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Title: Lacks imagination and very uninspiring
Review: I'll try to be even handed about this album. On one hand I accept it is very pleasing to the ear and has sold millions of copies. But does that make it a good album?To many people I'm sure it does, but to me it doesn't. For, in essence, all Moby has done is taken samples of old blues tracks and placed a drumloop and some piano melodies underneath, there's nothing good about that. In fact it's very, very lazy.Now I do accept he has done it very well but that doesn't change my opinion. I'm not totally against sampling, but he does it on nearly every track with no use of innovation, then what's the point? At least DJ Shadow knows how to 'use' a sample.The way Moby has shamelessly sold the rights of every track on this album, bar one, to advertisers means also you have probably heard every track already, therefore you may not need to purchase this 'recycled' album.Well of course it's upto you, but I prefer the originals!
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