Moby - One Time We Lived

by Fiona Hutchings

published: 11 / 12 / 2009

Label: Little Idiot
Format: CDS

intro

Fabulous early 80's electro pop-influenced new single from Moby

Moby's latest single shows the diminutive muso is still very much reliving the electro pop of the early 80's. If the last single 'Mistake' was a nod to early Joy Division, 'One Time We Lived' pays tribute to Bowie, the Thompson Twins and others with its slick synth and multi tracked vocals. Vocally there is a distinct Morten Harket of A-Ha fame tremor. Moby sings and a very mechanical voices repeats his words in something little more than a whisper. It lends a very eerie, almost other worldly atmosphere to the track. And there isn't so much a chorus as the repeated refrain of "Isn't that what we wanted?/ Isn't that what we had?/Do we know what we need now that's it's gone?" and it does get stuck in your head straight away. If anything at 3 and a half minutes it feels too short,

Track Listing:-

1 One Time We Lived (Radio Edit)
2 One Time We Lived (Matrix & Futurebound Remix)
3 One Time We Lived (Laurent Wolf Remix)
4 One Time We Lived (Sharooz Remix)
5 One Time We Lived (HiJack's One Time Remix)
6 One Time We Lived (Kap Bambino Remix)
7 One Time We Lived (Lulu Rouge Remix)
8 One Time We Lived (Moguai Remix)

Band Links:-

https://www.facebook.com/mobymusic
http://www.moby.com/
https://twitter.com/thelittleidiot

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