While listening to filmmaker David Lynch speak at the BAFTA Awards in February 2008, Moby had an epiphany. Lynch's message- creativity for its own sake is a beautiful, wonderful thing - was a simple one, but it hit Moby with the force of the Zenmaster's cane. "At that moment, I decided to just make records that were more personal," says Moby, "maybe more experimental,and a little more challenging, maybe not as easy to like, but things that I found to be artistically and creatively moresatisfying. That was the idea behind making the new album."The album resulting from this epiphany, Wait For Me, is a radical departure from Moby's recent albums - last year's paean tothe dance floor, Last Night, 2005's flirtation with modern rock, Hotel, the shimmering ambience of 2002's 18, and the zeitgeistdefiningmelancholy electronica of 1999's Play. Liberated from the pressures of trying to please himself at the same time asthe radio programmers, journalists and his label's marketing department, in making Wait For Me Moby decided to forego theexpensive studios, state-of-the-art equipment, big name guest artists, and phalanxes of graphic designers and image consultantsthat have characterized some of his previous albums. "There's something so relaxing about doing everything yourself,and not trying to second-guess the market," Moby says. "I don't know if anyone's going to like this record, I don't know if it'sgoing to sell anything, but it's nice to try to do things for the right reasons and not give a second thought to radio play or sales- just make a record because you want to make a record."
Disc 1:
- Division
- Pale Horses
- Shot In The Back Of The Head
- Study War
- Walk With Me
- Stock Radio
- Mistake
- Scream Pilots
- Jltf 1
- Jltf
- A Seated Night
- Wait For Me
- Hope Is Gone
- Ghost Return
- Slow Light
- Isolate
Disc 2:
- Pale Horses (Apparat Dub)
- Pale Horses (Jason Bentley Remix)
- Pale Horses (Vc1 - Moby Remix)
- Walk with Me (Moby Rework)
