10,000hz Legend (Air)
from Virgin
Disk 1: - Electronic Performers - How Does It Make You Feel - Radio Number 1 - The Vagabond - Radian - Lucky And Unhappy - Sex Born Poison - People In The City - Wonder Milky Bitch - Don't Be Light - Caramel Prisoner
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Binding/Format: Audio CD
Model No: CDV2945
Release Date: 28/05/2001
Availability: dispatched within 24 hours
Index: Music
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Music Pod Price: £3.97
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Product Description AIR 10 000 Hz Legend (2001 European 11-track CD album from French chill out duo featuring the single Radio #1 and following on from their Moon Safari debut & The Virgin Suicides soundtrack albums picture sleeve CDV2945)
French duo, Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicholas Godin's 1998 debut was a glorious anachronism. An analogue bubblebath of synths, saxophones, xylophones, fuzzy guitars and all manner of louche melodies it managed to be both original and utterly retro. 10,000 Hz Legend is the exact meeting point between wearying experimentation and heart-warming melancholia. There's nothing as charming as "Sexy Boy" or as generous as "You Make It Easy" but if you skip the first two tracks, which have more than a touch of Pink Floyd about them, there are a few twisted gems here. Amid the sprawling mass of shrill melody and Kraftwerkian computer voices that is "Lucky and Unhappy", the compressed trash-pop of Radio #1 (a brash cuss down of that infamous institution) and shimmering folk-funk of "The Vagabond" sung by Beck, verge on classic. As for "Sex Born Poison" sung by Japanese indie duo Buffalo Daughter, there's something about this particularly bewitching blend of cool female vocals and a Bernard Psycho Herrmann soundtrack that is out of time, beautiful and in your face. Though 10,000 Hz Legend as a whole is inconsistent and a little bit "aren't we weird?", Air have certainly crafted an inventive album worth hearing. --Reuben Dessay
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Associated music album categories: Easy Listening & Lounge |
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