Chimpomatic

New Air, following their template of breathy vocals singing things like "the angels cry to see your photograph" over dirt-free production from Nigel Godrich.

Another one of those albums that's ok, but nowhere near as good as Moon Safari - it's like they could really do w having someone take away all the studio toys and make them put it back together in a bedroom or something - the ambient slickness veers far too closely to dinner party muzak than the elegant pop they first gave us. They've lost the freshness that made tracks like All I Need (and the even better Super Discount remix Soldissimo) so great.

Jarvis Cocker's on One Hell Of A Party (he lives in Paris now, they must have bumped into him at the local boulangerie), and just to really bring the whole thing down a few stars, the Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon shows up as well.

All a bit Jean Michel J'air, really.