Jean Michel Jarre : Equinoxe Part 4
In December of 1978 Jean Michel Jarre released Equinoxe, the follow up to his million selling Oxygene. Not all critics had kind things to say about the trance inducing album.
Davitt Sigerson of Melody Maker scorned the record, saying "it is as slushily, pseudo-galactically crass and vapid as last year's Oxygène. The melodies are trite, harmonies predictable, textures almost determinedly hackneyed (even down to artificial 'weather' effects to generate mood). There isn't even much that's danceable."
In Record Mirror Steve Gett considered the album to be "very artificial, and as a result quite emotionless ... As far as I was concerned the effect was one of sleep inducement, basically because it seems so lifeless and infinite, never reaching a specific goal but merely drifting on."
Nevertheless, the album sold more than a million copies in France, peaked at #11 on the UK album chart and #126 on the Billboard 200 chart.
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