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- Date Released: March 22, 2005
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Techno, Electronic Ambient
- Label: V2 Music
Electro innovator settles for known pleasures on this retro outing.
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We Say...
This distinctly minor album finds Moby rooting through his identities — '80s electro fan, '90s electronica innovator, 21st century rock star, longtime Bowie and Eno disciple — and settling on nothing, exactly. Blues-gone-glam guitar tracks like "Raining Again," "Beautiful" and "Spiders" play like an audition tape to produce a Ziggy Stardust follow-up — not a particularly successful audition, either. Far better are a cover of New Order's "Temptation" slowed down to the crawl the world takes on after too many Percodans and "Dream About Me," an update on the robo-disco heartbreak of Yaz. Both feature Laura Dawn, whose breathy vulnerability is a welcome relief to Moby's unadorned vocals on "Slipping Away" and "Love Should." A techno-pastoral instrumental, "Homeward Angel," closes the album with a graceful bit of ambient bliss. In keeping with the album's title, it all adds up to the sort of dance-and-rock mix you hear in the lobby and bars of boutique hotels: vaguely cool, vaguely retro, vaguely now, and pretty anonymous. Hotels are anonymous places where intimate things transpire, but you can bet Moby was after music that captured the intimacy, not the anonymity.
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They Say...
Hotel rarely shows, in any shape or form, traceable inspiration from the new wave and post-punk era Moby advertised as being in full effect. The first half contains simple modern rock songs that tend to be anthemic and soul-searching in nature. Lead single "Beautiful" is one exception, a tongue-in-cheek thing Moby has imagined being sung by vacant celebrity couples. No matter how affable, vegan, liberal, bespectacled, or vertically challenged he is, the real irony is that a millionaire and former love interest of Natalie Portman has made a song of this kind (see also: Aerosmith's "Eat the Rich"). A very gentle version of New Order's "Temptation" turns out to be the album's deepest connection to post-punk; it's telling that Moby opted to leave the vocals to Laura Dawn, since he's less a singer than Bernard Sumner. This begins the non-rock portion of the program, which fans of Play and 18 might find easier to enjoy. A bonus disc containing an hour's worth of ambient techno is good enough for separate release.
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| 01. |  |
Hotel Intro |
1:55 |
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| 02. | |
Raining Again |
3:46 |
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| 03. | |
Beautiful |
3:11 |
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| 04. | |
Lift Me Up |
3:19 |
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| 05. | |
Where You End |
3:22 |
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| 06. | |
Temptation |
4:55 |
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| 07. | |
Spiders |
3:45 |
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| 08. | |
Dream About Me |
3:21 |
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| 09. | |
Very |
3:42 |
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| 10. | |
I Like It |
3:46 |
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| 11. | |
Love Should |
3:51 |
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| 12. | |
Slipping Away |
3:39 |
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| 13. | |
Forever |
3:39 |
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| 14. | |
Homeward Angel |
5:50 |
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| 15. | |
35 Minutes |
5:20 |
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15 Total Tracks, 57:21 Total Length
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Credits
- Moby - Vocals // Moby - Producer // Moby - Engineer // Moby - Mixing // Moby - Instrumentation // Daniel Miller - A&R // Daniel Miller - A&R // Daniel Miller - Advisor // Daniel Miller - Advisor // Brian Sperber - Vocals (Background) // Brian Sperber - Engineer // Brian Sperber - Mixing // Danny Clinch - Photography // Tony Gillis - Mastering // Joe Hogan - Tracking // Scott Frassetto - Drums // Jason Candler - Vocals (Background) // Kurt Uenala - Vocals (Background) // Kurt Uenala - Digital Editing // Kurt Uenala - Pro-Tools // Shayna Steele - Vocals (Background) // Laura Dawn - Vocals // Laura Dawn - Vocals (Background) // Steef Van De Gevel - Assistant Engineer // Tom MacKay - A&R // Sean Gould - Engineer // Andy Gershon - A&R // Andy Gershon - Advisor // Gus Oberg - Assistant Engineer // Jennie Pettersson - Digital Editing // Jennie Pettersson - Pro-Tools // Orion Simprini - Vocals (Background)
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