Moby

Infused with the soulful samples that made Play such a heartfelt hit, this 2002 follow-up is about as far from party music as you can get. On nearly every track, from the swansong-esque "We Are All Made of Stars" to the elegiac "In My Heart," a gracefully maturing Moby favors subtlety and nuance over dance beats.

Moby may look like an unlikely candidate for the gig, but by now he's the face of modern
music. It's probably just because he likes everything. Too catholic in his tastes to pass for a
true dance-floor DJ, he finds his real artistic vocation as the home DJ, the guy obsessively
making his own mix tapes (or burning his own mix CDs) and foisting them on his friends. The
payoff: his 1999 classic Play, a deeply eccentric and garbled spiritual statement t... More >

Visionary self-starter generates commercial formula generates foregone conclusion ("In This World," "We Are All Made of Stars") (Grade - *)