Pocket Symphony
2007 studio album by Air / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pocket Symphony is the fourth studio album by French electronic music duo Air, released on 5 March 2007 by Virgin Records. It features collaborations with Jarvis Cocker and Neil Hannon.[12] Pocket Symphony incorporates some of the Japanese instruments Godin had 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.[13] The album features art by Xavier Veilhan.
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Released | 5 March 2007 (2007-03-05) | |||
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Length | 47:47 | |||
Label | Virgin | |||
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 63/100[1] |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
The A.V. Club | A−[3] |
Entertainment Weekly | C+[4] |
The Guardian | [5] |
The Irish Times | [6] |
Mojo | [7] |
NME | 2/10[8] |
Pitchfork | 6.6/10[9] |
Spin | [10] |
Uncut | [11] |
Pocket Symphony debuted at number 40 on the US Billboard 200, with 17,000 copies sold in its first week.[14] As of February 2012, it had sold 77,000 copies in the United States.[15]
The term "pocket symphony" was popularised by English journalist Derek Taylor, who used it to describe the Beach Boys' 1966 single "Good Vibrations".