Customer Reviews
I Can't listne to this.... - By: A. Dunn, 12 May 2008 
I'm a pretty big fan of Moby but I have never really got on with this album. It's almost as if he picked his favourite part of Play (the end Gospel bit) & stayed there. The result is an album that doesn't go anywhere & has none of the dynamism of earlier work. No matter how many times I listen I find it depressing & hard to enjoy. A real shame.
requires many listens to truly reveal it's virtues.. first impressions are misleading.. - By: Mr. M. A. Reed, 01 Jul 2007 
Moby is the antichrist. I don't need to tell you about 1999's gigamillion, original selling 'Play' do I? Well at least it was original once, before it was licensed to 417 adverts, before it came bundled with every coffee table soldin the country, & even I, a fan of maverick genius, got sick of him.
18 is more of the same. For the first timein his career, Moby has stopped moving. Every album prior to this was a enormous leap forwardin style & content; be it 1990's minimalist house of 'Instinct', 1995's eclectic ambient gabba rave of 'Everything Is Wrong', 1996's psychotic-metal 'Animal Rights', or 1997's gentle, electronic 'The End Of Everything', Moby was always trying something new, moving somewhere. And now he's reached the end of his journey. He sold about 6 million of 'Play', & only a fool, or someone with integrity, would dare mess with the formula.
18 is a sequel to 'Play', & like all sequels it contains the same ingredients rehashedin a slightly different way to fool the people. Sampled gospel vocals rebuilt over mellow grooves? Check. Guest vocals from anonymous session musicians? Check. A complete lack of excitement throughout the whole of the second half? You betcha.
There are a handful of great tracks on here - the title track '18' & 'Look Back In' are interesting excursions into a territory he visited briefly on 'The End Of Everything', but other than that, this isn't a record that has any sense of urgency, vision, or personalityin it.
In the booklet he claims he has 3,000 unreleased songs. 3,000! And this is the best he can do? Anodyne, uninspired, catatonic repetition of an idea that was interestingin 1999, but now just seems oddly past its sell by date.
It seems with this release he's lost his vision, & is travelling rudderlessin circles. I know the album's only been out a day, but it's got none of that niggling, infectious sense of wonder or innovation - the compelling desire to listen to it again - that 'Play' had on it's first few exposures.
Great albums feel as if every time you hear them you're discovering something newin the sonic painting. This just feels like I've heard it all before, & done better, on another record Moby made.
18 might be a competent, well performed, well produced record, but its lacking the vital ingredient that makes records great: passion, vision, & the quest to take music somewhere it hasn't been before.
Comein Moby, you've lost the plot & your time is up.
Probably his best album - By: Mr. Clark Gillies, 08 Dec 2006 This is my favourite Moby album, becausein my opinion "Play" gets to much hype & I can only listen to the first 5 songs before moving on!
With this, it is a great album from start to finnish, with "Extreme Ways" being my stand out track (which is not even on "Go-Best of"!!!!)
If you have just gotin to Moby, start off with "Play" then move on to this!
MORE STELLAR WORK BY MOBY - By: miss s, 29 May 2006 "18" IS A GREAT CD...A LITTLE MORE DOWNTEMPO/AMBIENT THEN "PLAY" BUT ALL IN ALL STILL A VERY STRONG SHOWING...SOME OF MY FAVORITE MOBY TRAX EVER ARE ON THIS CD...YOU CANT GO WRONG
Moby back for more - By: Jamie E. I. Wright, 13 Jun 2004 
18 maybe even better than play depends really sort different style.We are all made stars a loving tune very cool.A flava of alot mixes & emotions of good a low moby keeping the talant in.
