Pocket Symphony
Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel's quietest and most austere offering could be one of the year's best-sounding records, but it'll also keep many of the band's pop fans at arm's length.
Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin of Air are no strangers to film music. They did the music for Sofia Coppola's Virgin Suicides and contributed to both her subsequent Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette<, and their early Moog-drenched fantasias have always been so cheesily retro-futuristic that they could…
The worst of Pocket Symphony is dull and overly familiar, and the best is familiar and gently gorgeous.
Pocket Symphony, the fourth studio album by French duo Air, is a stovetop reduction of the band's atmospheric sound.