walk with me, moby...

i've never really listened that much to Moby before...until his new release of "Wait For Me".
and let me just say that i am quite impressed.

Moby was inspired to create this album while listening to filmmaker David Lynch speak at the BAFTA Awards in February 2008. Lynch’s message – creativity for its own sake is a beautiful, wonderful thing – was a simple one, but it hit Moby with force. “At that moment, I decided to just make records that were more personal, maybe more experimental, and a little more challenging, maybe not as easy to like, but things that I found to be artistically and creatively more satisfying. That was the idea behind making the new album.” (from here)

it is one of those albums that you can leave on, and either a) just listen to; or b) put on as background music (which, is not really a bad thing).
it is also one of those albums that you should listen to entirely - from the moment you hit play right until the last second of the last song.

in some ways, it has this cinematic quality to it: some of the 'instrumental' songs sound as if they belong to some sort of drama film. (Division, Shot In The Back of the Head, A Seated Night...Slow Light)
*good to note here, the music video for Shot In The Back Of The Head was directed by David Lynch. huh.

the rest of the 'non-instrumental' songs (if you will) all feature vocals from moby's friends...and are unknowns who could very well have a future in the music industry. Moby himself though lends his singing talents on the pop-esque 'love' song, Mistake.

a great listening experience, even for those who are not fans of techno or electronic music.
added bonus: the cover art is of a cute little alien drawing looking wistfully at the moon. it really is cute.

songs worth listening to: Shot In The Back Of The Head (video), Walk With Me, Study War, .

worth checking out: film music - from moby.com