{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Baby Monkey | type = studio | artist = Voodoo Child | cover = Voodoo Child Baby Monkey album cover.jpg | alt = | released = January 27, 2004 | recorded = 2002–2003 | studio = | genre = | length = 66:17 | label = * V2 * Mute | producer = Moby | prev_title = The End of Everything | prev_year = 1996 | next_title = | next_year = | misc = {{Singles | name = Baby Monkey | type = studio | single1 = Light Is in Your Eyes"/"Electronic | single1date = November 11, 2003 | single2 = Take It Home"/"Strings | single2date = December 2003 }} }}
'''''Baby Monkey''''' is the second studio album by Voodoo Child, an alternate pseudonym of American electronica musician Moby. It was released in January 2004 by record labels V2 and Mute.
==Release== ''Baby Monkey'' was released on January 27, 2004, by record labels V2 and Mute. According to the album's liner notes, Moby released the album under his pseudonym so he could concentrate on the music without having to worry about promotion or record sales.
Two singles were released: "Light Is in Your Eyes" in November 2003 and "Take It Home" in December.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/68268/mobys-alter-ego-rears-baby-monkey|title=Moby's Alter Ego Rears 'Baby Monkey'|work=Billboard|date=November 7, 2003|accessdate=May 12, 2019}}</ref>
== Reception == {{Music ratings | MC = 58/100<ref name="Metacritic">{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/baby-monkey |title=Reviews for ''Baby Monkey'' by Voodoo Child – Metacritic |website=Metacritic |accessdate=June 5, 2015}}</ref> | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="Bush">{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/baby-monkey-mw0000331164|title=Voodoo Child - Baby Monkey|website=AllMusic|last=Bush|first=John|access-date=3 June 2024}}</ref> | rev2 = ''Blender'' | rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="Blender">{{cite journal |date=April 2004 |title=[''Baby Monkey'' review] |magazine=Blender |page=139}}</ref> | rev3 = ''Entertainment Weekly'' | rev3score = C<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,578464,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090426031637/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,578464,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 26, 2009 |title=''Baby Monkey'' <nowiki>|</nowiki> EW.com |date=January 26, 2004 |website=Entertainment Weekly |accessdate=June 4, 2015}}</ref> | rev4 = ''The Guardian'' | rev4score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/jan/30/popandrock.shopping5 |title=CD: Voodoo Child, ''Baby Monkey'' <nowiki>| Music |</nowiki> The Guardian |last=Simpson |first=Dave |author-link=Dave Simpson (music critic) |date=January 30, 2004 |website=The Guardian |accessdate=June 4, 2015}}</ref> | rev5 = ''Mojo'' | rev5score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="Mojo">{{cite journal |date=March 2004 |title=[''Baby Monkey'' review] |magazine=Mojo |page=104}}</ref> | rev6 = ''Pitchfork'' | rev6score = 4.2/10<ref name="Zwickel">{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8496-baby-monkey/ |title=Voodoo Child: ''Baby Monkey'' |last=Zwickel |first=Jonathan |date=7 June 2004 |website=Pitchfork |accessdate=22 September 2011}}</ref> | rev7 = ''Q'' | rev7score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="Q">{{cite journal |date=March 2004 |title=[''Baby Monkey'' review] |magazine=Q |page=113}}</ref> | rev8 = ''Spin'' | rev8score = 5/10<ref name="Spin">{{cite journal |date=March 2004 |title=[''Baby Monkey'' review] |magazine=Spin |page=96}}</ref> | rev9 = ''Uncut'' | rev9score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="Uncut">{{cite journal |date=February 2004 |title=[''Baby Monkey'' review] |magazine=Uncut |page=74}}</ref> | rev10 = ''Urb'' | rev10score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite journal |date=May 2004 |title=[''Baby Monkey'' review] |magazine=Urb |page=87}}</ref> }}
''Baby Monkey'' has received mixed reviews from critics. ''Mojo'' wrote: "''Baby Monkey'' has a strangely nostalgic feel – as if he's reanimated his old raver's soul, with its favourite beats and bass lines intact."<ref name="Mojo"/> ''Uncut'' called it "An interesting addition to the artist's varied oeuvre."<ref name="Uncut"/> ''Blender'' wrote: "As self-indulgent side projects go, this could be a whole lot worse."<ref name="Blender"/>
On the other hand, AllMusic wrote that it "Often sounds virtually identical to a generic dance record circa 1992."<ref name="Bush">{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/baby-monkey-mw0000331164|title=Voodoo Child - Baby Monkey|website=AllMusic|last=Bush|first=John|access-date=3 June 2024}}</ref> ''Q'' wrote: "''Baby Monkey'' has nothing of the danger, adventure or indeed chemical frisson that defined rave culture—it's just smug sonic wallpaper."<ref name="Q"/> ''Spin'' noted: "These tracks lack the energy to power a glow stick."<ref name="Spin"/> Jonathan Zwickel of Pitchfork wrote: "There's no life breathing through these 12 flaccid tracks, each of which would've seemed regressive even in Moby's early-90s heyday—today, each is a total anachronism."<ref name="Zwickel"/>
== Track listing ==
# "Gotta Be Loose in Your Mind" – 4:39 # "Minors" – 4:54 # "Take It Home" – 5:09 # "Light Is in Your Eyes" – 6:14 # "Electronics" – 6:24 # "Strings" – 6:50 # "Gone" – 5:14 # "Unh Yeah" – 4:27 # "Obscure" – 4:11 # "Last" – 3:53 # "Harpie" – 5:24 # "Synthesisers" – 9:15
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