“The French musician’s solo album is full of blissed-out vocoder ballads that would have slotted effortlessly onto his duo Air’s Moon Safari.”
“It’s hard to credit now how revolutionary Air’s first album, Moon Safari, sounded in 1998 – a soufflé of a record so light and fluffy it was irresistible. Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel had the same retro-futurist bent as Broadcast, but they also had a sweet tooth for bubblegum to go with their gauzy electronica. The range of musical reference has broadened since then, but Concrete and Glas”
“Nicolas Godin needs little in the way of introduction. As one half of seminal electronic duo Air, he has spent most of the last two decades as a dreamy, downtempo reference. In 2015 Godin made his solo debut with the Bach-inspired Contrepoint, throwing himself into a technical challenge to reimagine the work of the classical composer in a contemporary way. If that project was a stylistically bold ”
