Wait for Me (Moby album)
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| Studio album by Moby | ||||
| Released | 29 June 2009 2 November 2009 (Wait for Me: Ambient) 23 November 2009 (Deluxe Edition) |
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| Recorded | 2008–2009 | |||
| Genre | Downtempo, ambient, electronica | |||
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52:06 (regular edition) 63:10 (Wait for Me: Ambient) 126:37 (Deluxe Edition) |
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| Producer | Moby | |||
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Cover for the Deluxe Edition.
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 65/100 |
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| MSN Music | A− |
| NME | 4/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 5.4/10 |
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| Spin | 7/10 |
| Wait for Me: Ambient | |
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| Recorded | 2 November 2009 |
| Label | Little Idiot, Mute |
| Producer | Moby |
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| Remix album by Moby | ||||
| Released | May 17, 2010 | |||
| Recorded | 2008–2010 | |||
| Genre | Electronica, house | |||
| Label | Mute | |||
| Producer | Moby | |||
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Wait for Me is the ninth studio album by American electronica musician Moby, released on 29 June 2009. Moby announced the title, track listing, and release date of the album on his website on 14 April 2009.
The first single from the album was "Shot in the Back of the Head". The song's accompanying music video was directed by David Lynch. The videos to "Pale Horses" and "Mistake" feature the alien shown on the cover and a dog. The alien is a new design of "Little Idiot" who appeared in earlier videos (the videos for Play's "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" and "Natural Blues" are both examples) and is also the name of Moby's own label, on which the album was released.
The album was re-released as a Deluxe Edition on 23 November 2009 featuring the complete Wait for Me original album, two new songs (including the brand new single "One Time We Lived"), an extra CD of ambient versions of almost all the songs, and a DVD featuring many recent live performances, an intimate EPK of the album, a section of questions and answers, and five music videos made for the album.
Moby has stated about the recording of the album:
I recorded the album here in my studio on the lower east side (although 'studio' always seems like an overly grand word for a bunch of equipment set up in a small bedroom). In the past I've worked in large and small studios, but for this record I wanted to record everything at home by myself
He has also discussed about the start of the album's recording:
I started working on the album about a year ago, and the creative impetus behind the record was hearing a David Lynch speech at BAFTA, in the UK. David was talking about creativity, and to paraphrase, about how creativity in and of itself, and without market pressures, is fine and good. It seems as if too often an artists or musicians or writers' creative output is judged by how well it accommodates the marketplace, and how much market share it commands and how much money it generates. In making this record, I wanted to focus on making something that I loved, without really being concerned about how it might be received by the marketplace. As a result, it's a quieter and more melodic and more mournful and more personal record than some of the records I've made in the past.
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