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May 27, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Moby: Long Ambients Two
Moby Long Ambients Two Little Idiot Moby returns with a second volume of his long ambient pieces. Designed specifically to put you to sleep (hey! No jokes!) this nearly four-hour playlist/mixtape-of-an-album is, as with its earlier volume, in line with Max Richter’s Sleep. In fact there’s not a lot to say about this – and this is recommendation rather than review. The stretched, flattened, gospel-waft of […]Archive
June 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 401
Moby, Play (1999) Look, I’m not sure when this album by Moby drove me mad, exactly – or as close as I got to it – but tripping balls, wearing a sarong, stirring a pot full of different leftover spirits and liqueurs with South Side blasting out as if a new religion…yeah, that was a […]Archive
May 27, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Moby: Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt
Moby Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt Mute What a long, strange trip it’s been for Moby. Toiling away making everyman techno and then that massive ‘discovery’ and suddenly you couldn’t watch a TV show, film or ad of an evening without hearing a refrain from a song Moby had stitched together using old blues […]Archive
September 5, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Moby: Long Ambients 1 – Calm. Sleep.
Moby Long Ambients 1: Calm. Sleep. (Independent) Moby’s latest “album” is a four-hour playlist available as a free download (or on all the streaming platforms) that aims to encourage you toward sleep, or at least to enjoy calm and peaceful activities. Created as part of the soundtrack for Moby’s own yoga and relax-time, Long Ambients […]Archive
August 13, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Short Story: South Side
This girl was crazy – right. Like fucking batshit party-girl. But after too much Moby and not enough acid or probably too much acid and not enough Moby she was convinced we needed to go to the hospital. She was dying. We had just enough money for a taxi there. It was pouring with rain. […]Archive
March 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
HÆLOS: Full Circle
HÆLOS Full Circle Matador Get ready to be told, elsewhere that HÆLOS sound like the xx, when, if they even do, it’s the xx of the awful and dreary lightning-does-strike-once second-album, not that lush debut. Actually, HÆLOS – awful font and stylised lettering and all – sounds like a throwback to 90s trip-hop – there […]Archive
October 13, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Franz Kirmann: Meridians
Franz Kirmann Meridians Denovali Records London-based French composer Franz Kirmann, one half of Piano Interrupted, here returns to his electronic roots, weaving aspects of modern classical composition – samples and extracts – to create a post-ambient version of post-rock’s surges that border – always beautifully – on the emotionally overwhelming. They Drove All Night Only […]Archive
September 24, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
It Was The Worst: # 17 That Time I Nearly Took Counting Crows Seriously
The other day the brand new Counting Crows album arrived in my mailbox. You think having U2’s latest nonsense appear on your phone is a big deal, huh? I still get the occasional letter bomb! So I’m unwrapping this particular letter bomb, and as soon as I see the words ‘Counting’ and then ‘Crows’ I […]Archive
September 15, 2014 by Simon Sweetman