AIR "Surfing On A Rocket"
single released by Virgin: April 19, 2004
This has been on almost permanent rotation in the car for the last two weeks. Dunno about you, but after the "10000hz Legend" disaster, I wasn't expecting much from Air again. But "Talkie Walkie" was a return to the form that made "Moon Safari" an enduring classic... but this single from that album passed me by at the time. It was only recently on compiling a "Best Of" for the car that I picked up on it.
It contains one of the most gorgeous guitar lines ever (ahh, those minor keys), breathy French vocals (not female but the lads themselves), bizarre lyrics about surfing bombs, some great keyboard noodling in the middle and a sudden ending (always a winner). Nigel (Radiohead) Godrich's production is superb, giving a focus to the song that sometimes the band's own production lacks. It's a chill out track that deserves to be played LOUD.
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