JEAN MICHEL JARRE
Téo & Téa
Atlantic 2564699766
Three decades after Oxygene, the Gallic son-et-lumiãre knob-twiddler releases a new opus into a market arguably more jaded about technology than ever before and unlikely to get terribly excited by some old roué plugging in his sequencer again and revving up the BPMs for les kids . Sounding like Rick Wakeman collaborating with Faithless, Téo & Téa maxes on cheesy synths and sudden beat explosions, and reminds you how much you hate house music these days. The absolute nadir is Beautiful Agony, which features joyless soft-porn groaning of the type no doubt emitted by a ready-reckoning eastern European as she lies beneath a potbellied billionaire on a Monte Carlo yacht. Classy. One star DC
Uhu, good oneRubberlips wrote:(...) New wife Anne Parillaud supplies orgasmic cries to the cheesy Beautiful Agony with an intensity that suggests Jarre still has a talent for something (...)
You're right.GeeJee wrote:Yeah, I agree... look at Enigma, he uses those kind of sounds much better...
In BA, if you leave out the moans, there's barely anything left...
now THAT is very well said my friend.moviemaker wrote:JARRE need to be a leader, not a follower of trends.