Musique Concrète
“Sexy Boy was a big single but if you listen to it, it doesn’t sound very commercial. It’s not very fast and it’s kind of creepy as well.”
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture,” said Frank Zappa, or Elvis Costello, or possibly Martin Mull. At the risk of deconstructing that quip and taking all of the joy out of it, it’s survived for 40 years or more despite its disputed provenance because of the absurdity of the image. Dancing and architecture are set up as a juxtaposition with one regarded as frivolous, freeform and fun: the other rigid, angular and very serious.
Nicolas Godin, the unshaven one from French downtempo giants Air, may turn this idea on its head with his new album, . It’s a record that started out being about
