Its tracks have graced innumerable adverts, trailers and soundtracks, but the emotion-stirring brilliance of Moby’s Play album was roundly ignored when first released back in May 1999.
Failing to chart at all in Moby’s native US, and landing at a paltry #33 in the UK album chart (where the lion’s share of Moby’s fanbase then resided) the man behind the literary-alluding monicker, Richard Melville Hall, had resigned himself to a depressing reality. It seemed that this diverse assortment of home studio-assembled tracks might just be the last hurrah of an ailing music career.
