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2009’s Love 2 may be the purest expression from the French electronic duo Air to date. With just drummer Joey Waronker joining them on a number of tracks, Love 2 strips the Air assault down to its essentials, but it’s still plenty symphonic with the sounds of wind and the beeps of electronic gadgetry fleshing out the tracks. Whether it’s the mostly instrumental “Tropical Disease”, the completely instrumental “Eat My Beat”, where the highway heads into outerspace, the ghostly pop of “Heaven’s Light” or the one word drive of “Love”, Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin create complex soundscapes that start with Kraftwerk and sneak into the smooth cadences of ‘70s AM pop-radio stars Bread. While there’s a natural somber quality to this keyboard-intensive approach, Air do manage a few light-hearted moments with “Be a Bee” that buzzes amongst the synths and “Sing Sang Sung” that sounds like a grammar lesson gone wrong. Whether used as background music or as an intense headphone experience, Love 2 has layers to unpeel at your leisure.

Customer Reviews

Assuringly familiar yet....different.

On first hearing you'll be mistaken for thinking this is an average follow up in comparison to Pocket Symphony. However after a 2nd and then even 3rd listen you'll start to realise the pull that the french duo have so consitantly created in the past is in full force. The soulful melodic piano and drowning synth lines are all intact along with a slightly funk driven momentum. After nearly 2 years since their last studio album Air have struck a chord here with something different yet assuringly familiar at the same time, give it patience though as I found it to be more of a grower than an instant classic.

Standouts: Missing The Light Of The Day, Heaven's Light, Sing Sang Sung, and African Velvet

Just right

Tme most balanced AIR album since Premier Symptomes and Moon Safari. All the signatures are present and correct. Some great uptempo tracks. It all feels quite breezy and free. Highly recommended. Doesn't slip into muzak territory or tricksy electronica. Just AIR being AIR. Just right.

It's good

I think Pocket Symphony was Air's iffiest album, and Love 2 makes up for that slight hiccup. It sounds nice and familiar, yet still innovative and different with its own personality. I haven't given it 5 stars because although I like it, I don't think there's anything on there that's shockingly amazing, which is why I also think it's an album to listen to from start to finish as for me no individual tracks really stand out (like they did in albums before Pocket Symphony).

Biography

Formed: 1995 in Paris, France

Genre: Electronic

Years Active: '90s, '00s

More apt to cite stately rock paragons Burt Bacharach and Brian Wilson as their inspirations than Derrick May or Aphex Twin, the French duo Air gained inclusion into the late-'90s electronica surge due chiefly to the labels their recordings appeared on, not the actual music they produced. Their sound, a variant of the classic disco sound coaxed into a relaxing Prozac vision of the late '70s, looked back to a variety of phenomena from the period — synthesizer maestros Tomita, Jean-Michel Jarre,...
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