These Systems Are Failing

AlbumOct 14 / 20169 songs, 35m 51s90%
Dance-Punk Noise Pop Synth Punk New Rave
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4.0 / 10

These Systems Are Failing is Moby’s most furious album in twenty years, a return to his hardcore days, but it's still oddly cold and routine.

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Co-credited to the Void Pacific Choir -- a name derived from a D.H. Lawrence quote -- These Systems Are Failing is only slightly more collaborative than Moby's solitary ambient work, and its effect is the opposite of that.

7 / 10

Scan the daily headlines and you'll find no shortage of things at present for anyone to be upset about. Moby isn't letting the ills of the w...

8 / 10

There's a looped synth pad, repeated over a few bars, somewhere between sinister and muted euphoria; a churning, intense rhythm kicks in, lots of

These Systems Are Failing too often obscures Moby’s message with abstractions and platitudes.

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Album Reviews: Moby & The Void Pacific Choir - These Systems Are Failing

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Moby - These Systems Are Failing review: The protest rave…

CD: Moby & the Void Pacific Choir - These Systems Are Failing. Thirteenth album from electronic dance perennial rages at the machine. Review by Thomas H Green.