Rapid Fire Reviews: The First Week Of The Year
After the chaos of the year-end lists I took some time off the blog, went to the beach with my friends and even started a new job. But it's time to get back to my favorite pastime, reviewing records. The first week of the year was surprisingly lucrative in terms of new releases and while there's a record or two I plan on covering in full, here are the ones I wanna run through real quick. Ambient 23 - Moby Moby isn't shy about releasing a LOT of music and he kicked off the year with a big ambient project in Ambient 23 . The 16 tracks here run almost two and a half hours and they really do feel like a throwback to some classic ambient music. That's because Moby deliberately used older instruments to record the album and also mentioned that it's intended to throwback to some of the early days of ambient like Brian Eno and Jean-Michelle Jarre. He wasn't kidding about that because I could have easily placed this project somewhere in the late 70s or early 80s if I di...