Moon Safari

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This article is about the Air album. For the band of the same name, see Moon Safari (band).
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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
Entertainment WeeklyA−[4]
Muzik10/10[5]
NME8/10[6]
Pitchfork Media7.9/10[7]
Rolling Stone[8]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[9]
Spin7/10[10]
The Village VoiceA−[11]

Moon Safari is the debut studio album by French electronic music duo Air, released on 16 January 1998. On 14 April 2008, Virgin Records re-released Moon Safari to mark the album's tenth anniversary. The limited edition album came with a bound book, a DVD documentary about the duo, and an extra CD with live performances and remixes. The record received universal acclaim. It was voted as the best album of the year in The Face and in Select. It featured in Top Ten lists for magazines like Spin, Melody Maker, NME and Mojo. Rolling Stone magazine later ranked the album at number 93 on their list of the best albums of the 1990s,[12] while the magazine's French edition ranked it at number 65 on their "100 Greatest French Rock Albums" list.[13] Moon Safari set the stage for the budding downtempo music style and, according to Nielsen SoundScan, had sold 364,000 copies by 2009.

Track listing

Original release

All tracks are written by Air, except where noted

No.TitleWriter(s)English translationLength
1."La femme d'argent" The Silver Woman/The Money Girl7:10
2."Sexy Boy"  4:57
3."All I Need"lyrics by Beth Hirsch 4:28
4."Kelly Watch the Stars"  3:44
5."Talisman"  4:16
6."Remember"co-written with Jean-Jacques Perrey 2:34
7."You Make It Easy"lyrics by Hirsch 4:00
8."Ce matin là"co-written with Patrick WoodcockThat Morning3:38
9."New Star in the Sky (Chanson pour Solal)" Song for Solal5:38
10."Le voyage de Pénélope" Penelope's Voyage3:10
Notes

10th anniversary rerelease (2008)

Bonus Disc[14]
No.TitleEnglish translationLength
1."Remember" (David Whitaker Version) 2:25
2."Kelly Watch the Stars" (Live on the BBC, 1998) 2:44
3."J'ai dormi sous l'eau" (Live on the BBC, 1998)I Slept Under Water4:10
4."Sexy Boy" (Live on the BBC, 1998) 3:10
5."Kelly, Watch the Stars" (The Moog Cookbook Remix) 5:40
6."Trente millions d'amis" (Live on KCRW radio, 1998)Thirty Million Friends4:34
7."You Make It Easy" (Live on KCRW, 1998) 4:45
8."Bossa 96" (Demo) 4:44
9."Kelly, Watch the Stars" (Demo) 3:46
10."Sexy Boy" (Beck "Sex Kino Mix") 6:36
DVD
  • "Eating Sleeping Waiting & Playing" by Mike Mills.
  • Music videos for "Sexy Boy", "Kelly Watch the Stars", "All I Need", and "Le soleil est près de moi" (from the Premiers Symptômes EP).
  • Graphics and storyboards.

Personnel

  • Jean-Benoît Dunckel – keyboards, synths, organ, vocals, piano, pan pipes, hand claps, glockenspiel
  • Nicolas Godin – bass, synths, percussion, vocals, guitar, hand claps, harmonica, glockenspiel, piano, organ, pan pipes, drums
  • Beth Hirsch – vocals
  • Enfants square Burcq – vocals
  • Alf (a.k.a. Stephane Briat) – hand claps
  • Caroline L. – hand claps
  • Marlon – drums
  • Eric Regert – organ
  • David Whitaker – string arrangement, conducting
  • P. Woodcock – guitar, trombone

Charts

References

  1. ^ Beaumont, Michael (20 October 2003). "Bent: The Everlasting Blink". PopMatters. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
  2. ^ Bush, John. "Moon Safari – Air". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-857-12595-8.
  4. ^ Smith, Ethan (6 February 1998). "Moon Safari". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
  5. ^ Tope, Frank (January 1998). "Air: Moon Safari (Virgin)". Muzik (32): 73.
  6. ^ Mulvey, John (17 January 1998). "Air: Moon Safari / Kid Loco: A Grand Love Story". NME: 38. Archived from the original on 17 August 2000. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
  7. ^ DiCrescenzo, Brent. "Air: Moon Safari". Pitchfork Media. Archived from the original on 20 November 2002. Retrieved 1 November 2009. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 20 October 2002 suggested (help)
  8. ^ Sheffield, Rob (7 January 1998). "Air: Moon Safari". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 30 January 2009. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
  9. ^ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. pp. 10–11. ISBN 0-743-20169-8.
  10. ^ Salamon, Jeff (February 1998). "Bugs: Infinite Syndrome / Air: Moon Safari". Spin. 14 (2): 108. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  11. ^ Christgau, Robert (23 February 1999). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  12. ^ "Air, 'Moon Safari' – 100 Best Albums of the Nineties". Rolling Stone. 27 April 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  13. ^ Magazine Rolling Stone, n°18 of February 2010, ISSN 1764-1071
  14. ^ Moon Safari at Discogs
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