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Track Listing
1. Electronic Performers
2. How Does It Make You Feel?
3. Radio #1
4. Vagabond, The - (featuring Beck)
5. Radian
6. Lucky & Unhappy
7. Sex Born Poison - (Japanese, featuring Buffalo Daughter)
8. People in the City
9. Wonder Milky Bitch
10. Don't Be Light - (featuring Beck)
11. Caramel Prisoner
Album Notes
Air: Nicolas Godin, JB Dunckel.
Additional personnel includes: Beck (vocals, harmonica, keyboards); Justin Meldal-Johnsen (vocals, bass); Sugar, Yumiko, Lisa Papineau, Jean Croc, Corky Hale, Jason Falkner, Ken Andrews, Barbara Cohen (vocals); Julia Sarr, Olyza (harp); Elin Carlson (whistle); Brian Reitzell (drums, programming); Roger Joseph Manning Jr (programming).
Recorded in Paris, France and Los Angeles, California.
Before this album, the last full-length offering from French duo Air was the soundtrack to the Virgin Suicides. That effort marked so much expansion on and progression from its predecessor (Air's debut MOON SAFARI) that a further push up the mountain seemed a logical expectation for 10,000 HZ. Instead, Air chose to jump off the mountain into a strange, forbidding ravine. You'll find neither the pure electro-pop hooks of MOON SAFARI nor the elegant, surreal majesty of VIRGIN SUICIDES here. Instead, the Air boys offer an insular record thick with ironic self-regard and tongue-in-cheek humor.
Beck is a guest here, and his voice and pomo-slacker sensibility blend right in, but for the most part, Air lets the synthesizers and vocoders take center stage. Listening to 10,000 HZ LEGEND is somewhat akin to sitting in a bar and getting hit on by an android; in fact there's actually some Barry White-style bedroom talk filtered through electronic processing early on in the album. How far you're willing to go with these Gallic pop-bots probably depends on how far they've taken you in the past.
Industry Reviews
Included in Magnet's 20 Best Albums of 2001.
Magnet (12/01/2002)
...Made of the strict artisan molecules as previous releases....LEGENDS lives for shadows...the depth and variety of the darkness beautifies the album...
CMJ (05/28/2001)
...This is rich, deep-pile music reliant on texture rather than pop smarts...
Mojo (06/01/2001)
8 out of 10 - ...Funny and ingenious...
Alternative Press (07/01/2001)
3 stars out of 5 - ...A bold, chaotic departure from MOON SAFARI's smooth lines, packed with experiments and sonic jokes...
Q (07/01/2001)
7 out of 10 - ...Their very own KID A....offering heavier arrangements, starker contrasts between soft folky orchestrations and hard prog-rock noise, more guest stars, fewer pretty tunes, and several gigabytes of robo-speak....absurd, uncanny and touching...
Spin (07/01/2001)
Ranked #14 in NME's 50 Albums Of the Year 2001.
NME (12/29/2001)
Ranked #26 in Mojo's Best [40] Albums of 2001.
Mojo (01/01/2002)
Ranked #8 in AP's 25 Best Albums of 2001.
Alternative Press (02/01/2002)
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