Moon Safari - Air > Reviews

Advantages: Beautiful relaxing tracks.
Disadvantages: Sometimes it's good to be tense. Bring on The Clash!

...exactly the track's use on Moon Safari 9/10 Le Voyage De Penelope Yet another peak on the album, the last track is relentless in it's ability to relax. The instruments rise from nowhere, and the tone is somewhere between Pick Floyd, Kraftwerk and Massive Attack 10/10 Overall Moon Safari is THE Air album to own. It is the album on which they most shine (at least for now) and is also the most accessable of their albums, ever so much more ... Read review

Advantages: Blissful and inspiring.
Disadvantages: Perhaps not as popular as they deserve to be.

This is the benchmark against which I mark other albums. It was when listening to this album in the car one day that I was inspired by it. The simplicity of the piano arpeggios in "Kelly Watch The Stars" made me look at my own composition that I was in the process of writing in a completely different way. This music is not only very good background music but is also excellent for listening to in detail. Everytime I listen to it I find something ... Read review

Advantages: Beautiful, laid-back grooves
Disadvantages: None

I first fell in love with Air when I heard Sexy Boy for the first time – that amazingly twisted bass line – that you will recognise when you hear it, alerted me to the band – and when I got their album, I was immensely impressed. The singles – Sexy Boy + Kelly Watch the Stars – are fantastic, but there are better songs on the album: La Femme d’Argent (lady of money – summat like that) has beautiful piano + bass riffs, mixed with highly strung Rhodes ... Read review

Advantages: soothing, haunting, beautiful, upbeat, uplifting! I could go on! ;-)
Disadvantages: none

...a copy of the album Moon Safari for my birthday! Moon Safari is easily the best album of the last ten years. It’s brilliant to chill out to on long sunny days and equally soothing on long winters nights in front of the fire. I can even get away with listening to this album at work as it’s soothing sounds easily placate my boss! What Air gives us is a synthesised sound for a new millennium; haunting instrumentals like La Femme D’argent; beautiful ... Read review

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Unbelievably good album. With tracks as goose-pimply as "All I Need" (with vocals from the highly under-rated Beth Hirsch) and "Talisman" Air could get away with wailing cats on the rest of the tracks. Thankfully they didnt, instead producing other fabulous pieces such as "Ce Matin La" and "You Make It Easy". This album was rated in the top 100 in Q magazine, but until it comes in as number 1, this album hasn't been recognised enough. One of those ... Read review

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this album is remarkable for a few reasons, but the main reason is the song "all i need". This song is just such a mellow tune. Its on a par with their all time greatest song, and very likely the greatest song to have come out of frane - "le soleil est pres de moi". Stuff like kelly watch the stars and le femme d'argent will ensure that people will keep going back to it, but i always end up going back to "all i need" The video - directed by ... Read review

Advantages: A great vibe, well-crafted
Disadvantages: Pace can be too slow at times

‘French band.’ That’s what it says on the cover, and, it’s right. This is their first album to be widely available in the UK, including the singles ‘Sexy Boy,’ ‘Kelly Watch The Stars’ and ‘All I Need.’ I actually got this CD for free, after winning it in a competition, and as such it wasn’t quite of the type I would usually buy. However, I was pleasantly surprised. It’s a very chilled album, and good for winding down to. The Air boys have got ... Read review

Advantages: Every Track is an advantage, and you can proabably pick this CD up for a knock down price
Disadvantages: Its not long enough

Air - Moon Safari is a album which reminds me of travelling to rowing in the car of my flatmate - a very chilled and mellow experience appealing to everyone who remembers and loved 'Kelly Watch the Stars'. I am obviously a fan of Air but have not listened to any of there other previous albums, which i am aware there is at least one, so if anyone out there wants to recommend other Air albums - i'm listening! I believe this CD is now available from ... Read review

Advantages: Very easy to listen to, relaxing, almost dreamy
Disadvantages: None!

Air's first album is... very difficult to describe well. The problem is that it's unlike anything you'll probably have heard before. Think French, think 70's, think electronic, think dreamy, other-worldly, and you'll be getting some way there. On first listening, it doesn't amount to much - if anything you just think it's quite clichéd as a French album. And it is; but the band takes the clichés and does something with them to somehow make them sound ... Read review

Advantages: Relaxing, experimental, innovative
Disadvantages: None

This album from the French pair of artists (Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel) is a great chillout CD. Many of the songs have no lyrics are are simply a keyboard and a bass guitar comining to make a jazzy and ambient sound. The songs sound quite experimental and although relaxing are not boring. One of my favorite songs "All I Need" is from this album, the lyrics are in English and sung by Beth Hirsch who has a beautiful voice. The tracks ... Read review

Advantages: Great to chill out to after a long day!
Disadvantages: So laid back you may forget its on!

...post-rock/rave days. So six years on, Moon Safari by Air still sums up everything that genre should be about. We get glorious, soft vocals, seas of keyboards and heart-beat bass lines to float us away. Its the musical equivilent of a good pair of slippers, a cup of horlicks and a purring cat. There is a dance element there. DJs were queuing up to mix - Sexy Boy. But everything is soothed by the flowing vocals of Blur's mate Francoise Hardy, succulent ... Read review

Advantages: something you will keep coming back to
Disadvantages: not for all tastes

Air's moon safari is one of those albums that I had heard was good but which i held off buying until last year, due to the fact that it is not the genre of music i am in to. I bought it in the end as it was on special offer, and it is one of those albums that I keep coming back to and putting on. For me, the standout tracks are the first 3 on the album. Sexy Boy is probably their best known song due to its release as a single, but just as good ... Read review