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//26 June 2008

Moby

I Love To Move In Here (Mute)

Moby’s feeling nostalgic with new concept album ‘Last Night’ and this second single is undoubtedly designed to evoke the main event of his typical night out in New York City back in the day. Slick, sophisticated and hypnotically ambient, the track is very pleasurable. The return of his hip-hop inspired electronica provided by Grandmaster Caz’s raps breaks up the mid-tempo beats, shimmering strings and keyboards to provide edgier rhyming and scratching adding that extra spark as the rapper informs this is “old school taking you back”. If this is the sound of Moby’s acid house heydays, however, maybe he just never let his hair down that much, assuming he once had some. The chilled vibe suggests lavish bar, not hedonistic rave. This figures, considering Moby’s appeal to lounging professionals and Sunday Times readers (who incidentally will have received his free album preview CD) since 1999’s ‘Play’ became the required soundtrack to any mainstream, particularly cinematic, advertisement. Moby is still in play. But he plays it safe.

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