Air - Love 2
Air - Love 2
Astralwerks - October 6, 2009
by Sam Frank
Time moves fast. Seems like only yesterday Air's 1998 breakthrough album, Moon Safari, first grabbed the international spotlight with downtempo classics such as "Kelly Watch The Stars," "All I Need," and of course, "Sexy Boy." In the years following Moon Safari French duo Nicholas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel (the masterminds behind Air) have produced an array of emotionally seductive tunes, contributed to various movie soundtracks, and performed around the world, but on their newest album, Love 2 Air shows us how to welcome life from a different vantage point.
Recorded at their new studio in Paris, Love 2 is a musical adventure that deconstructs the way our brain manipulates time. In Michael Bay's first Transformers movie we saw many battle scenes between the autobots and decepticons. As fighting intensified so did the action. But sometimes the sequences were so fast that it looked like two metallic blobs battling each other. For Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, Bay rectified this problem by injecting a slow motion effect referred to as "bullet time" into all the action scenes; thus, giving moviegoers a chance to process what they were seeing onscreen. Although the "bullet time" effect only lasts a few seconds before returning to "normal" speed, it profoundly impacted the movie as a whole, similar to how Air's music resonates with fans.
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Read the full review at UnRatedMagazine.com
Astralwerks - October 6, 2009
by Sam Frank
Time moves fast. Seems like only yesterday Air's 1998 breakthrough album, Moon Safari, first grabbed the international spotlight with downtempo classics such as "Kelly Watch The Stars," "All I Need," and of course, "Sexy Boy." In the years following Moon Safari French duo Nicholas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel (the masterminds behind Air) have produced an array of emotionally seductive tunes, contributed to various movie soundtracks, and performed around the world, but on their newest album, Love 2 Air shows us how to welcome life from a different vantage point.
Recorded at their new studio in Paris, Love 2 is a musical adventure that deconstructs the way our brain manipulates time. In Michael Bay's first Transformers movie we saw many battle scenes between the autobots and decepticons. As fighting intensified so did the action. But sometimes the sequences were so fast that it looked like two metallic blobs battling each other. For Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, Bay rectified this problem by injecting a slow motion effect referred to as "bullet time" into all the action scenes; thus, giving moviegoers a chance to process what they were seeing onscreen. Although the "bullet time" effect only lasts a few seconds before returning to "normal" speed, it profoundly impacted the movie as a whole, similar to how Air's music resonates with fans.
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Read the full review at UnRatedMagazine.com
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