Air - Pocket Symphony
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Album Review
Release date: 05 March 2007
Air: Pocket Symphony
Dead Air makes people stop listening
Air wafted into the public consciousness in a whiff of smoky Gauloises, French glam and hazy late-’90s ‘Paris is the new black’ atmosphere. However, come 2007 that whiff feels desperately stale. With their sonic palette widened ever so slightly from soft, plinky-plonky music to soft plink-plonky coma music, ‘Pocket Symphony’ sure does drift over you like a duvet of mood-stabilising...
- Mar 2, 2007
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- Space Maker
- Once Upon a Time
- One Hell Of A Party (Feat. Jarvis Cocker)
- Napalm Love
- Mayfair Song
- Left Bank
- Photograph
- Mer du Japon
- Lost Message
- Somewhere Between Waking And Sleeping (Feat.N Hannon)
- Redhead Girl
- Night Sight
- The Duelist (Feat.Jarvis Cocker & Charlotte Gainsbourg)
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Air - Pocket Symphony: Wikipedia Album Entry
Pocket Symphony is the fifth full-length album by French duo Air. The album was released in March 2007 and features collaborations with Jarvis Cocker and Neil Hannon. Pocket Symphony also incorporates some of the Japanese instruments Godin recently learned to play from an Okinawan master musician: the koto (also referred to as a Japanese floor harp) and the three-string, banjo-like shamisen. However, a press release claims that "conventional instruments continue to play a great role" in the duo's music. The album features art by Xavier Veilhan.
The first single from this album, "Once Upon a Time", can be heard on the group's MySpace page.
Pocket Symphony debuted on the U.S. Billboard 200 at number 40, with about 17,000 copies sold in its first week.
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Air - Pocket Symphony Lyrics
Air - Redhead Girl Lyrics
When the redhead girl goes by
The course of time stands still
When the redhead girl goes by
Goes by
Air - Somewhere Between Walking and Sleeping Lyrics
Without blindness, there is no sight
You'd see further if you'd only close your eyes
In unconsciousness, I can find peace
Inside prison walls, I can find release
Air - Mer du Japon Lyrics
J'en perds la raison
(I lost my mind)
Dans la mer du Japon
(in the sea of Japan)
Air - Photograph Lyrics
I would like to own your autograph
The angels cry to have your photograph
As if you were awfully made for life
Air - Left Bank Lyrics
Left Bank
Left bank, I'm waiting for someone
Someone to be my friend
Air - Napalm Love Lyrics
I'm falling in love
I'm falling down, falling down
Down on the ground
I'm falling in love
Air - Hell of a Party Lyrics
Please do not follow where I am leading
Someone must clear these things away
Here in the burnt out husk of the morning
Strung out with nothing left to say
Air - Once Upon A Time Lyrics
No time before it's too soon
No time after it's too late
Time's getting old, time's over now
Don't try to be on time
