Zero 7 / Simple Things – CD (Used)

Author: Zero 7

Features:

• Simple Things by Zero 7

Release Date: 13-11-2001

Details: Amazon.ca Zero 7’s ability to conjure beautiful lullabies with all the romance of 1960s French pop (as found on their debut LP, Simple Things) would have made them the toast of soundtrack composers and chill-out connoisseurs the world over. Unfortunately, two Frenchmen beat Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker to the title of “masters of comedown cool,” leaving the London duo to be forever called “the British Air.” And this is fair; the similarities between Zero 7’s lush cinematic soundscapes and those of Air’s Moon Safari and the Virgin Suicides score are so strong as to sound almost intentional. Nonetheless, their debut is a truly gorgeous album. It has all the tried and tested atmospheric tricks–bleeps and whooshes layered over plodding Fender Rhodes chords, swathes of strings and tender trumpet parps–but