AIR - The Virgin Suicides

Label:

Record Makers, Virgin, Source Records (FR)

Catalog#:

REC-01, CDV 2910, 7243 8 48848 2 6

Format:

CD, Album

Country:

Released:

25 Feb 2000

Genre:

Electronic, Rock, Stage & Screen

Style:

Downtempo, Score, Psychedelic Rock, Ambient

Tracklist

1	Playground Love	3:32	X
	Saxophone - Hugo Ferran Vocals, Drums - Gordon Tracks
2	Clouds Up	1:30	X
3	Bathroom Girl	2:25	X
4	Cemetary Party	2:36	X
5	Dark Messages	2:28	X
6	The Word 'Hurricane'	2:33	X
7	Dirty Trip	6:12	X
8	Highschool Lover (Theme From The Virgin Suicides)	2:42	X
9	Afternoon Sister	2:24	X
10	Ghost Song	2:16	X
11	Empty House	2:58	X
12	Dead Bodies	2:59	X
13	Suicide Underground	5:52	X

Credits

Artwork By [Drawing] - Mike Mills (2)
Drums - Brian Reitzell (tracks: 3, 6, 7, 12, 13)
Mixed By - Stéphane "Alf" Briat
Producer, Composed By, Performer, Recorded By - AIR
Recorded By [Drums] - Pascal Garnon

Notes

Original motion picture score for The Virgin Suicides, a film by Sofia Coppola
In jewel case

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Rated 5/5

Review by Moanerman Mar 31, 2007 (edited over 2 years ago)

If you really want to know why this piece of jazzy, soft, melancholic and sad music is that magic you must have seen the movie.
The whole story, which in fact isn’t that important, is being told by one of the boys who are vaguely friends with the girls. And that’s the beauty of “The Virgin Suicides”. To the boys, the Lisbon girls are a mystery, a fascination, an obsession. No one understands them, neither do we, the audience. Cause of this perspective there’s always a 'gap' between the audience and the teenage girls.
That’s what makes the music from 'The Virgin Suicides' really beautiful. If one band manages to put together instrumental harmonies with well-placed and well-played synths, from time to time adding lyrics as well, it is Air.
'The Virgin Suicides' is the band's best release in my opinion! The main theme is repeated exactly on the spots of the CD where you long to hear it again. Beautifully introduced with 'Playground Love’and ending in the somber 'Suicide Underground' which will bring back memories to those who have seen this poetically sad film.
If you like the movie – like I do – this CD is more than a soundtrack. Sofia Copolla definitely knew which band she had to choose to express the poetry and sad story of the Lisbon girls.
The only critic that I have is that some of the tracks are way to short, but nevertheless, a timeless masterpiece