Air - Pocket Symphony
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Artist: AirEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2007-03-06
Music Label: Astralwerks
Soundtracks:
- Space Maker
- Once Upon A Time
- Hell Of A Party
- Napalm Love
- Mayfair Song
- Left Bank
- Photograph
- Mer du Japon
- Lost Message
- Somewhere Between Waking And Sleeping
- Redhead Girl
- Night Sight
Music reviews of Pocket Symphony
Music Review: The best chill cd around
Rating: 4 Stars
I started to listen to Air around Moon Safari and have always loved their electronic pop. This album however is different and not for everyone, even some Air fans. It is very mellow and relaxed, however if you are patient and just relax and enjoy this music it is great fill music. I listened to this all last summer and the summer before, I plan to do the same this summer. It is great to listen to with the wind blowing in your hair, or laying out in the sun, that put me to sleep. The truth is it is rather boring, but not everything is Coldplay or Spoon, not everything has to be catchy music. Music can produce many different feelings and atmospheres we do not need to limit to music that gets us dancing or singing. Air produced a very mature album and I hope they continue to create great albums.
Description of Pocket Symphony
From the creators of the classic albums "Moon Safari" and "Talkie Walkie", Air deliver a career masterpiece, their most seductive and accomplished work to date.Features guest vocals by Jarvis Cocker and Neil Hannon (The Divine Comedy).
Includes the single "Once Upon A Time".
Some bands like to thwart expectations, and Air is one of them. "Spacemaker," the opening of Pocket Symphony, sounds like a cousin to their instrumental retro-lounge "La Femme D'Argent" from 1998's Moon Safari, right down to the electric bass break in the middle. But this isn't a return to their breakthrough sound. "Spacemaker" really does pave the way for an almost classically somnolent outing from the French duo. Air once proclaimed, "In any classical song you can take five seconds of it and make a loop and you make a great pop song with it." I think they took that to heart on an album that echoes Debussy, Bach, and Reich, but which also contains a Beatlesque eclecticism redolent of Revolver. But instead of the Beatles' Indian flourishes, Air look to Japan, using a plucked koto on a couple of tracks, but also a zen garden sense of sonic placement. Although Jarvis Cocker from Pulp and Neil Hannon of Divine Comedy sing on a couple of tunes--adding some emotional gravitas--Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel do most of the vocalizing in their preternatural Munchkins-on-Quaaludes lisp. Air are known for their chilled melancholy, but the mood of Pocket Symphony is introspectively somber. Only "Mer du Japon" rises to a groove, while the rest recline in a luxurious torpor. That mood works especially well on instrumentals like the minimalist cycles of "Night Sight" and the Enoesque "Lost Message," with its circular piano line and ice-sheathed string synthesizers. Pocket Symphony won't yield any pop hits, but it could be the soundtrack to endless rainy afternoons. --John Diliberto
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