The third album
from this French electronic music duo of Jean-Benoît
Dunckel and Nicolas Godin. This album doesn`t sound at all like
`Moon Safari`, their first effort. It is still electronically
oriented but less commercial / accessible. If you love their first CD you need
to hear this baby a lot to understand and fully appreciate it. This album (11
tracks = 60.42 minutes) is moody, dark at times, melancholic, introspective,
less accessible i.e. more personal indeed. It is electronic, downtempo, with
traces / elements of trip hop, future jazz, synth-pop, funk, blues,
experimental, minimalism and bedroom pop. Imagine a jam session with the
following unlikely participants: Boards Of Canada, Double,
Joy Division, early The Cure, Vangelis (his electronic
period), Portishead (circa dummy), Pink Floyd (when
Syd was still around), Eric`s Trip and Alan Parsons
Project (circa Eye in the sky and Amonia avenue). Standout
tracks:
4 – The
vagabond (5.37 minutes) = bluesy, moody, intimate bedroom
pop.
5 – Radian
(7.37 minutes) = instrumental dark trip hop.
10 – Don`t be
light (6.19 minutes) = beautifully dark / melancholic downtempo / trip hop =
if there`s a hit in there, that`s the one. If I had more Air I`d
be happy right now.
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