Recommended Gem: The Story Behind Every Song On Air’s Moon Safari by Larry Fitzmaurice for Stereogum (Writing)

 

A recommended gem of an article.  

 

 

 

I love this album so much, although almost every time I play it I usually just end up listening to the opener, “La femme d’argent,” on loop, mostly due to the fact that it’s one of the greatest album openers of all known time.

 

 

And thanks to Larry Fitzmaurice and the good and tirelessly hard-working people of Stereogum, I now have the following crucial, relevant, and life-improving insight from one half of Air, Jean-Benoit Dunckel himself, who says of said opener:

 

 

“I think about the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

 

 

The first track, it’s like an anthem — a declaration of what the album is about.

 

 

You have the main theme at the beginning, and it comes back at the end.

 

 

It gives it a concept album feeling, and “La femme d’argent” is a statement.

 

 

It starts softly

 

and

 

brings you into

 

a

 

 

soft

 

 

fire.”

 

 

How beautifully put. As eloquent as the track itself. 

 

 

💎    

 

 

Read it here (and listen to Moon Safari here).

 

 

(Oh and definitely check out Sampha‘s cover of “All I Need” here.)