Hotel by Moby

Hotel, Moby's seventh album, checked in during March 2005, with Mute putting it out internationally on the 14th and V2 handling America on the 22nd. This is Moby unplugging the sampler: for the first time since 1993's Ambient he used no vocal samples at all, and he steered away from dance music toward alternative rock and downtempo, producing it himself.

The result is moody and polished, a rock record with a downtempo hush, and "Beautiful" is among its brighter moments. Early copies came with a second disc, Hotel: Ambient, which got its own expanded release in 2014. Critics were divided, but fans weren't: it reached No. 8 in the UK and No. 1 in Belgium and Switzerland, and by 2013 it had sold more than 2 million copies worldwide.

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