Hotel

Electronic · 2005 · 27 tracks

Hotel

A dual-natured exploration of transient spaces. One half offers polished, vocal-driven synth-pop; the other provides a vast, beatless ocean of cinematic ambient.

March 5, 2005 · Mute

A polished, melancholic reflection on urban loneliness and the beauty of transient moments.

Tracklist · 27 Tracks

01

Hotel Intro

1:56

02

Raining Again

3:46

03

Beautiful

3:12

04

Lift Me Up

3:19

05

Where You End

3:22

06

Temptation

4:55

07

Spiders

3:45

08

Dream About Me

3:22

09

Very

3:43

10

I Like It

3:46

11

Love Should

3:52

12

Slipping Away

3:39

13

Forever

3:39

14

Homeward Angel

5:42

15

Put The Headphones On

3:51

16

35 Minutes

4:52

17

Swear

6:41

18

Snowball

4:26

19

Blue Paper

6:08

20

Homeward Angel (Long)

10:58

21

Chord Sounds

7:25

22

Not Sensitive

3:10

23

Lilly

3:54

24

The Come Down

5:18

25

Overland

6:50

26

Live Forever

7:16

27

Aerial

5:50

Moments Worth Listening For

The soaring, anthemic synth hook of Lift Me Up that feels like a desperate escape from the city.

The fragile, stripped-back vulnerability of the Temptation cover that turns a dance classic into a lonely ballad.

The transition into the second disc where all beats vanish into a ten-minute wash of Homeward Angel.

Reviews

AllMusic

Where This Album Departs

How does Hotel sound next to the rest of Moby's catalogue?

Gentle+2.9σ

The vocals lean far further into gentle than the rest of the catalogue.

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