February 15, 2009

BvtO Album Pick: Air France - No Way Down EP

Air France
No Way Down EP


Air France are a duo from Sweden that craft simple, sweet, upbeat electronic music that can be used alternately on a dance floor or waking up in the morning.  I seem to use it more for the latter.  Particularly useful is the track "Collapsing at Your Doorstep" from the short but effective No Way Down EP, which was released in early 2008 (not actually available in the US yet).  I have found myself actually waking up with the "no...better...sorta like a dream" sample looping through my head; an equally soft and confusing way to start another day of consciousness.  So, if dreams often feel as real as life, is life also a dream?  What people do awake they also do in their sleep.  How can we prove that life isn't a dream?  Like I said, the song is effective.

Luckily, "No Excuses" is an antidote to the pedantic arm chair philosophizing caused by the previous song: a sunny beat with an optimistic melody, proposing that we should enjoy life while we've still got one to ponder about.  Fair enough.  Below you can find music videos of the above songs and I'll post others in the Becca Vs. The Octopus Radio side bar soon.

Happy dreaming!

PS: You may not be dreaming, but your brain is in a vat!



"Collapsing at Your Doorstep"


"No Excuses"

2 comments:

dub said...

Long time reader, first time poster. I enjoyed your colorful review of the Air France EP Now Way Down. I find myself listening to their early EP On Trade Winds right afterwards and thinking they could be one album. Cheers.

Anonymous said...

At first the kids voices creeped me out, but in the end it works. Now it just chris that's creepy... Thanks for the review...
Dylan