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DARKEL - Darkel
| Times Online | | The first solo effort by Jean- Benoît Dunckel — half of the French mood-setters, Air — contains some undeniable pleasures. The single At the End of the Sky boasts slide-guitar fills that George Harrison would have been proud of. Earth brilliantly marries the reggae gods Sly and Robbie to the Star Trek theme, while My Own Sun starts like John Lennon and finishes on Mars. Sadly, Dunckel still sings like a consumptive poet on his deathbed....full text |
| | Crud Magazine | | I only ask that there was at least one electronica record out there that didn’t make me feel like I was in an episode of Tomorrow’s World or locked inside a great-glass elevator with only Joe Meek, Buzz Lightyear and R2D2 for company. Not that I’m averse to a bit of the old Telstar Satellites any, just that the space-race is better suited to the likes of NASA than it is to two-thirds of the record producing public, who may have much in the way of beeps and buzzes and intergalactic whirry noises but little in the way of your common or garden rocket-science. And Air’s JB Dunckel is no exception....full text |
| | StylusMagazine | | I wish this had worked out. With a new Air record supposedly due on Astralwerks early next year, I’d love to fall back on threadbare critical clichés about how JB Dunckel’s solo debut as Darkel is at least good enough to “tide you over.” Unfortunately, Dunckel refuses to abide by such a formulaic fan-tease. Darkel is instead just a sugar-fueled snack you give in to around four in the afternoon and forget by quarter after: falsely filling, well-packaged, and ultimately just more plump for your Diesels....full text |
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