You need the RealAudio player to hear this clip. Listening to the soundtrack without the frenetic visuals makes Luhrmann's sincerity, if not his intentions, clear. Like the movie, the music puts time and taste through a pop-culture Cuisinart. Vanguard You need the RealAudio player to hear this clip. It's amazing the talent you can amass these days when you offer country singers a chance to get back to their roots.
Every track is a treasure, and every voice is in fine form.
If this project has a flaw, it's that the artists' approach to the material is sometimes inconsistent. In electronic music, the line between catchy and kitschy is a thin one. At times the kitsch is so thick you can practically see the two musicians laughing at each other across the studio. Yet Air's songs are so intoxicatingly strange you don't mind getting your chain yanked. All content copyright 2001 Detroit Free Press and may not be republished without permission.