Listen to Air Essentials on Apple Music.
Air Essentials
Playlist - 15 Songs
Where else would Sofia Coppola have found the perfect marriage of retro panache and effortless cool for the Virgin Suicides soundtrack? Even when not scoring films, the French duo of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel have been inventing whole new worlds with their music since the mid-‘90s, spinning '60s pop, easy listening and downtempo into songs that sound familiar and strange all at once. Vintage synths and vocoders lend a space-age ambience, and Air's songwriting transcends electronic trappings with melodies as weightless as their namesake.
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