Moby has nimbly traversed musical genres throughout his career, gliding from punk singer to techno wizard to rock man and beyond. After 2008’s dance-floor friendly Last Night, he retreated to his home studio and surfaced with Wait for Me: a beautiful, moody, cinematic album more suited for headphone meditation than a dance marathon. The symphonic starter, “Division”, consists of orchestral strings that naturally roll into “Pale Horses”, a downtempo composition painted by a mournful female singer waxing tragically poetic. On the instrumental “Shot In the Back of the Head”, the orchestration is augmented by the sample of a lazy, backward guitar riff and the result is breathtaking. Ethereal “Walk With Me” finds Moby developing various melodies from a single chord, while raspy female vocals channel a vintage spiritual. Wait for Me is a cohesive collection that would be a natural fit for a noir film score – its downtempo compositions subtly evolve like light filtering through a window, casting shadows that leave emotive impressions, but no tangible trail.
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