This compilation captures a time when Moby was at his turntable peak. Rather than a random collection of work, this disc features 12 tracks from movie scores.
On the world-renowned Amphetamine Reptile label, there’s a demented, hellbent-for-pleather garage-punk quartet, and their name happens to be the same as ours.
Although Go! does not quite capture the original vitality and rawness of the band’s sound, what it does is give us some incredibly sweet, catchy pop songs.
Thriller removes the assembly-line slickness and cloying corn that have worn this most American of musics down to a palatable gruel. Modest, sincere, poetic.
A few of the songs have a cool groove, but the distorted chorus is a little too “Fuckin’ Hostile,” and the cheeseball delay on the vocals is so old, it stinks.