Talkie Walkie

Talkie Walkie
Studio album by Air
Released 21 January 2004 (2004-01-21)
Recorded 2003
Genre Ambient pop, electronic music
Length 43:27
Label Virgin
Producer Air, Nigel Godrich
Air chronology
10 000 Hz Legend
(2001)		 Talkie Walkie
(2004)		 Pocket Symphony
(2007)

Talkie Walkie is the third full-length album by French music duo Air, released on 27 January 2004. "Alone in Kyoto" was included on the soundtrack to the 2003 film Lost in Translation and "Run" was used in the Veronica Mars episode "Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner", as well as the 2004 French film Lila Says. "Talkie-walkie" means walkie-talkie in French.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic75/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Entertainment WeeklyA−[3]
The Guardian[4]
Los Angeles Times[5]
NME8/10[6]
Pitchfork Media8.3/10[7]
Q[8]
Rolling Stone[9]
SpinB[10]
Uncut[11]

Talkie Walkie received highly favourable reviews from critics. Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone called the album "excellent" and commented that Air "return to what they do best: elegantly moody soundtrack music for imaginary films."[9] NME reviewer Piers Martin commented, "It is light and fluffy, of course, but tender and romantic, synthetic and soulful, too. It sounds, effortlessly, new and different, fresh and focused, clean and Zen, no doubt the outcome of Godin and Dunckel's decision to play and programme all the instruments and perform all the vocals on the record themselves in Paris without any external assistance...". Praise was given to the subtle touch producer Nigel Godrich and string arranger Michel Colombier presumably brought to the album at its final stage,[6] and the more personal and tighter song writing.

Pitchfork Media named Talkie Walkie the twentieth best album of 2004,[12] and they placed it at number 191 on its list of top 200 albums of the 2000s.[13]

Track listing

All tracks written by Air. 

No. Title Length
1. "Venus"   4:04
2. "Cherry Blossom Girl"   3:39
3. "Run"   4:12
4. "Universal Traveler"   4:22
5. "Mike Mills" (named after music video director Mike Mills) 4:26
6. "Surfing on a Rocket"   3:43
7. "Another Day"   3:20
8. "Alpha Beta Gaga"   4:39
9. "Biological"   6:04
10. "Alone in Kyoto"   4:51
11. "Easy Going Woman" (bonus track for Japan) 4:34

Singles and EPs

Charts

References

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  2. ↑ Bush, John. "Talkie Walkie – Air". AllMusic. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  3. ↑ Endelman, Michael (23 January 2004). "Talkie Walkie". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  4. ↑ Petridis, Alexis (16 January 2004). "Air, Talkie Walkie". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  5. ↑ Kuipers, Dean (29 February 2004). "Shimmer that dissipates fast". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  6. 1 2 Martin, Piers. "Air : Talkie Walkie". NME. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  7. ↑ DiCrescenzo, Brent (25 January 2004). "Air: Talkie Walkie". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  8. ↑ "Air: Talkie Walkie". Q (211): 99. February 2004.
  9. 1 2 Sheffield, Rob (5 February 2004). "Air: Talkie Walkie". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 26 May 2007. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  10. ↑ Matos, Michaelangelo (January 2004). "Air, Talkie Walkie (Astralwerks)". Spin. 20 (1): 102. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  11. ↑ "Air: Talkie Walkie". Uncut (81): 69. February 2004.
  12. ↑ "Top 50 Albums of 2004: 20–11". Pitchfork Media. 31 December 2004. Retrieved 1 October 2009.
  13. ↑ "The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s: 200–151". Pitchfork Media. 28 September 2009. Retrieved 1 October 2009.
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  26. ↑ エールのアルバム売り上げランキング [Air album sales ranking] (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
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  32. ↑ "Air – Talkie Walkie". Official Charts Company. Chart Stats. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  33. 1 2 "Talkie Walkie – Air". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  34. ↑ "2005 Certification Awards – Gold". Irish Recorded Music Association. irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
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  36. ↑ "Jaaroverzichten 2004" (in Dutch). Ultratop. Hung Medien. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  37. ↑ "Classement Albums – année 2004" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  38. ↑ "2004 Year End Charts – Top Electronic Albums". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 25 December 2004. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
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