5 Stars for the bonus ambient disc

I think fans have to be honest about Hotel: It is a disappointing effort. The album begins with great promise. The intro is an excellent, subtle, synth piece. It suits the sterile, soft colours used in the cd art. From there the album drops off. Moby isn't much of a guitar player-so a near whole album of "post-punk"-ish pop tunes is hard to enjoy. "I like it" is particularly bad. There are some bright spots. "Raining Again" and "Lift Me up" are passable. The cover of New Order's "Temptation" with singer Dawn is actually fairly good. The album ends well with some nice ambient compositions. "Homeward Angel" is excellent.

Hotel

One of the two albums is mostly Brian Eno type of background music (good in the appropriate listening circumstances). The other album has a number of very good Moby vocals (with others) and I liked it a lot. I ordered this specifically because it contained songs I recently heard on the local non mainstream radio station

Great album

I love this album. From start to finish, I think this is the best Moby CD yet.