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Love 2 by Air
3,463,694 plays (135,858 listeners)
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Tracklist
| Track | Duration | Listeners | ||||
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Do The Joy | 3:02 | 91,080 | ||
| 2 | Love | 2:43 | 89,196 | |||
| 3 |
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So Light Is Her Footfall | 3:13 | 84,539 | ||
| 4 |
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Be A Bee | 3:45 | 75,929 | ||
| 5 |
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Missing The Light Of The Day | 4:25 | 70,239 | ||
| 6 |
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Tropical Disease | 6:47 | 69,297 | ||
| 7 |
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Heaven's Light | 3:52 | 69,193 | ||
| 8 |
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Night Hunter | 4:12 | 64,010 | ||
| 9 |
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Sing Sang Sung | 3:07 | 75,478 | ||
| 10 |
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Eat My Beat | 2:45 | 62,880 | ||
| 11 |
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You Can Tell It To Everybody | 4:10 | 59,267 | ||
| 12 |
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African Velvet | 3:48 | 65,481 |
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About this album
There are a few things I’m impressed with Air for doing: resuscitating crusty, decades-old Moog blorps amidst the frenzy of millennial techno-utopian futurism, turning a new generation on to a certain vintage Gallic notion of jet-set sophistication, and getting indie- and punk-dominated college rock stations to play what essentially amounted to lounge prog.
Most of all, there’s the way they composed their music as an unapologetically frothy sort of cheese-pop without letting it get dominated by snorting insincerity or self-conscious hokeyness. You could still hear the kitsch, but it wasn’t the driving force, and they had a sneaky way of lulling you into forgetting you weren’t “supposed” to like this kind of thing. Hell, lots of people actually had sex to Moon Safari, which is about as unironic as you can get. (At least I hope they were being unironic.)
A half-decade of Balearic/glo-fi/’lude-house has since refined that mellow aesthetic to the point where taste-conscious end-runs around potential irony have become increasingly unnecessary. But while that refinement applied readily to the subtle songcraft of Talkie Walkie and Pocket Symphony, both of which provided ample evidence of Air’s vintage pop smarts, they’ve somehow stumbled their way into a pit of lite-FM treacle on their new album. Love 2— as titles go, a bad pun disguised as a sequel nobody needed— is a dopey little slice of not-much that feels like a noodly rendering of yacht-pop weightlessness.
A half-decade of Balearic/glo-fi/’lude-house has since refined that mellow aesthetic to the point where taste-conscious end-runs around potential irony have become increasingly unnecessary. But while that refinement applied readily to the subtle songcraft of Talkie Walkie and Pocket Symphony, both of which provided ample evidence of Air’s vintage pop smarts, they’ve somehow stumbled their way into a pit of lite-FM treacle on their new album. Love 2— as titles go, a bad pun disguised as a sequel nobody needed— is a dopey little slice of not-much that feels like a noodly rendering of yacht-pop weightlessness.
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melancolie0 wrote:
Обожаю этот альбом.
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Jim_Lithium wrote:
They must be fans of Neu!.
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cccarnero wrote:
I'm totally in love with Eat my beat
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Beefheart- wrote:
Sounds more like an entire album instead of collection of Air pieces. Just excellent overall. There hasn't been a bad Air album yet.
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DuuNfox wrote:
great album for me
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EchotheSun wrote:
If you get the influences, specifically the french ones, from the early 70s, then you'll probably treasure this record; it had such a great warm analogue sound and consistency throughout, and every song fits perfectly in it's place like a film soundtrack from that era (for some reason i'm thinking of Cannabis), not to mention all the nods to françoise (and even a cover at the end(!)...for me it's only second to moon safari, and a million better than pocket symphony which left me frozen. adore this record. :)
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kaw1216 wrote:
2 or 3 songs are good, but where is the AIR i know and love??? i hate to say it.. but i'm pretty dissapointed with this album.
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topjim wrote:
This album's not so bad :¬)
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adamzZz wrote:
Well... despite from the first song being fantastic, the rest is horrendous
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Sepia_Verve wrote:
or as good as those two songs
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Sepia_Verve wrote:
@rcaz apparently undescribable.. no but this definitely a step down from Pocket Symphony because nothing on it is better than Left Bank or Mer du Japon
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m-salami wrote:
I've disapointed by love 2, now i give a second chance. I think it's quite good for Darkel lovers. Bee a Bee is good, Heaven's light too, Sing Sang Sung too...
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denisgianne wrote:
great album
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rcaz wrote:
"unapologetically frothy sort of cheese-pop without letting it get dominated by snorting insincerity or self-conscious hokeyness" "A half-decade of Balearic/glo-fi/’lude-house " "noodly rendering of yacht-pop weightlessness." OMFG
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rcaz wrote:
"resuscitating crusty, decades-old Moog blorps amidst the frenzy of millennial techno-utopian futurism, turning a new generation on to a certain vintage Gallic notion of jet-set sophistication, and getting indie- and punk-dominated college rock stations to play what essentially amounted to lounge prog" OVERLOAD
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gangstayoda wrote:
pretty good so far.. i haven't listened to them since pocket symphony. glad to get reacquainted
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Amidlo wrote:
a peaceful album. not as good as the previous ones, but still its very nice to play it in a background to some random home activities ;)
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oMANOo wrote:
stop bitchin', this album is great
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MagnolianCacao wrote:
quite dissapointing
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sushi1985 wrote:
tropical disease is a very nice track!!!
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