Product Description While
listening to filmmaker David Lynch speak at the BAFTA Awards in
February 2008, Moby had an epiphany. Lynch's message- creativity for
its own sake is a beautiful, wonderful thing- was a simple one, but it
hit Moby with the force of the Zen master's cane. "At that moment, I
decided to just make records that were more personal," says Moby,
"maybe more experimental, and a little more challenging, maybe not as
easy to like, but things that I found to be artistically and creatively
more satifying. That was the idea behind making the new album."
The album resulting from this epiphany, Wait For Me, is a radical departure from Moby's recent albums- last year's paean to the dance floor, Last Night, 2008's flirtation with modern rock, Hotel, the shimmering ambience of 2002's 18, and the zeitgeist-defining melancholy electronica of 1999's Play. Liberated from the pressures of trying to please himself at the same time as the industry, in making Wait For Me
Moby decided to forego the expensive studios, state-of-the-art
equipment, big name guest artists, and phalanxes of graphic designers
and image consultants that have characterized some of his previous
albums. "There's something so relaxing about doing everything yourself,
and not trying to second-guess the market," Moby says. "It's nice to
try to do things for the right reasons- just make a record because you
want to make a record."