Air “The Virgin Suicides (Soundtrack)” (2000) – got it
Air’s debut album “Moon Safari” (entry 874) had been chilling people out
for a year or two, and then the French duo reappeared scoring Sofia
Coppola’s directorial debut ‘Virgin Suicides’, the film adaptation of
Jeffery Eugenides’ novel.
The film is full of beauty and bleakness, life and death. The music
offsets this with a quality that is dreamy, yet with an underlying
darkness. A vibe not unlike Angelo Badalementi’s work for David Lynch
on Twin Peaks.
The opening track "Playground Love"
is a dreamy electro indie-pop track, but much of the rest of the album
is instrumental with a few melodic themes repeated on different tracks
like one of Marvin Gaye's song-suite albums.
There's a vaguely trippy 70s-era Pink Floydian vibe to some of the music, particularly closing track "Suicide Underground" which also features narration from the film, linking the score back to its source.
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