Christian Hoard returns today with Rolling Stone’s weekly look at new releases, and his “Christian Rock” pick is Moby’s Wait for Me (read the RS review here).
Hoard says the LP has done more for him than any Moby disc since Play — an album that is incidentally celebrating its tenth anniversary this year (Rolling Stone marked the occasion by having Moby tell us the stories behind each track on the multiplatinum disc). Wait for Me is likewise a DJ collage, a half-instrumental album filled with sweeping string synths, crackling vocal samples and an overall air of introspection. Moby cut the disc in his LES studio, and Hoard notes it doesn’t seem like the producer was concerned with starting a party — or selling millions of records. Wait for Me doesn’t do disco like last year’s excellent Last Night; rather it’s bummed out and slow, but extremely pretty. Parts of the record sounds like agonized post-punk, while other parts sound like prime soundtrack fodder.
Check out the video to see part of Moby’s “Shot in the Back of the Head” video, directed by David Lynch, and to hear “Hope Is Gone,” where a ghostly female vocal tops glassy keyboards and makes being bummed out sound like a wondrous thing.
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