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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, 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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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 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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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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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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May 16, 2011Mostly, though, Destroyed is about as appetizing as a warmed-over deli tray.
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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 19, 2011A grandiose, instrumental finale, they're a reminder of the divinity that Moby was once capable of.
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Entertainment WeeklyMay 24, 2011Groovy but tepid. [20 May 2011, p.72]
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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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May 16, 2011It's a soothing, chillsome experience, though some tracks do strangle themselves in repetitive accretions.
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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, 2011Pitched somewhere between his two most famous albums, Play and 18, it's hardly groundbreaking but is enjoyable none the less.
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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