Album Review

Moby – Alice

• 18th Mar 2008

Lets be honest, Canadian tea drinking vegans with shiny heads that half name themselves after story book whales sound like a total firkin nightmare. They’re the type of people that accost you in libraries and offer to tell you why eggs must not pass your lips in case you burn in a fiery abyss.

Apparently not all of them. They also come in the form of eco friendly, funny and charming dance gurus. Thank God.

Everyone’s favourite weirdo returns with new single Alice. The song, which is said to be born out of a mishap with some bass feedback, is Moby’s first single off his latest album Last Night Out.

It’s a welcome and much needed return from the DJ after he disappeared off the cool radar with 05’s Hotel. It must pretty much suck to realise that you’ve already hit your musical peak, not cause you’ve ‘lost it’ by any means but because it’s unrealistic to assume any subsequent releases are going to reach the nauseating heights of Play.

Alice, however, lives up to Moby’s rep of madness combined with a touch of genius, this time collaborating with Nigerian Hip Hop outfit 419 and London voice box Aynzli. The latest offering comprises of irrepressible pumping beats and heavy as hell bass complimented by a mellower synth, which in total conjures up an impressive single.

Refreshing and new, the maple leaf hero delivers something effortless; it’s as if the deck handler has been doing hip-hop all along.