Reviews
Ranked #23 in Nme's "Top 50 Albums of the Year"., 3 stars out of 5 - "...Good....mood music and sounds like one of the best things you'll hear all year...", "...An unusually evocative album that simultaneously looks to the future and the past....deliberately echoes the sounds of the late '60s - namely the United States Of America and John Barry...", 5 out of 5 - "...Should appeal to electronica fans, indie rockers and everyone in between. NOISE is a fantastic debut...", "...Plunders the rock musical heritage of TV and film themes that fed off the '60s pop explosion....transforming them into something strangely modern.", "...Oddly infectious. Imagine the Bronte sisters trying to play Yo La Tengo music on Air's instruments with Joe Meek producing.", 8 out of 10 - "...Feathery, undulating songs which have the balm of Burt Bacharach about them - the 7-layer-parfait chords, the comfort with un-rockish meters....they don't want to obliterate your defenses, just slip through the cracks.", 8 out of 10 - "...an album so autonomous and remote it sounds like it's being beamed from a deep-space probe....for all its detached self-sufficiency, this is a warm, mysterious and very human record..."
