These Systems Are Failing
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.
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...
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.
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.