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Feb 13, 2012100Their grandiose score will make you glad that this silent film [Melies' 1902 film A Trip to the Moon] isn't silent anymore. [17 Feb 2012, p.72]
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Feb 6, 201291Le Voyage is as thrilling and replete with the unexpected as one might imagine a trip outside the Earth's atmosphere would be.
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Mar 15, 201280Most electronic acts, when asked to sound-track a film, dump pop sensibility in favour of atmospherics, but we're happy to report that, as astute players for over a decade, Air have gone the other way: to the moon and back.
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Mar 5, 201280Ultimately, what you see here is indeed what you get: amour, imagination and rêve from two men who fell to earth...from the dark side of Méliès' moon.
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Feb 15, 201280Lovingly fastidious and packed with special effects.
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Feb 10, 201280There are moments of weightlessness and beauty here.
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Feb 7, 201280This is a treat not just for Air fans, but aficionados of film music and science fiction, too.
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Feb 7, 201280Le Voyage is, given its origins, a small wonder all on its own.
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Feb 7, 201280Knowledge of the film isn't necessary to appreciate the childlike whimsy of these 11 songs, which easily stand as some of Air's most inventive and inviting work to date.
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Feb 6, 201280It is, as you'd expect, spacious, gentle, reachy, euphonious and, for Air, fairly organic sounding.
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Feb 3, 201280This album absolutely stands on its own, never requiring visual accompaniment; for Air fans, it's a vital addition to their catalog. [Mar 2012, p.94]
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Feb 2, 201280La Voyage Dans La Lune is the 'most Air' thing this duo may ever craft, a perfect set with which to remind audiences of their continuing excellence.
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Feb 7, 201275Le Voyage Dans La Lune may not be Air's most innovative or boundary-testing album, but it's one of the band's most playful.
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Feb 2, 201275Live instrumentation and organic jams keep it all from sounding très moderne, and though it touches upon some typical Air tropes (free-floating whispery shimmers, B-movie space sounds gone glitzy) the overall loosey-goosey methodology is refreshing.
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Mar 7, 201270Nearly 20 years into the French duo's career, Le Voyage Dans la Lune is yet even more proof of Air's relevance in the evolution of modern music.
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Mar 2, 201270An appropriate sonic companion so ethereal, any selenographer worth his weight in space could essentially disappear inside of it.
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Feb 15, 201270Listened to while watching Georges Méliès suitably trippy sci-fi spectacle, it makes for a brief, but enchanting, experience.
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Feb 14, 201270Air's music for it [the Méliès film], whether rhythmic or choral, static or episodic, minimalist or anthemic, is slight and smooth as glass.
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Feb 10, 201270Suitably cinematic, percussion-heavy and mostly instrumental, it's enjoyable as a standalone album, but it will be interesting to see how it works alongside the film.
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Feb 9, 201270As a package on its own, Air's Le voyage dans la lune doesn't hit especially hard, but when paired with the historic film, they become a dreamy, fulfilling piece of entertainment and mystery.
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Feb 8, 201270The voyage is not a wholly successful one, due in part to its short length which makes it more lengthy EP than full length album, but there's also an occasional lack of musical focus.
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Feb 7, 201270The three songs with lyrics are too on-the-nose, but the instrumentals capture glitchy, orchestrated foreboding well.
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Feb 6, 201270It's by no means the work of art that it accompanies, but it's almost as endearing and charming as that begrudging look of acceptance on the countenance of the moon at the sight of its unwelcome guests.
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Feb 3, 201270Despite being twice the length of the film it soundtracks the album still clocks it at around 30 minutes and captivates enough with its sense of atmosphere, drama and melodic capabilities to make those 30 minutes fly by like a rocket straight into the moon's eye.
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Feb 27, 201260Le Voyage is best when it sets the controls for the tribal prog of Sonic Armada or the ritual beats of Astronomic Club. [Mar 2012, p.92]
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Feb 22, 201260tween Daft Punk's astronaut gear and Air's analog synth-driven Moon Safari, French electronic musicians have historically shown great nostalgia towards the old space age. Continuing the trend is this soundtrack.
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Feb 2, 201260It's a niche listen. But [...] it can be a charming one, too.
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Feb 2, 201260Pleasingly, it's all comically cosmic, as befits the host movie.
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Feb 8, 201257A solid, listenable, blue-collar rap album.
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Feb 6, 201250It's elegant, but hardly likely to inspire any particularly stirring flights of fancy, or any reevaluations of the band's post-Moon Safari discography.
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Mar 5, 201240Ingenious in its conception as a soundtrack, weak and tedious as a standalone musical venture, an interminable experience despite its brevity.
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Feb 21, 201240Unlikely to return them to chart orbit. [Mar 2012, p. 97]
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Feb 3, 201240Air seem to have found little fresh inspiration in his bricolage. [Mar 2012, p.79]