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Based on the score for Georges Méliès’ groundbreaking 1902 silent film, Air’s latest does play like a soundtrack, hinting back to their Virgin Suicides score.
It hits the French duo’s sweet spots: layered reveries, dreamy intrigue and a generous sense of history, allowing them to sponge up a wide rainbow of influences.
Instrumental opener Astronomic Club is gloomy – even ominous. The following Seven Stars reassures us with Jean-Benoît Dunckel’s familiar vocals, before Beach House’s dusky Victoria Legrand comes in at the end.
Brooklyn trio Au Revoir Simone do a vocal cameo on the vaguely creepy Who Am I Now, but large swaths of the album unfold sans voices. That’s no complaint: Moon Fever seeps with piano-rippled ambience, while standout Sonic Armada dabbles in squeaky cosmic funk.
If there is any complaint, it’s that this rewarding experience finishes with the subtle, anticlimactic Lava. Still, it’s a welcome reminder of Air’s luxurious drift. At its most sublime, Le Voyage Dans La Lune transports us as much as its source material.
- Doug Wallen
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