A collection of Air's early singles, before the success of 'Sexy Boy' propelled them further up the echelons of the pop world, this seven-track album contains real signs that the band were to go on to do great things. The slower, more dreamy tracks, such as 'Les Professionels' (which includes ... Read review
Advantages: Calming, smooth, suave, sophisticated Disadvantages: Only seven tracks; final two seem misplaced
A collection of Air's early singles, before the success of 'Sexy Boy' propelled them further up the echelons of the pop world, this seven-track album contains real signs that the band were to go on to do great things. The slower, more dreamy tracks, such as 'Les Professionels' (which includes heavy references to a track on Moon Safari, Air's first album) are magical in the sense of mystery they create. The final two more upbeat tracks do not work ... ...mood of the album, but as stand-alone tracks are fine. If you liked Moon Safari or The Virgin Suicides, then you'll love this. If you aren't familiar with the band, then you might listen to another of their albums before you can fully appreciate this one. Nonetheless, a great collection of tracks.
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A collection of Air's early singles, before the success of 'Sexy Boy' propelled them further up the echelons of the pop world, this seven-track album contains real signs that the band were to go on to do great things. The slower, more dreamy tracks, such as 'Les Professionels' (which includes heavy references to a track on Moon Safari, Air's first album) are magical in the sense of mystery they create. The final two more upbeat tracks do not work quite as well, and don't seem to fit with the mood of the album, but as stand-alone tracks are fine. If you liked Moon Safari or The Virgin Suicides, then you'll love this. If you aren't familiar with the band, then you might listen to another of their albums before you can fully appreciate this one. Nonetheless, a great collection of tracks.
Advantages: Chilled perfection Disadvantages: None what's bad about chillin'?
of Canada and generally music to chill out to then this album is for you. Its £8.99 well spent trust me.
Other albums available from Air are:
PremiersSymptomes - a collection of early singles and remixes.
Moon Safari- the debut and a 'must own' album.
The Virgin Suicides- Wonderful soundtrack to Sophia Coppola's movie of the same name.
60,000 htz the Legend- the second studio album with some help from Beck on vocals. ...
Advantages: An album that gets better the more often you hear it Disadvantages: Unlikely to win them many new fans
The new album from Air is hard to define. A full album of newly recorded tracks (Unlike their last release PremierSymptomes, which was their first mini-album beefed up with rare tracks.) this album is still NOT the follow up to 1998's Moon Safari. It is in fact the official sound track to Sofia Coppola's film The Virgin Suicides. It is important as we judge it to remember that without the context of the film to define the meaning of the tracks. The most outstanding tracks are:
PLAYGROUND LOVE
Five words. Dark Side of The Moon. Not really, but not far off. This low, piano based song sounds like it could of easily been a track from side two of Dark Side. A saxophone enters at different points, helping enforce the sadness of the words. 9/10
BATHROOM GIRL
Another one of the themes, this track instantly hints at a sadness that we ...
Advantages: An Air fix until the new album comes out Disadvantages: Feel album would mean alot more if I'd seen the film
Air’s (Nicolas Godin and Jean Benoit Dunckel) previous album Moon Safari and the “mini-LP” PremiersSymptomes (a compilation of early work) were both superb, they managed to prove that is more to French music than Daft Punk. Now, however, Air are famous and prior to the release of this album had not released any new material for two years, so lot was expected of them.
The Virgin Suicides is the soundtrack to the Sophia Coppola (I have almost forgiven her for ruining The Godfather Part 3 for me with her acting as Al Pacino’s daughter) directed film of the same name.
This album is in the same style as the previous two with their multi-layered harmonies and electronic twists, however, it also has a distinct reflective, movie soundtrack feel to it. There is a much darker feel to this album, which from what I ...
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