Talkie Walkie is rich, somber headphone pop. It's beautiful, it's magical, it's disorienting, and it's over in an hour. Nigel Godrich, the man behind Radiohead's OK Computer and Beck's Mutations, helps build the spacious grandeur of the music. The album's crowning achievement, "Alpha Beta Gaga," takes the happiest melody Air have ever composed and warps it with a cheerfully whistled chorus that sounds right at home in an alien musical environment full of bright pizzicato strings, therem   [ read more ]

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A cavalcade of analog synthesizers, organs, electric pianos, and processed voices populate Moon Safari, a thoroughly appealing, otherworldly debut album from Air. Where most of their dance contemporaries push the boundaries of trip-hop or jungle, Air blends Euro-dance with new wave. Any futuristic element on their album feels strangely outdated, since they're borrowed from the early '80s, which gives their music an odd, out-of-time feeling. The waves of gurgling synths beneath the spacious, colorful chords    [ read more ]

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Following their third album, Talkie Walkie, Air are set to return with their new album Pocket Symphony. The album, made up of 12 songs that were recorded over the last 18 months and produced by long time partner Nigel Godrich, features vocals by Dunckel and Godin themselves but also from Jarvis Cocker and Neil Hannon (Divine Comedy). Air once again achieve that rare supernova of artistic vision that dares to reconcile palpable, unapologetic ambience with unpretentious soulful simplicity. They    [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Following their third album, Talkie Walkie, Air are set to return with their new album Pocket Symphony. The album, made up of 12 songs that were recorded over the last 18 months and produced by long time partner Nigel Godrich, features vocals by Dunckel and Godin themselves but also from Jarvis Cocker and Neil Hannon (Divine Comedy). Air once again achieve that rare supernova of artistic vision that dares to reconcile palpable, unapologetic ambience with unpretentious soulful sim   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. New monster album from French electro popsters features guest appearances from BECK & BUFFALO DAUGHTER. Recommended.

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A 3-disc Deluxe Edition of Air's seminal 1998 debut album Moon Safari, packaged in a case bound book DVD size. Second audio disc features rarities, remixes (Beck, Moog Cookbook) and key songs from radio sessions recorded during 1998. DVD component is the hour-long Mike Mills documentary Eating, Sleeping Waiting and Playing filmed in New York, London and Paris during Air's first tour.

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Two years after the arrival of their debut album, the French twosome Air returned, not with a proper sophomore LP, but with The Virgin Suicides, a full soundtrack to the directing debut of Sophia Coppola. Only one track, "Playground Love," has vocals, and that comes from an outsider (Gordon Tracks) who sounds more like the Auteurs' Luke Haines than Beth Hirsch, the only real vocalist employed previously. The trademarked Air sound is for the most part unchanged; as on {^Moon Safari   [ read more ]

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It's usually just the collectors and obsessed fans that contend a band's first few singles are really their best work, far better than the material that ends up on their first album. With the French band Air, the collectors may just be right for once. Premiers Symptomes, a five-track EP boosted up to seven tracks for its eventual American issue on Astralwerks, features some of the most gorgeous moments in the duo's discography -- no small task considering the gems on their full-length debut, 1998's   [ read more ]

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Following the overwhelming acclaim fro their 10,000 Hz Legend, a sold-out US tour, and some major support from MTV2, French electro-pop specialists AIR return with a new joint featuring remixes of three of the suavest cuts on the album. Ten tracks that run the gamut of electronic styles from jazzy hip hop to hardcore trance, to reggae and soul, featuring remixers the NEPTUNES, HACKER, ADRIAN SHERWOOD, ROGER MANNING, MR. OIZO, THOMAS BANGALTER, MODJO, and JACK LAHANA.

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VINYL FORMAT. Recalling the elegant seduction of their classic single "All I Need" from their seminal "Moon Safari" album, "Cherry Blossom Girl" is a slice of classic Air and a song that is currently an Astralwerks priority. In fact, Nigel Godrich's radio mix is the leadoff track on this 4-track CD single, which also includes contributions from Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval and UK experimental pop pioneers Simian. The 12" single counterpart is a three-track release and perfect for DJs working in the downtempo/   [ read more ]

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New monster album from French electro popsters features guest appearances from BECK & BUFFALO DAUGHTER. Recommended.

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It's usually just the collectors and obsessed fans that contend a band's first few singles are really their best work, far better than the material that ends up on their first album. With the French band Air, the collectors may just be right for once. Premiers Symptomes, a five-track EP boosted up to seven tracks for its eventual American issue on Astralwerks, features some of the most gorgeous moments in the duo's discography -- no small task considering the gems included on their full-length debu   [ read more ]

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