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Rating: 1996, a particularly unfortunate period for the New York DJ/musician.
After the success achieved with Everything is Wrong, which some claimed would be the dance record of the year (it was 1995), Moby went through a dark phase, suffering from panic attacks and being perpetually pissed off with the world and what he didn’t like about his country. So, he comes out with Animal Rights, an album that fuses various styles, from Metal to Ambient. Moby plays the guitar and does so very well; he sings in nine songs and showcases his vocal talents with a voice that is sometimes warm and calm and rises to be cold and screaming at the chorus.
When I bought this album, as soon as I pressed the Play button on the CD player, I was stunned. The first song, entitled Now I Let It Go, is a mix of genres, a calm, relaxing, and melancholic piece, with a violin sound that caresses your heart. Barely recovering from such sweetness, you move to the second song, with the tone now darker. After ten seconds of animations, the real music starts: an electronic beat, an insistent guitar, and a Moby never so determined, angry.
The album proceeds with another ten dark and emotion-laden songs, like Say It's All Mine or That's When I Reach For My Revolver, truly splendid. Moby on the guitar is fantastic, his voice reaches your heart because it’s so full of sincerity and pain.
This CD should be listened to multiple times, all in one breath, from start to finish, and among a ballad, a love song for his late mother, and rhythms made of rough guitars and sweet sentiments, you will realize how much of a genius Moby is.
Fantastic.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
03 Someone to Love (02:51)
I was cold and wet
Like no-one else
It came in now, a professional
Oh, it's over
Oh, it's over
Oh, it's over now
Well I, fall in a sleep and I let go
Make me a being without a soul
Somebody live my life I've got to know what dead men know
Someone to love
Someone to love
Someone to love
Someone to love
I was on my knees
In front of her
When I feel like going down I know it's everywhere
Oh, it's over
Oh, it's over
Oh, it's over now
You make me another hell
I can't live but I'm no-one else
Somebody live my life I've got to know what dead men know
Someone to love
Someone to love
Someone to love
Someone to love
Like I said before
It's over again
And no-one left but me and
And no-one lifted me no
Someone to love
Someone to love
Someone to love
Someone to love
Someone to love
Someone to love
Someone to love
Someone to love
04 Heavy Flow (01:53)
I wanna break you down slow 'cause you know I never understand
How this fucked up life makes sweat into blood and hands
When I see it, I can't wait it, got to hold on now
I need it, can't stop, you know I'm gonna let my bubble blow
Never baby takes near I hope they're getting better with life
I felt it, I heard your better than me get much worse
We film it, we may hurt well something, made it work, I need it, can't wait
You know I'm gonna let my bubble blow
The way you touch me babe you know it makes me whole
When you're fucking me it powers up my soul
I know it's ok I know I feel like a
I want to break you down and make you cum
Let go!
07 Soft (03:57)
I know what's in me
I know what goes on in me
Know it's time to stop
I alone for ever
I feel it soft
In my hands
So soft
So soft
And I can sit through the door
Watching mine
Watching the sign
I know it's soft
So soft
I know it's soft
So soft
Rough
Can you ever lay
What's all the blindness
Watch someone bleed
I can't ever be found
I can never sleep
When your fucking nail
No when your fucking nail
I feel it (soft)
I feel it
Well I feel it
I feel it
I don't know what I don't connect
But I scream for the blood I've found
I can't see but I'm never going to leave
Walking you to me
Love baby love baby love make it ever soft
Love baby love me soft
It burns
It's soft but it hurts
It's soft
Now I play
In at night
Climb your sleep
For the rest of your
Feel it
I feel it
I feel it
I feel it
Well I feel it
I feel it
I feel it
I feel it
Well I feel it now
What sort of love
What sort of love
What sort of love
What sort of love
What sort of love
What sort of love
What sort of love
09 That's When I Reach for My Revolver (03:57)
Once I had my heros,
Once I had my dreams.
But all of that has changed now,
The truth begins again.
The truth is not that comfortable, no.
Mother taught us patience,
The virtues of restraint.
Father taught us boundries,
Of knowledge we must goal.
I'm trying to protect my unity.
That's when I reach for my revolver.
That's when it all gets blown away.
That's when I reach for my revolver.
The spirit passes by this way.
A friend of mine once told me,
His one and only aim.
To build a giant castle,
And in it sign his name.
Sign it with complete community.
That's when I reach for my revolver.
That's when it all gets blown away.
That's when I reach for my revolver.
Her spirit passes by this way.
Now that the sky is empty,
And that is nothing new.
Instead they look upon us when they tell me,
That we're nothing.
That's when I reach for my revolver.
That's when it all gets blown away.
That's when I reach for my revolver.
A spirit passes by this way.
That's when I reach for my revolver.
That's when it all gets blown away.
That's when I reach for my revolver.
The spirit passes by this way.
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