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Moon Safari, the first album proper by this pair of middle-class Frenchmen, easily survives unscathed from its billing as that most deadly of sub-genres: dinner party music. True, Moon Safari, with its blatant bliss-provoking easy listening chimes, sits well beside Everything But the Girl's Walking Wounded or Portishead's Dummy, but the album is steeped in too much musical verve and gallic humour to become as dull as Chardonnay. "Sexy Boy", the first single, is a rock-out slab of electronica about a toy monkey, for instance--hardly the thing to discuss in polite society. This album's highs come with their two marriages with the contributing vocals of American Beth Hirsch. "All I Need" and "You Make It Easy" are shockingly successful, with Hirsch bringing gravitas and sincerity, flagging the album with strong emotional pointers in the midst of their musical adventures. If you didn't know, you'd think her words were sampled from a lost jazz classic--that's how good this record sounds. --Charlie Porter
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AIR Moon Safari (1998 UK 10-track CD album including Sexy Boy & Kelly Watch The Stars sealed picture sleeve)
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I bought this album speculatively because it had been recommended to me by the automated Amazon system. On reading the other reviews it sounded like a great album and, when it arrived, I was not disappointed.
La Femme d'Argent& relaxes you into your seat/bed/cell in 7 minutes of musical perfection which, although it can play unobtrusively in the background, demands that every chord and note is listened to, and absorbed. Tracks like this, and the beautiful Ce Matin La are contrasted by the poppy, high-bass Sexy Boy.
The album is consistent in the relaxed, but by no means easy-listening nature of the tracks, but also wonderfully diverse in its styles. The introduction of a female voice on All I Need and You Make it Easytakes the emphasis off the instrumentalists, and allows them to play with a beautiful set of vocal harmonies.
If you want dinner party music, do not buy this album - it's just too good to be played in the background.
41 of 42 people found the following review helpful
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What can I say? If I sound over the top, it's because this is how the album makes me feel. I bought Moon Safari and Premiers Symptomes (also by Air) from Amazon based purely on other reviews. What I found out when I put the CD's into my player is that Air are one of those bands who can change your mood, your day, your ideas of music in the space of one album. I say one album, but I recommend you listen to Premiers Symptomes then Moon safari back to back. By doing this you get to see how Air's ideas changed, and you will also notice how they remain consistently brilliant. I like EVERY track on Moon Safari as much as the last, but my favourite track is Ce Matin La. Listen to it on headphones. It paints a visual picture in your mind using sound. Moon Safari is simply an album that, when you hear it you think, well, nothing else matters. That wasn't too over the top was it?
28 of 29 people found the following review helpful
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The rain starts to fall, a soothing bass riff floats in, an organ theme emerges, and La Voyage de Penelope begins. What an opener, and what a perfect way to relax into this hot bubble bath of an album!
Sexy Boy is still their most famous song and although a top tune, is not particularly indicative of their more laid-back style. Songs such as this may sound repetitive at first, but after a few listens, they become hypnotic, with delicate and intricate changes on each verse and chorus.
Beth Hirsh's breathy, Jane Birkin-like vocals add sex to the combination, and songs like Kelly Watch the Stars make ostensibly robotic, synthesised music sound as soulful and rootsy as any blues band.
Elsewhere there's the trumpet motif of Ce Matin-La and the pre-Cher Vocoder antics of Remember, the sadness of New Star in the Sky and the bleakness of Talisman.
Every song is beautifully crafted and performed, spanning the supposed gulf between primal dance music and pan-generational songsmithery.
Definitely the first 21st Century pop album.
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Love it!
Its great listening to Moon Safari on Vynal, I love this album and play it daily!
I keep the cd in my car : )
I keep the cd in my car : )
Published 2 days ago by jacks
Excellent
Excellent quality, would use again. Arrived promptly. The album itself is fantastic and a must have for anyone with good taste in music.
Published 14 days ago by Jacques I
The soundtrack of romance
For me this album is intrical to my life. It was the soundtrack that played during the courtship of my wife and it still is today. Perfection in every way.
Published 3 months ago by Perry Royston
Gallic Bread
"Matt has created a lovely space in the 'marster' bedroom..." doo be doooo. Oh yes, we've all heard this in the background of the latest "do up you house" show on C4. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Jimothy
Amazing CD
I've discovered this band because it was shown as a similar as Royksopp and after I listened I just wanted to buy it.
I recomend it 100%. Read more
I recomend it 100%. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Barbara
Un classique Chill Out album que vous devez acheter ce pour votre...
Liberally laced with vintage Moog synths, vocoders and phaser effects (a hint of Oxygene perhaps?) Moon Safari is undeniably retro in feel but modern in take. Read more
Published 16 months ago by BD
A beautiful electronic gem
I have to admit, I didn't bother with Air back in the 90s, my music collection being firmly dancefloor-oriented but I'm glad I gave Moon Safari a proper listen, now I'm older and... Read more
Published 17 months ago by T. Spencer
Moon Safari: A breath of fresh air
Air is a duo of French musicians, Nicolas Godin and Jean Benoit Dunckel. They started playing alternative rock in the 1980s in Paris, but reached maturity composing music that... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Daniel Margrain
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simply one of the best albums ever made. stands out a mile in the decade. have listened to it 100+ times and not bored yet. Read more
Published on 9 May 2010 by c t e
Karma for one
This gets better on every hearing, if you want to relax = this is all you need.
Published on 15 Feb 2010 by Steven Greatwood
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