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The Virgin Suicides
03/09/2000 7:42 PM, Yahoo! Music
Chris Morris
Electro-Frenchies Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin have enlisted
some fans with their work on Moon Safari and Premiers Symptomes ,
which featured a pixillated old-school feel, a la Tonto's Expanding Head Band or Isao Tomita. But I'm afraid this work -- the soundtrack for
a new film directed by Francis Ford Coppola's daughter Sofia (remember
her in Godfather III?) -- is a taste too old school.
The group's
current bio calls up the specter of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon
to describe the music on The Virgin Suicides, and the comparison is all
too precise: There are moments when you expect the duo to break right
into "The Great Gig in the Sky." This is unimaginative prog-rock mood
work, probably just fine as movie-music cannon fodder, but singularly
without ambition as a stand-alone piece. For big fans only.
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