Air in general Reviews

Like most people, i first heard about Air when MOON SAFARI found its way onto every coffee table and every post-club chillout lounge in the land. It was a thing of mesmerizing beauty, alright..! But! having played that album to death, and despite being wowed by parts of the soundtrack to the VIRGIN SUICIDES, i was mystifyingly ...  Read the complete review

Monday 29th October ‘Air’ came to Glasgow! Nope, some brilliant entrepreneur did not take a huge hoover and vacuum the smog and grime up, super glue the ozone layer and save our souls – wouldn’t it be nice! However, something equally as fab :s did happen: one of the most genius acts of our time came to the Barrowlands, and ...  Read the complete review

Air ! Its great ! I love it and use it everyday ! Here are (for me) its main uses, Breathing: This is the most popular use of 'air', I normally do this without thinking about it (if I do think about, I would forget my breathing pattern and hyperventilate) Air goes in, adds oxygen to my blood, I exhale carbon ...  Read the complete review

This is NOT a good Air album, unfortunately. In fact, I'm quite worried that I've wasted my money!! The album starts off pretty well, with Playground Love, which, uncharacteristically for Air, is a song. This is the stand-out track of the album. But that's where the fun ends. Every remaining track falls far short of ...  Read the complete review

Air are a fantastic group, and The Virgin Suicides was a fantastic film, and although the soundtrack seemed good whilst watching the film, the CD is boring, repetitive and lacks value. Designed to look like The Godfather soundtrack (in a homage to director Sofia Coppola’s father Francis), the soundtrack is morbid and depressing without ...  Read the complete review

Air are brilliant. Their first major album, Moon Safari, was a work of mellow genius, and the preceeding 5-track (and consequently re-released as a 7-track) EP type affair Premier Symptomes is even more relaxing, if less musically advanced. You can stick Air on the stereo whether you want background music, chillout music, or something to really ...  Read the complete review

The Virgin Suicides, as you may know, is a film by Sofia Coppola. I'm sure you can work out the basic premise from the title, and there must be reviews of the film on this site! Anyway, the story goes that Coppola, having heard some of Air's work, approached them and asked them to write a soundtrack to the film - and this is the result ...  Read the complete review

The official Air web-site has the style and ambience of their music. Covering everything from the pre Priemiere Symptomes era to the Virgin Suicides soundtrack and their documentry 'Eating, Sleeping and Playing' it has a wealth of information for you to digest. As well as the latest news, a short biography tells of how they came into ...  Read the complete review

This is the soundtrack to Sofia Coppola's film about the suicide of five beautiful teenage sisters in 'seventies suburban America, told from the point of view of the neighbourhood boys. The single from this album, 'Playground Love', is a slightly misleading example of the music on this album. For a start, it is a song, whereas the ...  Read the complete review

What matters is the aesthetics behind their music: without any snobbery or intellectual monotomy, they can say that classical music is a major influence eg Debussy, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky,...A sad fact about music today is that many of us feel alienated from classical music. There are variety of reasons for this - one being that it is a middle ...  Read the complete review