Essential New Music: Air’s “Twentyears” And Cornelius’ “Fantasma”

Japan’s Keigo Oyamada and the French duo of Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin may have lived in different parts of the globe, but 20 years ago, Cornelius and Air, respectively, crafted individually quirky, definitively kitschy brands of ambient space pop with a breathy, retro-disco edge. Though there were softly spun elements of bachelor-pad Bacharach-ania in … Continue reading Essential New Music: Air’s “Twentyears” And Cornelius’ “Fantasma”