to restore your faith in the blighter’s obvious skills.

Wait For Me finds him going back to basics, albeit in the exalted company of Sigur Ros producer Ken Thomas and new friend David Lynch, whose wonderfully dark animation already adorns the album’s best track, the contemplative instrumental Shot in the Back of My Head.

Mistake throws glacial shapes across a moody soundscape, while the acid gospel of the title track is compelling; and if with its sequenced strings Pale Horses sounds more like the Moby of old than mood pieces like A Seated Night, it works well in the context of the whole record, bringing light in the shade and propelling what is a defiantly visual album.