JB Dunckel - Carbon [LP]

Prototyp Recording

£27.52

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: PROTOTYP015LP
Barcode: 3770018072319
Release Date: 24 Jun 2022
Genre: Electronic

JB Dunckel, one half of the French duo Air, has announced a new solo album called Carbon, his follow-up to 2018’s H+. “When you burn it, it doesnʼt go away,” he noted of the titular element.

* LP , 180gr black vinyl , offset paper, metallic pantone, poly lined sleeves, sticker on the cellophane.

Carbon, JB Dunckel’s first album in four years, considers the recent uncertainties that have befallen the planet and explores diffuse visions of how a better future might look.

There are meditations on existential bliss (the airy, chiming Cristal Mind) and egotistical escapist fantasies (Sex UFO, which can’t help but recall Jeff Bezos phallic rocket). Yet Carbon also considers the subversive pleasures of nihilism: revelling in man’s insignificance compared to the cosmos (the languid Space) and wondering whether big tech might save us yet (the triumphalist Corporate Sunset).

The album is a psychological test that reveals the listener’s own outlook, says Dunckel – an artist who taught pop fans how to dream more than 20 years ago as half of the trailblazing cosmic pop duo Air.

Since then, he’s become a lauded, César-nominated composer for films such as François Ozon’s film Summer of 85 . With Carbon, the accompanying images are entirely of the listener’s creation: “I want them to feel ready to travel in space,” he says.

* Tracklist:
1. Spark 04:18 2. Corporate Sunset 05:03 3. Space (feat Heather d’Angelo) 03:57 4. Shogun 03:27 5. Zombie Park 03:16 6. Dare 04:09 7. Sex Ufo 04:54 8. Cristal Mind 04:33 9. Naturalis Principia Musica 03:27