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Check our Air's new album "Love 2"

Posted at 4:21 PM on September 22, 2009 by Michael Wells

Love 2Air's new album - Love 2 - is being released on October 5. We were given a sampler of the new album as well as a track-by-track breakdown from Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin. Give it a listen and tell us what you think.


HEAVEN'S LIGHT
Nicolas Godin: It's JB on vocals and this song is very classic. It's all about keyboards and this has got the real classic Air chords. It has a John Barry feeling.
Jean-Benoît Dunckel: We wanted to get the feeling of climbing higher and higher into the light but with this sort of melancholy. It's also very romantic and a celebration of women like all Air songs. We always see women in a romantic, idealised way.

SING SANG SUNG
Nicolas Godin: The words are a joke about English grammar and again the vocal is by JB.
Jean-Benoît Dunckel: The vibration of the song is that everything is fine. Just let your work speak.

SO LIGHT IS HER FOOTFALL
Nicolas Godin: It was inspired by Oscar Wilde and fog and Jack The Ripper. Very romantic! Our romantic vision of England.
Jean-Benoît Dunckel: I think the title is originally from Oscar Wilde and it was about ghosts in a castle. We built the song from the title.

NIGHT HUNTER
Nicolas Godin: This was just a jam, but we wanted to put a different melody on top of it because otherwise it would just sound like a pastiche. So it has an Eastern melody with this Afrobeat feeling underneath. It's a meeting of culture.
Jean-Benoît Dunckel: It's a like a little bit of a melting pot with a bit of Caribbean culture in there. There are tigers and lions in there, too, stalking the song.

EAT MY BEAT
Nicolas Godin: It's like a cop show. This was another one of our jams. I buy a lot of keyboards and I think I really make sure that I use them properly - because so many don't now - so they sound unique.
Jean-Benoît Dunckel: Everything is in a rush. The guitars, in particular, seem to be in a rush and we can't stop them.

DO THE JOY
Nicolas Godin: It's our ecology song. It's about the imminent end of the planet so let's enjoy ourselves before it all goes.
Jean-Benoît Dunckel: Our lives right now are in danger from work, from life, from everything. And it's important to be happy now because tomorrow you don't know what will happen. Because we have to enjoy life right now because the end of the world might be tomorrow.

LOVE
Jean-Benoît Dunckel: We are very interested in love. We try to show all aspects of love. We try to show how important love is in this technological world.

AFRICAN VELVET
Nicolas Godin: It's an old riff on the guitar we'd never got round to recording. I wanted it to be a little bit 'rock'.
Jean-Benoît Dunckel: It's the softness of velvet. Anything can be like velvet. It's beautiful.

MISSING THE LIGHT OF THE DAY
Nicolas Godin: This is unexpected and really cool. We wanted to get these really interesting synth sounds in there and again it has JB on vocals.
Jean-Benoît Dunckel: We miss the light of the day, especially in winter. It affects your mind. Or you might miss the light of the day in nightclubs!

BE A BEE
Nicolas Godin: This is a tune that we'd been playing at soundchecks for a while. I love it and I love the sound of it: Be A Bee!
Jean-Benoît Dunckel: It's a crazy instrumental but in a good way. The lyrics don't make any sense but the music is a freakout.

YOU CAN TELL
Nicolas Godin: Each time we make an album, we normally have all this slow music and we have to find something uptempo to add to it, but this time we needed some slower songs on there and this is one of them.
Jean-Benoît Dunckel: It's a kind of love song. A hidden love. A lot of love sensations are obscured by things around you. Sometimes it has to be hidden to be shown.

TROPICAL DISEASE
Nicolas Godin: It's our vision of Brazil. The late 60s psychedelia in Brazil like Tropicalia but also it's got these jazzy influences like Alice Coltrane in there.
Jean-Benoît Dunckel: It reminds me of Rio de Janeiro. I've never been there, but it reminds me of what I imagine it to be. I have a vision of being in a plane and arriving in Rio de Janeiro. I don't know why. The song is like a trip.

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