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Apparently Moby put the word out that he wanted amateur directors to take a crack at creating music videos for his most recent album, Wait for Me.

This one was done by Jessica Dimmock -- for the record's title track -- and it's harrowing in its subtlety and simplicity.

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Since I already brought up the subject of silly Veganism once this week, let's play a little Moby. As much as he seems at first glance to be the easiest human being in the world to make fun of -- I said seems, not is -- the man continues to make really interesting music. I was admittedly ready to give up on him when it looked like, after the brilliant Play, he was beginning to do nothing more than rehash his own work -- but then came this year's Wait for Me, which was very, very good.

And now he's released a deluxe edition of that album with new music and a second disc comprised entirely of gorgeous ambient mixes of the songs on Wait for Me. (I've already downloaded all of disc 2 seeing as how I'm an absolute fiend for Moby's ambient material.)

Here's one of the new tracks, though. It's One Time We Lived.

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An ambient return to form for Moby and a video directed by David Lynch.

Here's Shot in the Back of the Head.

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Moby's 1999 album Play was excellent and innovative from start to finish. In the nine years since its release, he hasn't been able to put together anything that comes even remotely close to it in terms of quality.

This song however, from his most recent album, gives me hope that he may still have some decent material left in him.

Here's the hyper-kinetic Alice.