Air - Late Night Tales


year 2006
* Pop/Rock

review: Leftfield offerings come with The Trogg's 'Cousin Jane', the whispered vocals, simple cellos and finger piano suggesting a British Velvet Underground, before Reg and the boys collapse into the comely glissandos of Air's collaboration with writer Alessandro Baricco and thence to the milky folds of Ravel's 'Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte'. Coming out of leftfield is Cat Power's wonky ballad 'Metal Heart', while Robert Wyatt's 'PLA' is an off-the-wall lullaby to his partner Alfie. And there are the soundtracks – Tan Dun & George Delerue– fitting since Air have been writing them in their minds for their whole lives.