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Moby review – full of teenage energy on first tour in over a decade
With songs either maximalist or stripped back, there’s not much subtlety during this 25th anniversary tour for the once-ubiquitous Play – but there are some head-rush thrills
With a five-piece band and two backing singers, Moby often lets them do the musical heavy lifting as he pinballs around the stage like a whizzed-up teenager hammering away at his guitar, or working up the audience like an overly animated fitness instructor. Or on Go, as the ominous drones of Angelo Badalamenti’s sampled Twin Peaks score rings out, he furiously slaps bongos as cello and violin collide, alongside thunderous drums, to elevate the song into a giddy rush. He closes with the pummelling techno-jungle of Feeling So Real and the high-bpm hardcore stomper Thousand as he climbs on top of a box, basking in a giant spotlight with arms outstretched, Christ-like, before the bald, sober, maybe inbred, vegan raver disappears into the night.
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