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Air - 10,000 Hz Legend Audio CD

A fair review of the Air "10,000 Hz Legend" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Air reviews here, or go back to the Air tabs.

Air Band: Air
Title: 10,000 Hz Legend
Rating:
Release Date: 2001-05-29
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Electronic Performers 2: How Does It make You Feel? 3: Radio #1 4: The Vagabond (Featuring Beck) 5: Radian 6: Lucky & Unhappy 7: Sex Born Poison (Featuring Buffalo Daughter) 8: People In The City 9: Wonder Milky Bitch 10: Don't Be Light (Featuring Beck) 11: Caramel Prisoner

vibrant flow of Air
Moon Safari is not only an absolute classic, but I feel like it was I ground breaking album at the time of its release. This album is not as even as Moon Safari which was a spectacular electronica release of 1998. Its mood is phenomenal, very even and so light and appropriately. . . airy. Moon Safari is a definite 5 star album and it is most likely the favorite album of the majority of Air lovers, and. . . rightfully so. I am choosing 10,000 Hertz Legend as my favorite ablum of Air and I am giving it 5 stars as well. This music is much more experimental and eclectic than all the other albums of Air. We have only remnants of their typical mellow electronic moods here, but we have so much more. This album is an interesting mix of many various things, some better like The Vagabond and Don't Be Light (with our beloved Beck), or Radian and How Does It Make You Feel?; some worse, like Wonder Milky Bitch or Radio #1; and some very special and great. The special songs to me are Lucky And Unhappy, just because it is such a common seen worth mentioning, and People In The City because that song also in a very special way shows us how machine like we often become without those walks to the forest or looking at the waves. Both these songs accomplish their purpose in such nice airy way. However, the remaining 3 songs are so intriguing and unique and at the same time carry such power (at least that is how they affect me) that every one of them is worth more than a nice electronic mood. The beginning song Electronic Performers is a very appropriate introduction by this amazing French duo. They truly could be some of the most interesting electronic performers out there. Radiohead has introduced the digital voice to all of us on their 1997 Ok Computer. However, the strength of Electronic Performers is the emotion placed into that voice of the man-machine. Another song I really like is Caramel Prisoner, which I find really powerful. However, my favorite song of this album is Sex Born Poison, which I truly love, same way as I love the songs of Radiohead or Porcupine Tree. I never felt that way about the beautiful songs of Moon Safari. I guess that is why I am choosing this album for my Air story. About a year and a half ago I have compiled my favorite Air songs and I have updated that compilation last week after listening to their new Love 2 for a while. So, here is my Vibrant Flow Of Air:

1. Caramel Poison
2. Playground Love
3. Photograph
4. Ce Matin La
5. Tropical Disease
6. Sex Born Poison
7. Highschool Lover
8. You Make It Easy
9. Electronic Performers
10. Lucky And Unhappy
11. Run
12. Space Maker
13. Biological
14. Bathroom Girl
15. A New Star In The Sky
16. Talisman
17. Heaven's Light
18. Redhead Girl
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A must
Why anyone would want another moon safari bewilders me. When people get over moon safari they may get to appreciate this great set of songs. Buy this record and enjoy it for what it is,a fantastic journey someplace new. I love it. Lets hope Air keep reinventing.


Enjoyable avantgarde
It's a strange blend of spaced out dreamy sequences and egging, throbbing rhythms, electronic blips and old and proven run of the mill studio instruments. I don't think I've ever heard anything quite like this album.

If I were a musician I wish had the imagination to make this album.


Air hissing out
Aside from those songs, it all flowed wonderfully, a tightly cohesive effort that drifted through the subconscious. Despite songs like "Sexy Boy" and "Remember," "Moon Safari"'s greatest strength seemed to be its commitment to the retro-futrism of doing an electronic album that sounded dated by a good twenty years.

On "10,000 Hz Legend," the duo decides, "Screw that, let's make a mess!" And so it is. A mess, I mean. They try too hard, succeed too little. They bring in Beck to little avail (hell, the early part of his track is just, well, Beck); they rip-off Radiohead for no good reason; and they miss the mark by 10,000 miles on "Radian," an overwrought, treacly little piece of refuse begging to be stuffed into a B-side collection that only hardcore fans could admire.

That Air emerges on the other side with almost half a listenable album is a miracle in itself. That the listener is left with this as the follow-up to "Moon Safari" (not counting the very good soundtrack for "The Virgin Suicides") is a gyp. This is what's convenient about the digital age: not only can anyone produce sub-par electro like this any time they want, but the consumer can illegally download it, ween the four or five tracks worth keeping, and chuck the rest into the Recycle Bin.

Best cuts: "People in the City," "Wonder Milky Bitch," "Radio #1," "Don't Be Light".


Overindulgent artists stuck in-between
In labored, pretentious, but shallow structural dabblings the French duo strain for an artsy depth merely hinted at with their spacey, more intuitive debut. 2 1/2

Make no mistake, there are a couple beautiful songs on here (or at least several which have beautiful parts inside the experimental electronic confusion), but for the most part people who slap the ol' sophomore slump label upon Air's much anticipated follow up to Moon Safari would be in the clear. Between the often stilted compositions and a few awkward genre leaps, 10,000 Hz becomes clouded by it's own self-absorption. One hardly notices then, quite a few contrastingly solid ideas inserted into the bloated disc, hinting at the more complex, melodically driven approach that would usher in Talkie Walkie's warmer reception.


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