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65 out of 100

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6.8 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 12 Ratings

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  • Summary: The French duo worked with drummer Joey Waronker on their latest studio album.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. Urb
    90
    Love 2 is a pleasurable and satisfactory record, one where every track provides just what's needed and sets the stage for a new composition to step in and carry the beats to their finale.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    88
    Love 2 is not a make-out album in the traditional sense. It's about the love of silence, stillness, of being a conscious human being and watching the world float by.
  3. Dot Music
    60
    Perhaps the less successful tracks here might have been novel and fresh 15 years ago, but interest in library music and analogue synths was piqued long ago and some of Love 2 sounds like one example of many these days.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 3 out of 5
  1. DaleC
    10
    Like all great Air, this record is not what it seems, waiting to get under your skin and into your psyche. In that respect, Love 2 is just like Moon Safari. Grumpy reviewing aside, Air has evolved in their own way and shows it with each successive release. Everything you love about Air is here just waiting for you. Just relax and hang up the crankiness.… Expand
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  2. J.A.
    3
    First off, I love AIR. I've loved their music since 1998. I'm a big fan of Darkel too. I'm privy to want to play devil's advocate for them. But this album... it's just, soulless fluff. A mishmash of ideas that don't congeal well, over a musical pastiche as shallow as the golden 70's font on the cover of the album. The lack of a producer this time around keeping the guys on target is unfortunately all too apparent. Every song is a meandering half idea that has no solid core, and might as well be cotton candy melting on a hot summer's sidewalk. Love 2 isn't even experimentally appreciative like 10,000 Hz Legend was. It's so simplistic it sounds like they wrote it in all of two weeks. Dunckel and Godin are simply capable of work light years beyond this fluffy dreck, and Love 2 is just a slap in the face to their fans who've waited so long for the next Talkie Walkie or Moon Safari. I expected more out of AIR and Studio Atlas. Much more. Complacency has made AIR lazy, and that's all too apparent on Love 2, a sequel to an imaginary album that thankfully wasn't even made.… Expand
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  3. micho224
    3
    This record just feels flat, made up of a patchwork of half baked ideas. It's not very cohesive and doesn't hold a candle to Talkie Walkie which was amazing.… Expand
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