The Sexy Boys return with a Pocket Symphony as opposed to pocket billiards [phnarr pnarr]. They always turn up at this time of year don't they? Missed them at the get go as 1. nothing good comes out at the start of the new year 2. nothing good musically comes out of France 3. nothing good comes from considering the views of critics. But then along came Sexy Boy etc etc. Nicolas Godin et Jean-Benoît Dunkel I guess kicked off the whole dreamie trippe hoppe thynge - n'est pas? Zero7, Lemon Jelly et al followed.It's business as usual here for Air but then when you've a business as good as this why change anything. We do get some new vocalists, Jarvis Cocker and Neil Hannon can do that dreamy Air thing very well. In fact Hannon sounds so like Jose Gonzalez [that's the guy bigCol] only better and not like Neil Hannon at all, maybe, as Divine Comedy has been a bit lacklustre of late, he's decided to earn a bit on the side as vox for hire.
Not released til March so I can't link to a sales site yet, but maybe Ken Wood will blow us a mmMpeethreefile. If he does you'll hear 320kbps that's virtually ceedee qualitee. I wouldn't say Nigel Goodrich has added anything that gr8 production-wise to this album but aparently Air have been spending time learning how to play classical Japanese instruments [now here's a man who's read the press release] well worth a download.
I'' recommend sour cream, chopped chive & dill, blinis, homecured gravadlax and a nice flinty white Burgundy - lightly chilled of course ;-)
