Air

Moon Safari

Gravity Defying!

Review Score: StarStarStarStarStarStarStarStarStarStar (10/10)
With the ever increasing frequency of so called 'chill out' music hitting the high street CD racks, it becomes more and more apparent how good this album by Dunckel and Godin actually is. While many of the knob twiddlers whom Air have not so much blazed the trail for as lightly illuminated it often seem to share a vision as fuzzy and out of focus as their shimmering musical mirages, Air have always been relatively direct. The assuredness of their melodies throughout guarantees that however high the soundscapes float they are always within a breathable atmosphere, so that the two longest tracks on the album, the opening instrumental La Femme D'Argent and New Star In The Sky, an even more affecting space anthem than Primal Scream's Inner Flight, are the most compelling and experimental chill outs here. Compelling chill out music may appear slightly paradoxical, but such contradictions are what all the best crossover music is all about, and precisely why Moon Safari became so mainstream in the first place. Other notable tracks are the three singles: Sexy Boy, the big hit which revived the vocoder and satirised - in French - the overly fashion conscious; Kelly Watch The Stars, a similarly vocodered vocal with a more-disco-than-funk accompaniement - compared to its predecessor - and some nice classical piano scales; and All I need, the closest Air will ever get to a soul ballad, but not quite as enticing as the other Beth Hirsch vocal, You make It Easy. Those who think that chill out and easy listening are symonymous with lifts, wallpaper and coming down may well be right, but if they are, then Air are the exception that proves the rule. Air take you up.

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