All I Need" is a song by French music group Air from their debut album Moon Safari (1998).
The song was written by group members Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel, along with American singer Beth Hirsch, who provides vocals on the song.
Production of the song was handled by the former two.
The song was released as the third single from Moon Safari on 9 November 1998.
The song came about in a period when Beth Hirsch and Air members Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel all resided in the French district of Montmartre.
Hirsch had gone to record in the house of a producer who also lived in the neighborhood. In the house, Godin was sitting on a couch, waiting to meet her.
Having heard a demo of Hirsch's, he invited her to record some tracks for Moon Safari.
Following this invitation, Hirsch wrote the lyrics and melody of "All I Need".
At the request of the band, she went on to compose another track for the album, "You Make It Easy".
"All I Need" received positive reviews from critics, who praised Hirsch's vocal performance and the track's instrumentation.
Chris Jones of BBC praised Hirsch's performance on the track, writing that her vocals "could almost break your stimulant-weary heart."[
Mike Diver of Drowned in Sound wrote that the track "holds up well as a blissful ballad" and similarly praised Hirsch's vocal performance, as well as marking the track "still absolutely gorgeous" in his review of the 2008 re-issue of Moon Safari.
Paul Schrodt of Slant Magazine wrote: "the gently plucked guitar in 'All I Need,' [...] lushly falls into place, escalates, and then dissipates into some kind of slickly produced ether."
Rolling Stone described the song as "a tragic café ballad."
The song was selected as one of 10,000 songs to "download and listen to before you die" in the 2010 book 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die.