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000-air-pocket_symphony-(proper)-2007.nfo
ARTIST: Air
TITLE: Pocket Symphony
LABEL: Astralwerks Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 188kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 47m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-03-06
RIP DATE: 2007-02-26
Track List
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1. Space Maker 4:02
2. Once Upon A Time 5:02
3. One Hell Of A Party 4:02
4. Napalm Love 3:27
5. Mayfair Song 4:18
6. Left Bank 4:07
7. Photograph 3:51
8. Mer Du Japon 3:04
9. Lost Message 3:32
10. Somewhere Between Waking And 3:36
Sleeping
11. Redhead Girl 4:33
12. Night Sight 4:21
Release Notes:
NOTE: One release of this was nuked for p2p rip bought from WEB, and the other
was bad encoder, ie. a webrip. here's the real deal. enjoy a lovely and
anticipated album.
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.
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