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The lead single, the excellent, Bowie-ish wibbler 'We Are All Made Of Stars' is a total red herring. The other 67 minutes and 17 tracks are 'Play' Redux; familiar-sounding "oh-lord-my-dog's-just-died" samples over shopworn pianos and strings, straining to be epic but lacking the crucial element of surprise that made 'Play' sound so innovative.
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MojoYou finish listening to 18 feeling as if you've heard a decaffeinated version of Play. [June 2002, p.98]
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At its best, 18 is a mesmerizing negotiation of the gap between mainstream tastes and underground allegiances. As a whole, though, it's too stuck in its in-between space to step beyond an uninspiring middle ground.
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UncutA mostly thin and needlessly morose album. [Jun 2002, p.108]
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Nearly every song sounds like either a redux of or reject from its predecessor.
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The follow-up to 'Play' is, essentially, 'Re-Play', a cynical rehash of the melancholic-yet-strangely-uplifting schtick which sold ten million albums and soundtracked every single advert of the last three years.
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It still wouldn’t come off so badly if Moby took his old sounds and improved them, but he doesn’t.
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An attempted retread that feels more driven by commerce than conviction and suffers as a result.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 26 out of 32
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Mixed: 3 out of 32
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Negative: 3 out of 32
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[Anonymous]Jun 3, 2002c00li0!
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GwenT.May 26, 2002Another good one.
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Jun 25, 2012Keeping the style that he had from his Play album, Moby