You may remember Animal Rights for being Moby's punk album, and while it's commercial and critical shortcomings led to Play, a smorgasbord of excellent music spanning the contemporary electronic spectrum, the album is still under-appreciated. It's punk, done a bit more synthetically when it comes to the drums and bass, but the guitar and Richard Hall's voice are both organic and lively. His vocal performance absolutely steals the show here, as it's so vested and authentic that's it's hard not to fall in love with it. The compositions are pretty standard fare for what genre they're in, but there's enough genres covered (punk rock, alternative rock, industrial rock, ambient) that nothing gets stale. It's also punk as hell in ethos; nobody but Moby even thought he could do this, and his record label sure didn't want him to, but went and did it anyway because that's what he wanted to create. Really awesome stuff, very underrated.
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