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Feb 7, 2012This is a treat not just for Air fans, but aficionados of film music and science fiction, too.
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Alternative PressFeb 3, 2012This 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, 2012La 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 9, 2012As 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 7, 2012The three songs with lyrics are too on-the-nose, but the instrumentals capture glitchy, orchestrated foreboding well.
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Feb 15, 2012Listened to while watching Georges Méliès suitably trippy sci-fi spectacle, it makes for a brief, but enchanting, experience.
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Mar 2, 2012An appropriate sonic companion so ethereal, any selenographer worth his weight in space could essentially disappear inside of it.
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Feb 3, 2012Despite 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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Mar 5, 2012Ultimately, 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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Entertainment WeeklyFeb 13, 2012Their 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 10, 2012Suitably 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 6, 2012Le 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, 2012Most 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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MojoFeb 27, 2012Le 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 8, 2012The 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 6, 2012It'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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Feb 7, 2012Le Voyage is, given its origins, a small wonder all on its own.
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Feb 8, 2012A solid, listenable, blue-collar rap album.
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Mar 7, 2012Nearly 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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Q MagazineFeb 21, 2012Unlikely to return them to chart orbit. [Mar 2012, p. 97]
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Feb 22, 2012tween 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 15, 2012Lovingly fastidious and packed with special effects.
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Feb 6, 2012It'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 7, 2012Le 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, 2012Live 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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Feb 10, 2012There are moments of weightlessness and beauty here.
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Feb 2, 2012It's a niche listen. But [...] it can be a charming one, too.
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Feb 2, 2012Pleasingly, it's all comically cosmic, as befits the host movie.
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Feb 6, 2012It is, as you'd expect, spacious, gentle, reachy, euphonious and, for Air, fairly organic sounding.
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Feb 14, 2012Air'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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Mar 5, 2012Ingenious in its conception as a soundtrack, weak and tedious as a standalone musical venture, an interminable experience despite its brevity.
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UncutFeb 3, 2012Air seem to have found little fresh inspiration in his bricolage. [Mar 2012, p.79]
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Feb 7, 2012Knowledge 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 7, 2012
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Dec 26, 2021A Highly Impressive Short Film Despite the many limitations of a hundred years ago, it was a beautiful, creative, and compact film.
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Oct 28, 2012