Much of the album is rich with Moby's synthetic strings. It would have provided a suitable end to the album, but instead, it's planted in the middle, surrounded by an ambient piano ballad and surprisingly understated showcase for Grey. The emotional apex is "The Perfect Life," a neo-gospel number where Moby and Coyne are backed by a choir of ten voices. "A Long Time" has an insistent, kind of dejected chug, while "Saints" sounds like Moby trying to recall how Massive Attack's "Unfinished Sympathy" goes. It's another downcast, occasionally grand-sounding set suited for solitary home listening. He made a considerable change by seeking vocals from an extended cast of relatively known singers - including Mark Lanegan, the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, Cold Specks, Skylar Grey, and Damien Jurado - rather than a handful of locals, and he had Mark "Spike" Stent mix it all. Following a move from New York to Los Angeles, he recorded almost all the instrumentation by himself. Innocents is in line with Wait for Me (2009) and Destroyed (2011), Moby's most intimate and isolated albums. Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs.
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