Talkie Walkie
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January 2004 |
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| Label (s) | Virgin Records | ||||||
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CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
43 min 27 s |
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Air, Nigel Godrich |
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Talkie Walkie is a studio album by the French band Air . It was released in January 2004.
Track list
- Venus - 4:04
- Cherry Blossom Girl - 3:39
- Run - 4:12
- Universal Traveler - 4:22
- Mike Mills (named after the director of the same name ) - 4:26
- Surfing on a Rocket - 3:43
- Another Day - 3:20
- Alpha Beta Gaga - 4:39
- Biological - 6:04
- Alone in Kyoto - 4:51
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background
The album title Talkie Walkie is the French name for a handheld radio (English Walkie Talkie ). At the same time, the title is probably inspired by the song Le Talkie Walkie by Serge Gainsbourg .
Nigel Godrich worked as a producer , among other things known for his long-term collaboration with the English band Radiohead . It was the second collaboration after Godrich had produced the album City Reading (Tre Storie Western) , a spoken word project by Air with author Alessandro Baricco in 2003.
The title Alone in Kyoto is in the movie Lost in Translation by Sofia Coppola used.
The album cover shows the two band members Dunckel and Godin in half profile. Handwritten, mathematical formulas ( differential equations ) can be seen in the background - a reference to Dunckel's field of study in the time before the band was founded.
The album reached the top 10 in many European album charts. In Ireland it was number 1 for two weeks . The song Cherry Blossom Girl made it as the only single from Air in the German single charts (number 80).
reception
The album received mostly positive reviews. Proof of this is a Metascore of 75%, determined from 29 professional reviews.
For example, the album received four out of five points from Allmusic , laut.de and the Guardian and 8.3 out of 10 from Pitchfork Media .
Stylistically, it is described as a middle ground between the lightness of their highly acclaimed debut Moon Safari and the sonically much darker follow-up album 10.000 Hz Legend :
"So of course we expect" Talkie Walkie "with impatience, because it is actually only the third 'real' album [...], and one can actually be excited. Will it be flaky again or even darker or how ... well, it is: in between. [...] "Talkie Walkie" is by no means a lazy compromise, but a successful combination of different aggregate states of Air. Nothing really new, certainly, but at the usual high level. And that has to be enough, after all, you can't keep reinventing space travel! "