Rave music has a lot to answer for. Things such as glowsticks, fluffy pants and string tops, grown adults sucking on dummies – all wrong wrong wrong!

But nothing that has come from rave is as terrible as Moby’s latest “Hotel”. This post-rave, adult contemporary bullshit is a prime example of what happens when you go off party drugs, so I say keep buying those dummies and glowsticks, I’d rather you be immature forever than see you turn into a type of person capable of producing the kind of crap you’ll find on this album.

When listening to this album, it feels like Moby has gone out of his way to annoy you personally. The whole album is full of dull and uninspired music over which Moby himself warbles about even more tedious rubbish. Apparently Moby didn’t use samples on this album, which in my book is a good thing, because he probably would have ruined the original versions for me as well. As it stands, his cover of New Order’s Temptation is an insult to one of the greatest electronic music groups of our time. At least he doesn’t sing on this track, but the woman who does simply ruins the song further.

No doubt this kind of easy listening electronic elevator music, being so generic in it’s appeal, will please the type of listener who is nearing 40 and the inevitable mid life crisis, but frankly I find it boring and tedious and insulting. Some people may attempt to call it thought provoking, but the only thought I had whilst listening to songs such as Raining Again and Come Down were “thank fuck I still enjoy partying because I don’t want to turn out like this tosser!”

Moby once said; “in my own presumptuous way, I believe the world is a better place when there’s a lot of quiet ambient music in it. It’s like aural Xanax”. Common side effects of Xanax include Sleepiness, Drowsiness, Depression, Nausea, Vomiting, Diarrhoea / Constipation, Headache, and/or Agressive Behaviour, and you’ll no doubt get the same result after repeated listening to Moby’s Hotel.