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Air - Once Upon A Time (Virgin)
UK release date: 12 March 2007
Air - Once Upon A Time

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Euro electronics for the taxi ride home? Must be Air back again, then. Taken from their fourth album Pocket Symphony, Once Upon A Time is less chilled than some of their previous output, a chase through the forest under glitterpop stars, a darting run away from a deer that's been startled by the lights of the secret rave.

Air conjure up these kind of images, hypnotic and alluring, helped on this single by the addition of a Shamisen, a kind of Japanese classical sitar which, along with haunting woodwind, adds an Oriental air to the European beats.

The result is ethereal and frantic, the aural equivalent of knowing you're being watched but not from where. Classic and classical, they make the kind of midnight music that makes staying up all night more than worthwhile.

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