Track Listing

1. Do The Joy
2. Love
3. So Light Is Her Footfall
4. Be A Bee
5. Missing The Light Of The Day
6. Tropical Disease
7. Heaven's Light
8. Night Hunter
9. Sing Sang Sung
10. Eat My Beat
11. You Can Tell It To Everybody
12. African Velvet

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #462 in Music
• Released on: 2009-10-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

CD Description
Love 2 is the fifth studio album from internationally revered French electronic pop duo Air. It is the follow-up to 2007’s acclaimed Pocket Symphony, and the first production to emanate from Atlas, their very own state-of-the-art recording Studio.

Nestled in the leafy backstreets of northern Paris, Atlas provided a creative haven for the band to produce these twelve new songs. Writing and producing entirely by themselves, they have cemented their association with LA-based drummer/percussionist Joey Waronker, who had previously joined them for their intimate, three-man "Close up" tour of south-east Asia in the Autumn of 2008. Stéphane "Alf" Briat, a long-time fixture of the Paris music scene, whose work with Air dates back to some of their earliest material, also came on board for the mixdown at Atlas.

Air’s 1998 debut album Moon Safari struck a unanimously harmonious chord with music lovers around the globe and has since become an electronic pop classic. Since then Air have enjoyed many career-defining moments and accolades, both at home and abroad, and have written, produced and collaborated on a breathtaking array of music projects.

Customer Reviews

The Closest You Wil Get To Moon Safari Without A Dune Buggy
We all know how good Moon Safari was/is. Anyone who doesn't is obviously a bit simple. It is without doubt one of the most complete albums ever made, not a weak track in sight. It's is the ultimate chill out album. The album you'd take on a desrted island with you, the album you'll listen to at 4am after a nightout. It's quite simply superb. Now you see, Air messed themselves up a bit there (that rhyme was by no means intentional) How can you follow and album like that. The answer was, well, really, you can't. You either try ad reproduce it, and then be accused of living on the back of that hit, or you go and try something a bit diffrent, and dare I say brave, and then you get accused of deserting what you're good at.

So that is Air really, that's what they've done, they went a bit electronic, some could say tried to be a bit to clever and they haven't really produced anything outstanding since. Good, oh yeah, of course, I've enjoyed all of the albums post Moon Safari. Loved them the same way. No, of course not.

This is a bit of a mish mash of all there stuff, not a massive mish mash, actually I'm lying, it's not a huge mish mash but the closest to Moon Safari since, well, Moon Safari. It's nice, it's not as good as Moon Safari and they mess it up a bit by adding a couple of heavy songs in there, I'm looking at you "Be A Bee"

There's not potential singles, mean when do Air really produce what you'd class as something that's going to rival Leona Lewis anyway, that's why we love them right?

Highlight though without doubt, Love, Heavens Light and the outstanding, breezy and strangely titled "tropical disease" which has got some lovely pan pipes on it. Yes, lovely pan pipes, something I never thought would be possibly to use in the same sentence.

To conclude and allow you lovely people to get on with your lives, and stop reading this drivel I would just like to say.

If you liked Moon Safari, if you enjoyed Premier Symptoms and if you don't want to listen to anymore of the contestants on X Factor, you couldn't go very far wrong with the beautiful Love 2 !

Air Creative Once Again
The last Air album which really did it for me was the much maligned and underrated "10 000Hz Legend"; since then Air have played it safe and became rather mainstream. "Love 2" is the first offering from their new studio and they have once more come up with something that can sit alongside their best work.
There is something for every Air fan on this, plenty of synth noodling, gorgeous melodies, radio friendly tracks, all done with their inimatable (OK much imitated) Gallic flair. No weak tracks, not sure why someone referred to "Night Hunter" as a weak track - it is classic old skool Air.
Whereas I was absolutely gobsmacked with horror at Zero 7's latest offering, I am delighted that Air have produced such a listenable and enjoyable experience. Moon Safari is what it is and I'm delighted they never went back to recreate it.

More Evolution
This is a good mixture of Air's styles; they vary from breathless/soundless melody to more intense poppy sounds. Sadly they seem to have ditched forever the dense layered texture of their early music which sounded so calming and now going for something simpler. So while much of this album is hushed and dulcet when the more upbeat tracks start it is somewhat a surprise. The lyrics are mostly gibberish Love over and over on the track "Love" and Sing Sang Sung which starts out as an ode to a workaholic and then degenerates into rhyme sing sang sung sing me a song?

If you are looking for more of Moon Safari you will be better off Zero 7 or Charlotte Gainsbourg's album 5:55 if you have followed Air down their musical path this isn't much of an evolution from Pocket Symphony.