![]() ![]() It’s not as if Air haven’t been busy - Jean-Benoît Dunckel continues to work solo under his Darkel moniker, recently releasing a soundtrack to Alanté Kavaïté’s new film, The Summer Of Sangaile, while Nicolas Godin will release his first solo album, Contrepoint, this fall - but revisiting all of the band’s catalog over the past few weeks in one fell swoop certainly makes one hope that the duo will see fit to make some new music together in the not-so-distant future. ![]() These are not likely things I would be brewing over were it not for the fact that Air’s entire back catalog has recently been given a nice once-over in the form of some new reissues (their first five studio albums have been pressed on 180-gram vinyl for the first time), including a deliciously remastered and pumped-up “15th Anniversary Deluxe Edition” of The Virgin Suicides soundtrack (complete with outtakes and some pretty exceptional-sounding live performances). Things that make me feel surprisingly and suddenly old: (1) the fact that Air’s soundtrack to The Virgin Suicides was released 15 years ago and (2) the fact that it’s been nearly six years since Air released their last proper studio album, 2009’s Love 2. ![]()
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