Love 2
by Air
User Score
7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 14 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 14
  3. Negative: 3 out of 14

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  1. AlanD
    Oct 9, 2009
    8
    I think is a very nice album, much better than Pocket S. It has a little bit of Moon Safari, Virgin S, Premiers S and Talkie W....great stuff!...my only down is that i found a little bit loopy.
  2. DaleC
    Oct 19, 2009
    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.
  3. J.A.
    Oct 9, 2009
    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 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
  4. MichaelD
    Oct 14, 2009
    2
    Arguably my best band, Ive grown to love their music old and new after first hearing them through their 10/10 album Talkie Walkie. However this album seems stunted and unable to find the musical depths of their previous work!!! I find it hollow, pretenscious and the biggest musical dissapointment this year!!! I give it a 2 only cause Id still fly accross australia to see them live!!!
  5. micho224
    Oct 24, 2011
    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.
  6. BSchoemann
    Dec 14, 2013
    10
    An amazingly great album, it really does capture Air's atmospheric feel. I think a lot of the criticism comes from it being compared to Air's other work; this album isn't as energetic as Air's other music, but it's just as satisfying

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Metascore
65

Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. AllMusic
    80
    Air remains a deceptively subtle band, but repeated listens to Love 2 reveal that Godin and Dunckel aren't just remaining true to their aesthetic here, but that even a smaller-scale album from the duo has plenty of wit and surprises to offer.
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  2. Pitchfork
    40
    Thing is, it still sounds entirely like an Air album--just a remarkably bland one.
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  3. Slant Magazine
    50
    Consistently smooth to the point of tedium, Love 2 has the unruffled air of '50s bachelor-pad cool, often recalling Enoch Light and other space-age instrumentalists, but its overbearing electronic elements negate the organic feel it would otherwise inherit from those albums, leaving an impressively dispassionate patina with almost nothing underneath.
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