The Air France thread

Matt, you'd love this.

Snowballing you must be me, I did the exact same thing you did and fel the exact same way!

Just chiming in to say this is also my favorite release of the year and is helping with my endless Avalanches withdrawal.

Yeah I really like this, maybe not as much as everything it reminds me of, which is a lot of things, but it's lovely nonetheless. Love how it sounds like the wisps of loads of different things drifting in and out - Xtal and Saint Etienne and Studio yeah, is it too 'lol old ILM' to say something in there reminds me of Disco Inferno as well?

Hey Jibe, isn't it great to be us ?!!
Treblekicker, thanks for mentioning the Taken by Trees remix. I didn't know it existed, and it is lovely.

wow this is fantastic!!!

"collapsing at your doorstep" reminds me a lot of "nyc smile on me" by aqua regia

all the songs are good but rly maundy thursday does owne the others

I like them at their most fizzy - "No Excuses" followed by "Collapsing At Your Doorstep".

yuh i guess maundy thursday is pretty melodramatic tho

grrr. i think i have lost my collapsing .. promo ..

FUCK

what is your problem

MUSIC TOO PERFECT

EQUALLY STUPENDOUS ON HEADPHONES OR LARGE THUMPING SYSTEM

i've probably said this already, but this album is bangtime favorite

EP, i mean. therefore too short.

I love that on their last.fm page they're described as "the logical conclusion of all beach safari situations." It's true!

― living wage for the working dead (Roz), Thursday, October 2, 2008 12:47 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

^^^^not anymore. :( now they've got the standard promo bio boooo.

finally got round to this and am not feeling it at all...too twee :(

the first few are too slight to impinge but 'no excuses' has made me turn it off before the end.

lex, i hope you'll give it another fair shot, cos i'd hate for anyone to miss out on enjoying this. and "no excuses" is my favorite!

Pretty good. Seems like there's a lot of this type of music coming out lately... this, Honeydrips, etc.

i was hoping it'd be more cosmic and balearic but i should've noted spencer's avalanches comparison upthread

lex check out the 1st EP -- "beach party" is awesome

Strings on 'No Excuses' reminded me A LOT of 'Tinseltown in the Rain'.

It's sort of that meets the Field.

yeah, this isn't too bad for a bunch of ruff sqwad instrumentals.

i haven't been able to track down the first EP. grady is there any way you could post it so i could sample before buying?

xp lolz @ random floaty bumboclaats and bounty killer's "yeah yeah" though.

lex, i hope you'll give it another fair shot, cos i'd hate for anyone to miss out on enjoying this. and "no excuses" is my favorite!

― k3vin k., Friday, November 28, 2008 5:49 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

who the fuck cares if lex misses out on this

fuckin kevin keller

Digging this

As far as twee sounding shit goes, I'd like to see the kittens and sunny days side of twee go away for a while ... I want some mopey unrequited love, waterfront in the autumn kind-of indie pop. Everyone's entirely too happy.

Haha, I agree, Burt.

i listened to it for the first time in a while on a road trip this weekend and it holds up so well.. still my fave release of the year, i guess!

first EP.. very very awesome.

i think the girl on the cover is one dude from Tough Alliance's girlfriend.

oh burt_stanton how i love thee

I picked up the second EP on a whim when I was in Stockholm in August, without having heard any of it, and have to share the general love. One of the best things i brought home with me, and one of my favourites of the year. The assistant in the shop also recommended "Yearbook One" by Studio, have been enjoying that too. And the Familjen album.

sanfrandisco email me gr8080 @ gmail

I'm still not quite feeling the rapturous love other people are feeling for it, but I like it more if I treat it as ambient rather than as pop, there's a big hole in the middle otherwise. The Field is the best comparison anyone's made on this thread, but it's better than The Field due to to being unconnected to house music. My problem with the Field was feeling they should be easier to dance to, I don't get that here.

Air France don't really feel Balearic to me, the sound is too monochrome for that, it's more city wistfulness on a grey day than anything else. Despite what I said in the previous paragraph, the music this evokes in me, more than anything is Michael Mayer in Amanda/Lovefood mode. That sort of swirling together of evocative sounds, breathy female vocals, the poignancy of going through a major transport hub, on a rainy weekday, when you're heading home after staying out all night.

(I'm specifically referring to On Trade Winds there, the first EP is much more colourful).

Argh I mean No Way Down, not On Trade Winds.

This sounds like that synthie indie pop from the late 80s early 90s ... and this music happens to be ... synthie indie pop. Case closed.

Who knows how the hell the Field even got into this discussion. Saint Etienne anyone?

i don't know about The Field, either, but when i met Joel ('Yole') from AF he literally said, 'St. Etienne are seriously the best band ever.'

totally surprising

yeah, Tiger Bay was the first thing that sprang to mind when I listened to this

I like to think that Air France and The Tough Alliance split the first three Saint Etienne albums between them, with Air France taking "London Belongs To Me", "Avenue", "Railway Jam" and "On The Shore" and The Tough Alliance taking "He's On The Phone", "Only Love Can Break Your Heart", "Pale Movie" and "Join Our Club".

Finally found The Boat Club's Caught The Breeze album. Magical! They must be the smoothest of these Swedes. Recorded on their Moping Yacht at Dusk.

mini-album, that is.

when are we going to get a proper album from these gents ?

i do enjoy a well-rounded ep though, especially with mopey-twee stuff. i certainly don't remember the field mice because of their full length, yknow?

after two lackluster years finally it's this right type of summer again. still hot and humid after 11pm, every window open to let the cool air in, blasting air france onto the dark streets.

good thing neither trade winds nor no way down or even the other stuff wears off in the slightest.

It seems to have circulated a bit, but I was unaware of this until yesterday, so maybe of interest to anyone... Quite nice.

Yumi Zouma – It Feels Good To Be Around You (ft. Air France)
http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/new-music/song-of-the-day/yumi-zouma-it-feels-good-to-be-around-you-148591

i miss them so much. "it feels good to be around you" was massively underrated upon release -- i think it got some flack for sounding a bit 'chillwave' but i know no other recordings quite like it. i'm glad they fretted over the mix so intensively because the end result is a masterpiece.

it's sad and even a bit crass to say, but i kind of feel like if it had gotten BNT that might've been all the encouragement they needed to give the album another push.

"meet me at the pier" and "please don't die" were never confirmed to be legit air france, were they? definitely inspired by, but to my ears it really lacks air france's touch.

lastly: does anyone know a better EP than no way down? by anyone? i'm not sure i know one. maybe windowlicker comes close, or (contentious choice) sebastiAn's ross ross ross...

Man I haven't thought about that band in years but they had an EP that I really loved in college

also oh man I was so so so so hard into Ross Ross Ross when it came out!! Another one I have not thought about in yeeaaaaars

yeah, that kind of dance music is very demode now, but i still thnk it holds up as a piece of work. the structural logic and execution of "ross" is insane, and "head/off" is even more exquisite. version of "walkman" on the EP is also stellar though not quite on the same level.

would still choose no way down over it, though.

New album by Southern Shores out on Sept 2nd
https://southernshores.bandcamp.com/album/loja
Two songs already released, on first listen sub-Atlantic EP, but ok. You take what you can get nowadays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMMJ6d4DmrA

new Southern Shores album is *almost* excellent, there are a few moments where it slows down leaning into cliche "downtempo" boom-bap beats and it doesn't quite land, but the first half is so blatantly Air France that I cannot resist it