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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Single of the year!, 20 Sep 2005
Simply the best record of this year or any other, taken from the album of the year also.This record will make your whole body weep and fall in love with everything again...and again...and again... Essential
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This will enhance your life, 16 Sep 2005
By A Customer
Once every few years a song comes along that MUST be bought. Sebastien Tellier has delivered an almighty classic. I have read reviews that have compared this track to Massive Attack's suberb Unfinished Sympathy, simply put that comparison does not do La Ritournelle any justice, there are simply no comparison that can be made. Tellier uses the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra to great effect, to create a haunting and enchanting track. Taken from the album Politics (the other tracks are somewhat of a disappointment after this), it has been around for a around 18 months and has never been far from being played in my CD player.Go on buy it this single will change the way the thhink about music.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hypnotically beautiful, 28 Dec 2007
This track is breathtaking. There are a few songs that, when they come on, just make you stop what you're doing and pay attention, and this enchanting track is up there with the best of them.
'La Ritournelle' is a beautiful combination of mesmeric strings, driving yet understated rhythms and flighty vocals, which puts this track somewhere between chillout, pop, and stripped down house.
On my itunes, I have this track classed as 'Lo-Fi'. While not being entirely sure what this means technically, I use it to mean a chilled out, hypnotic track that is NOT just background music, but deserves (and demands) a closer listen.
In this sense, 'La Ritournelle' warrants comparison with tracks like 'El Manana' by Gorillaz, 'Sweet Song' by Blur, 'Fresh Feeling' by Eels, and 'Porcelain' by Moby - all beautiful, haunting songs whose very charm comes from being delightfully unhurried and unafraid to experiment with the orchestration and rhythm.
'La Ritournelle' is almost symphonic, not just in its use of the orchestra, but also in the way the track seems to have movements within it - cyclically changing from the musing, almost melancholic piano riff and haunting violins to the quirkily romantic vocals and the charming bells, always underscored by the tumbling drum beats in the background.
I first heard this track in a club in Paris, and quite frankly wanted to hug the DJ. If this beautiful track is the future of club music, then play on maestro...
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