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Originally released : 03-06-2007
Release date : 06-02-2007
Album name : Pocket Symphony
Artist : Air
Ripped by : Fisteh`
Genre : Electronica
Label : Astralwerks/EMI
Encoding Software : Lame EOS
Quality : -V 2
Tracks : 12
Size of Files : 67,5 MB
─ Track list ───────────────────────────────────────── ─── ─ ─
01 04:03 Space Maker
02 05:02 Once Upon A Time
03 04:03 One Hell Of A Party
04 03:27 Napalm Love
05 04:19 Mayfair Song
06 04:07 Left Bank
07 03:51 Photograph
08 03:05 Mer Du Japon
09 03:32 Lost Message
10 03:36 Somewhere Between Waking And Sleeping
11 04:33 Redhead Girl
12 04:21 Night Sight
Total time: 47:59 min
─ Release notes ─────────────────────────────────────── ─── ─ ─
Ever since Moon Safari was hailed as an instant
classic, Air has swung back and forth between the
experimental and accessible sides that Nicolas Godin
and Jean-Benoεt Dunckel united so perfectly on their
debut. 10,000 Hz Legend might have been too grandiose
and aggressively experimental for some Air fans, but
Talkie Walkie sometimes felt as if the duo was
presenting the most widely palatable version of their
music possible. On Pocket Symphony, Dunckel and Godin
find a balance between pretty and inventive that they
haven't struck since, well, Moon Safari, even though it
isn't nearly as immediate -- even by Air's standards,
this is an extremely introspective and atmospheric
album. It's beyond clichΘd to call the duo's music
filmic; nevertheless, "Space Maker" and "Night Sight"
play like the album's opening titles and ending
credits, bracketing a set of songs that are sadder and
wiser than anything Air has done since The Virgin
Suicides (particularly "Lost Message," which could have
easily appeared on that soundtrack). Made around the
same time Dunckel and Godin were working with Jarvis
Cocker and Neil Hannon (who also appear here) on
Charlotte Gainsbourg's 5:55 and Dunckel was recording
his solo project Darkel, Pocket Symphony could be seen
as part of a loose trilogy; if so, it's more in line
with 5:55's moody romanticism than Darkel's hyper-pop
(where, apparently, any lighter-hearted tracks along
the lines of Talkie Walkie's "Alpha Beta Gaga" or
"Surfing on a Rocket" ended up).
However, Pocket Symphony doesn't feel as serenely
untouchable as some of Air's previous work, and these
darker cracks and wrinkles give it character. These
songs are often unsettling, but gently so, like dreams
that are still vivid but hard to explain upon waking.
The Neil Hannon-sung "Somewhere Between Waking and
Sleeping" is the most obvious example of Pocket
Symphony's fever dream atmosphere, but there are plenty
of others: "Photograph," a quintessentially sensuous
Air track, gives the impression of something a little
sinister occurring just out of frame; "Redhead Girl" is
a lush meditation on unrequited love so paralyzing that
time itself stops. The entire album deals with toxic
love and its fallout, but Dunckel and Godin alternate
between romanticizing heartbreak and showing just how
dreary it can be -- although, skilled mood-makers that
they are, they manage to make dreary sound pretty
romantic, too. The deceptively delicate single "Once
Upon a Time" darkens its fairy tale imagery with the
fact that once upon a time might be never, while the
outstanding "One Hell of a Party," which features
Jarvis Cocker on vocals, presents a breakup as a
hangover (a sentiment Cocker also explored brilliantly
on Pulp's This Is Hardcore).
Pocket Symphony pairs Air with producer Nigel Godrich,
which is an inspired choice -- not just because Godrich
has a similarly atmospheric touch and adds lots of
fascinating sonic details, but because he helps Air
keep the album intimate, not polished into a state of
distant perfection. "Left Bank," which blends humming
with a cello and captures Godin's acoustic guitar so
clearly it sounds like he's strumming it behind you, is
a gorgeous example of how well this collaboration
works. The Japanese influence on Talkie Walkie and
Air's music for Lost in Translation is deepened on
Pocket Symphony, with shamisen and koto (which Godin
spent a year learning to play) adding to its ethereal
beauty, particularly on "Mer du Japon." Musically and
thematically, this is some of Air's most elegant,
mature music; it does what it does so compellingly that
any attempts to be "poppy" would miss the point.
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