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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Romantic elegy for a vanished world, 11 April 2008
This is a deeply romantic album -- in the sense that it's a journey through memory, a conceptual stroll through the sensations of a typical night out in NYC in the 80s or 90s.
So the night starts wild and jubilant with the old school "I Love To Move In Here", featuring Grandmaster Caz of the Cold Crush Brothers and moves onto a homage to every crazy rave anthem (Black Box's "Ride on Time", anyone?) with "Everyday It's Like 1989". And the mechanistic "257.zero" evokes a haunted landscape of digital bewilderment before lapsing into the rich, weary sophistication of "Live For Tomorrow" and "Hyenas", the latter featuring a swooning Algerian French vocal; Piaf meets Grace Jones at 4am under a stuttering streetlight.
Elsewhere Moby revisits early 90s house with "Disco Lies" and employs a rap from Ainzli Jones and Nigerian hip-hop act 419 Group for futuristic hip-hop outing "Alice". The guttural desperation of the Moroder-ish "I'm In Love" recalls Crystal Waters "She's Homeless" more than it does the smooth sensuality of a Donna Summer.
But as the album swoops to a blissfully exhausted close with its lovely title track, the elegiac quality of the album is clear as first daylight. "If this be my last night on earth," sings Kudu's Sylvia Gordon, "let me remember this for all that it's worth."
Self-referential maybe - but not dated so much as a romantic elegy for a vanished elysium.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Fantastic return to form!!!, 21 May 2008
It's a shame that Moby has become almost the ubiquitous sound of advertising to the point that even though the music on Play and 18 were great, they will forever be remembered for the products they advertised.
By way of comparison Last Night is a return to the dance music that characterised Moby's early releases. The tunes themselves have the feel of early Moby like 'Go', 'Feeling So Real' and 'Anthem' which is fantastic. The album itself feels as if it winds its way through a night out, from the euphoria of preparing and getting to a club, and eventually coming back down to the late night reflection on what was and might have been. While the tunes hint at the past the production and quality of music and vocals (from the myriad of different guest vocalists) are bang up to date.
If you only buy one dance music album this year make it this one!
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A refreshing return to form, 23 Jun 2008
Like the previous reviewer, I would also like to start in questionable fashion... Why on earth are people comparing this to the likes of Play and Hotel? What you all fail to realise is that Moby release's albums centred around a different theme, a feeling. To call him an individual artist to a specific genre is wrong; the likes of Play and Hotel demonstrated his freedom to cross many different sub-genres, whereas this album, (as it CLEARLY explains in the CD booklet, if anyone even bothered to read it) is inspired by his days clubbing with friends until the early mornings around the late 80's/early 90's. 'Nuff said really.
The album itself is quite a refreshing change for todays market, inspired by typical Roland synths from the 80's and 90's, that for Moby, summed up his years of partying and clubbing. Such is the case it brings back joyful memories of an era gone by; "Everyday its 1989", "The Stars" and "Disco Lies" are structured in retro fashion, sounding like many of the rave tunes from the summer of love. More typical 'Moby-esque' tracks such as "Ooh Yeah" and "Hyenas" make a welcome return to form and help complete a quite uplifting album, where the likes of "Degenerates" complete a downward chill near the end of the album.
It's wrong to rate such a CD poorly when people clearly miss the point, and wave fingers because it doesn't meet "their taste". The album is clearly centred around the journeys that surround a night on the town, and focusses on the character of the night-time in the land of dancing - 4 x 4 beats, looping vocals, but above all the classic Moby rhythms to go with them.
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