Album Review

Moby – Wait For Me (Deluxe Edition)

• 13th Nov 2009

Creating ambience and noise like no other, Moby’s album “Wait For Me” needs no help in being sold as it already has done the business earlier this year, along with critics applauding hands.

This is the Deluxe Edition that comes in 3 discs crammed with material. The first disc has the album along with two bonus tracks including new single “One Time We lived.” The album itself is another epic journey into a world that Moby has helped build for many a year now. There is a great fusion of ambient electronic and orchestral work at play here, but perhaps it is the creative structure of his songs that are the most ingenious.

If anything though the new single that accompanies the album is very out of place. Perhaps it was engineered as a quick way to boost sales, and although it is a much livelier Moby that we are used to on the pop scene, it is ill fitting to the soft and graceful compositions that come before it. Like a song to boost the mood over the credits of a film, it should have been left as a separate entity altogether. That isn’t to say that it is a bad song, just not wanted here.

The second disc is the album again, but the ambient version of the album. Like there wasn’t anything already ambient about the first disc! But seriously it is a fine and beautiful piece of work – so much so that you may have trouble choosing which disc you prefer to listen to.

The ordering of the track listing is not identical to the first album, and this has been done for creative purposes as the soundscapes he creates are almost narrative like. It really makes the buy worthwhile if you already own the album in its original state. For newbies then you are really getting something quite special.

The third disc is a DVD which includes Music videos for Shot in the Back of the Head,” “Pale Horses” and “Mistake.” There are also live performances from the Hurricane festival, Sonne Mond Sterne Festival, Exit Festival and Main Square Festival. There is enough material here to work as a worthwhile bonus as opposed to merely acting as filler material to lure people in.

To be honest this release gets the thumbs up just for the second disc as extra material, so it’s nice they have put in the effort here for the consumer. A little fact that will also help shift possible future revisions the artist may endeavour in.