A Modern Classic ****1/2

The Trinity of 1990's trip-hop goes as follows: Massive Attack's "Blue Lines," Portishead's "Dummy," and Air's "Moon Safari." Period. The first two have dated, albeit slightly, but "Moon Safari" still makes us yearn for a better yesterday, a simpler time, a right/wrong kind of people. Behold, the glory of the last decade!



The dinner-party-ness of "La Femme D'Argent" is still reason enough to buy this album; all wind, trinkling keyboards, and staircase bass. Genre classics "Sexy Boy" and "All I Need" feature the stereotypical breathy female vocals over a drum machine, but Air's instrumental talent set them apart from most other 90's trip hop bands, giving the singles range. All 10 songs feature great song-craft, innimitable style and mood, and something that should've never been absent from trip-hop or 90's music in general - joy. One of those few musical contradictions; joyful and cutting-edge. This album still amazes its listeners. The perfect trip hop album.



Overall: 9 out of 10.

An album you can describe with the words "a perfect album"

First of all, how can one say that a cracker of a song called "All I Need" reminds him of Zero 7, when it is clear and obvious that the whole landscape and sounds of Zero 7 are totally Air-rip-offs. "When It Falls" can be dsecribed as being a class-b(or perhaps c or d)-version of "Moon Safari".



Anyway, about the album itself. It starts with the classic "La Femme d'Argent", which with it's groovy bassline and great droppy organs creates simultaniously a cool and pleasantly dangerous atmosphere. Second track "Sexy Boy", is a great tune and manages also to be hilarious at the same time. "All I Need" offers a welcome break with the excellent Beth Hirsch at vocals. The album continues solidly throughout, bar one slight nudge - "Remember", which would have been better without the vocoder bits in the beginning. Highlights of the album are the aforementioned accompanied with the likes of "Talisman" - same as "La Femme d'Argent, supercool and invitingly dangerous, "You Make It Easy" - which will definitely be played at my wedding!, "Ce Matin La" - the song makes you feel like there's nothing wrong in the world, everything is simple etc. Superb tuba and harmonica.



My own favourite from the album has to be "Ce Matin La", which sort of crystallizes the whole album - excellent atmosphere, songcraft and even very stylish covers!

the greatest album from AIR

This album is AWESOME! You just must get a copy, you have to experience by yourself, words can't describe the beautiness and quality on each song played, the songs "you make it easy", "all I need" are totally beauty with the smooth and sensual voice of Beth Hirsh, there are no complexity on the lyrics, but just hearing her voice makes you traveling among clouds and that'll be enough to fall in love with these songs. The other songs are just an excellent pieces of retro-electro-acoustic music.



that's why AIR has become one of my favorites electronic downtempo groups, the refreshing music makes me very comfortable, relaxing, getting in good mood wherever i go...at work, traffic jam, at home...



This one is a must for a lover of this kind of electronic genre