The huge success of 1999’s Play has afforded Moby permanent artistic license, allowing him to be maddeningly unpredictable, to leap arbitrarily among genres (from ambient to hardcore), to proselytize, to be blissfully unconcerned with anything but his own agenda. Play, Moby’s fifth album, turned out to be an outlier in his career arc: an accessible … Continue reading Essential New Music: Moby’s “Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt”