This is Air. There is a track on 10,000 Hz Legend that is about making love with a sex god and when you do, you have such a big orgasm you die. He's talking about Sex Born Poison which finds the French duo of Dunckel and Nicolas Godin abandoning their signature mix of '70s guitar chords and chilled ambience for something altogether darker, edgier, twisted - but still strikingly beautiful. The sound shifts through a spectrum of vocal intonation, soft acoustics and pushed electronics, strings sweep with grandeur only to be offset by minimalism. While everybodyelse is running around carefully caressing the Air template into their own shape, Air have radically altered the template, much as fellow French duo Daft Punk went one step further on their recent Discovery, and redefined what the signature should be.
Sex is good, though.
Sex and love. Love and sex. Air, however, remain the breath on everybody's lips. They are sexy, even when they're being dark, and they're fantasists who insert their dreams in reality. Much like us all, really, if the truth be known.