The Virgin Suicides (OST)
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Medium:
Audio CD
Release Date:
28/02/2000
Date Imported:
18/06/2008
List Price:
£6.99
Label:
Virgin
Artist:
Air
Format:
Soundtrack
EAN:
0724384884826
UPC:
724384884826
Track Listing:
Disc #1
  1. Playground Love
  2. Clouds Up
  3. Bathroom Girl
  4. Cemetary Party
  5. Dark Messages
  6. The Word "Hurricane"
  7. Dirty Trip
  8. Highschool Lover
  9. Afternoon Sister
  10. Ghost Song
  11. Empty House
  12. Dead Bodies
  13. Suicide Underground
Description:

Amazon.co.uk Review French avant-pop duo Air's third album is the soundtrack to the Sofia Coppola movie about a brace of teenage sisters whose beauty mesmerises the local boys and whose suicides devastate the community. It's a Gothic, faintly silly romantic fantasy about lust for the unattainable, and Air's enigmatic "pure pop" treatment is the perfect musical backdrop. Tracks like "Playground Love" and "Highschool Lover" are deceptively candy-coated pieces of puppy lover's pop, all sighing saxophones and dippy keyboards, while "Bathroom Girl" is a slo-mo vision of beauty. With the spookier synth pulses and black vibes of "Cemetery Party" and "Dark Messages", however, Air get to signal the weirder undercurrents of the movie, while "Dead Bodies" is a full-on Gothic wig-out complete with a sisterly choir from beyond the grave. --David Stubbs

Average Customer Rating:
4.0