{"id":8482,"date":"2014-02-04T17:01:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T17:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=8482"},"modified":"2014-02-04T17:01:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T17:01:49","slug":"moby-innocents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/02\/04\/moby-innocents\/","title":{"rendered":"Moby \u2013 Innocents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/ap130923Moby_Innocents_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8483\" alt=\"ap130923Moby_Innocents_cover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/ap130923Moby_Innocents_cover-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Like many of Moby\u2019s biggest singles (which is, essentially, my full exposure to Moby), there is a lot of repetition on <em>Innocents<\/em>.<!--more--> That\u2019s not a good or a bad thing, necessarily \u2013 there is often a lot of repetition within songs when it comes to electronic music \u2013 but when the album is over an hour long, it can make some of those songs easy to ignore. In that case, listening expectations have to be tweaked a bit. <em>Innocents<\/em> is largely devoid of bombast, with notable exceptions being \u201cThe Perfect Life\u201d (with Wayne Coyne), an uplifting clap-and-sing-a-long that feels a bit overblown, and \u201cDon\u2019t Love Me\u201d (with Inyang Bassey), a dated-sounding slow-burning romp and low-point on the record. The softer, cooler tracks on the album are where it really shines. \u201cAlmost Home\u201d (with Damien Jurado), aptly sounds like waking from a soft, breezy dream, carrying you along with the coda, \u201cso let it go, wake up, wake up, wake up, we\u2019re almost home.\u201d \u201cSaints\u201d is all kinds of cinematic, driven by the sort of strings that would find our hero in the midst of a world-saving sacrifice, soulful, otherworldly vocals resonating just under a driving beat. Nearly ten-minutes long closer \u201cThe Dogs\u201d caps it all off, sparse and quiet at first, eventually plunging headfirst into a hyper-dramatic, orchestral swirl. Even though it\u2019s running length can make it a bit forgettable overall, <em>Innocents<\/em> is full of stunning moments. (Arts &amp; Crafts, <a href=\"http:\/\/moby.com\">moby.com<\/a>) <strong>Matt Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many of Moby\u2019s biggest singles (which is, essentially, my full exposure to Moby), there is a lot of repetition on Innocents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1056],"class_list":["post-8482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-utn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}