Amazon.co.uk Review
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
Album Description
To celebrate the band's illustrious first 10 years, in which they have enjoyed many career-defining moments and countless critical accolades, Virgin is proud to present this expanded, deluxe version of 'Moon Safari', a beautiful artifact which no true Air fan will want to miss out on.
This strictly limited edition release is a 3-disc package wrapped up in a collector case bound book (DVD-size).
Disc 1 features the seminal debut album while the 10-track second Disc includes rarities, remixes (Beck, Moog Cookbook) and key songs from radio sessions recorded during 1998 on both sides of the Atlantic. Disc 3 - a DVD - is the hour-long Mike Mills documentary 'Eating, Sleeping, Waiting and Playing' filmed in New York, London and Paris during Air's first tour.