Wait For Me
by Moby
Metascore
65

Generally favorable reviews - based on 26 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 26
  3. Negative: 1 out of 26
  1. Observer Music Monthly
    60
    Yes, he's still plugging away, swapping the frenetic disco of 2008's "Last Night" for a more cultured sound.
  2. Mojo
    60
    It's a doleful piece, with many trad Moby elements present. [Jul 2009, p.94]
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  3. The Guardian
    60
    Recorded in his Manhattan flat and released on his own label, Wait for Me often allows Moby's vocalist pals from the Lower East Side to take the spotlight on a contemplative collection.
  5. Q Magazine
    60
    There's stirring emotion to 'Pale Horses' restrained mournfulness and the soulful vocals on the minimal 'Walk With Me,' though it can sound as if has a button on his laptiop that wafts this stuff out automatically. [Aug 2009, p.108]
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  6. Pitchfork
    54
    It's too listenable overall to be outright dismissed as some sort of flop. But it's too willfully unobtrusive and happy with its lack of ambition to try and sell as good pop, even in a year thin on the mediocre kind.
  7. Under The Radar
    50
    The one word that comes to mind when listening to Wait For Me is quiet--no matter what the number of sounds or sound sources. [Summer 2009, p.72]
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  8. No Ripcord
    50
    Wait For Me hugs the middle of the road with such caution, it’s strenuous to either love or hate.
  9. Entertainment Weekly
    42
    The album collects 16 droopy, drowsy, mostly instrumental tracks of gauzy piano and somnambulant? murmurings, only a very few of which (the mournful title track, the ominously lovely 'Slow Light') exhibit a pulse.
  10. New Musical Express (NME)
    40
    Wait For Me, though, mostly confirms even cheap-sounding wallpaper remains, sadly, wallpaper.
  11. Uncut
    40
    Elsewhere, sluggish excursions in ambient pop and a commitment to melancholia that borders on the opppressive suggests that all those years grasping at the advertising dollar have left a taint of bland that won't scrub off. [Aug 2009, p.96]
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User Score
7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 30 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 30
  3. Negative: 3 out of 30
  1. Zavadovski
    Sep 18, 2010
    6
    Although It's great to see Moby back to doing downbeat stuff again, This album suffers from way too many tracks that don't need to be here -Although It's great to see Moby back to doing downbeat stuff again, This album suffers from way too many tracks that don't need to be here - "Stock Radio" being an example. The songs, although in many places beautiful, suffer from an infuriating lack of progression: "A Seated Night" and "Ghost Return" in particular sound exactly the same at the start as they do at the end. In some places this can be really effective, but a whole album full grates after a couple of listens. The lyrics are also a little too direct for an album of this kind, "Pale Horses" being the main culprit.

    However, about half of this album makes for something really special. "Wait for Me" is haunting, and the euphoric burst of sound halfway through "Shot in the Back of the Head" and the quiet introversion of "Isolate" are Moby at his best - a lack of Focus is what eventually spoils this Album.    … Full Review »
  2. JayL
    Aug 3, 2009
    10
    A beautiful record. Moby at his best.
  3. mars75
    Jul 24, 2009
    10
    Moby definitely back to form...his best outing since 18 which is a masterpiece imho.
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