Talkie Walkie

• Artist : Air
• Binding : Audio CD
• EAN : 0724359663227
• Label : Source
• Manufacturer : Source
• Number Of Discs : 1
• Package Dimensions : 0.54 inches (Height) x 5.55 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 4.97 inches (Width)
• Package Quantity : 1
• Product Group : Music
• Publisher : Source
• Release Date : 2004-01-26
• SKU : 0724359663227-11
• Studio : Source
• UPC : 724359663227

Talkie Walkie comes five years after their landmark Moon Safari and Parisian mood-enhancers Air are back doing what they do best. Famously shy of ever repeating themselves, JB Dunckel and Nicolas Godin have filled in the years with the poorly received follow-up, 10,000hz Legend (even they think it strange), and an eerily effective soundtrack to Sofia Coppola's Virgin Suicides. Nice enough in their own niche way, but a far cry from what people actually wanted. Happily, Talkie Walkie reunites us with the Air that we love: two hopelessly indulgent romantics with an ear in the past and an eye on the future. It's meltingly good stuff--a collection of cool, cosmic pop songs that dispense with notions of time and space, wallowing instead on a cloud of poignant psychedelia. With vocal duties this time taken by the boys themselves, and gorgeously fragile strings courtesy of Serge Gainsbourg collaborator, Michel Colombier, they get off to a good start. Perhaps the introduction of an outside producer, in this case Radiohead's Nigel Godrich, has forced such beautifully measured focus? Whatever, touchy-feely epics such as the heavenly "Cherry Blossom Girl" sit well next to electronic masterpieces such as "Ran", whose enveloping tracked vocals recall the 10cc classic "I'm Not in Love". --Paul Tierney

- Amazon.co.uk Review

Tracks:

• Disc 1

  • 1: Venus
  • 2: Cherry Blossom Girl
  • 3: Run
  • 4: Universal Traveler
  • 5: Mike Mills
  • 6: Surfing On A Rocket
  • 7: Another Day
  • 8: Alpha Beta Gaga
  • 9: Biological
  • 10: Alone In Kyoto

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