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UncutMay 23, 2011Destroyed is up there with his career peaks. [Jun 2011, p.91]
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MojoMay 18, 2011Darkly neurotic, it captures the on-the-road loneliness and sense of dislocation perfectly. [Jun 2011, p.97]
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May 16, 2011Ditch the first 20 minutes and open the album with the stunning, nearly seven-minute "The Violent Bear It Away," which is tucked away toward Destroyed's end, and here's a career-defining work.
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May 16, 2011The album would truly shine overall if it didn't contain too many songs that are less songs and more experiments in sound. That's not to say this is a major problem, but instrumental, orchestral arrangements seem strange when they come 12 songs through a 15-track LP.
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Under The RadarJun 8, 2011As with the majority of his work, the most notable tracks are all instrumental. [May 2011, p.89]
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May 17, 2011The guy's not a bad water-treader. Destroyed follows the understated elegance of 2009's Wait for Me even deeper into Ambient land; written on tour during sleepless nights in hotel rooms around the world.
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May 16, 2011All in all, Destroyed feels like both a return to the darkness from which Moby emerged in the first place, and perhaps his most year zero offering to date.
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Q MagazineJun 20, 2011He'll never repeat Play's monumental success, of course, but he's building a might back catalogue. [July 2011, p. 116]
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May 18, 2011It's a jumbled mess that's partly aggravating in its derivative nature. Not coincidentally, you live up to the album's title by its end. Still, like any long, tiring trip, it's the moments that count. Moby continues to excel in that.
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May 17, 2011Latecomers, as well as longtime fans whose favorite Moby material remains the Mimi Goese collaborations on Everything Is Wrong, should have no problem soaking it up.
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May 16, 2011Pitched somewhere between his two most famous albums, Play and 18, it's hardly groundbreaking but is enjoyable none the less.
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May 16, 2011Bearing in mind that music about touring is of more interest to the artist than to listeners, it's still easy to appreciate swathes of Destroyed.
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May 16, 2011It's a soothing, chillsome experience, though some tracks do strangle themselves in repetitive accretions.
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May 17, 2011Destroyed is slower than 2008's bright, clubby throwback Last Night and livelier than 2009's oft-despondent Wait For Me, but it's more like the latter, if only because none of the hooks stick.
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Jun 6, 2011The majority of the album is the future of all dinnerparties, the dinnerparty that never ends, a spooling aeon of trite politeness, as your dry android host projects his Facebook photos into your retina for eternity.
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Jun 2, 2011Despite a fairly catastrophic mid-album dip in quality, there are enough of the big soaring numbers, and a smattering of new ideas to see him through. So it's just like most other Moby albums really.
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Entertainment WeeklyMay 24, 2011Groovy but tepid. [20 May 2011, p.72]
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May 19, 2011A grandiose, instrumental finale, they're a reminder of the divinity that Moby was once capable of.
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May 17, 2011All the songs are encased behind such stylish glass that it's hard to feel much of anything while listening to Destroyed, much less identification with the plight of the nomadic musician.
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May 16, 2011Destroyed is an album created in the middle of the night for the middle of the night. Disappointment awaits those seeking anything more.
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May 16, 2011Mostly, though, Destroyed is about as appetizing as a warmed-over deli tray.
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May 16, 2011There is no scrape, no tension, no noisy bullshit, and Destroyed is eminently un-replayable as a result.
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May 16, 2011The motion is uniform, the form is monotonous, the experience disquieting but benign. Destroyed is more distracted than coolly distanced, a satellite unmoored by Ground Control.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 16
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Mixed: 5 out of 16
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