Air

Twenty years after their international debut, French multi-platinum selling band Air will release their first anthology album ‘Twentyears’ on 10 June. Air - Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel – have personally selected the core ‘Best Of’ tracklisting which features on all of the album’s various formats. The album will initially be available on double CD, double LP and digital formats and a limited and numbered Super Deluxe Edition will follow on 22 July. It compiles the original format’s double CD and double LP with a third CD which features Air’s remixes for artists including David Bowie, Beck, Depeche Mode and Neneh Cherry, as well as an exclusive collector’s poster.

‘Twentyyears’ features essential selections from the Air discography, including ‘Sexy Boy’, ‘Kelly Watch The Stars’, ‘Playground Love’, ‘Cherry Blossom Girl’ and ‘Le soleil est près de moi’. It also includes studio album tracks from ‘Premiers symptômes’ (1997), ‘Moon Safari’ (1998), ‘The Virgin Suicides’ (2000), ‘10 000 Hz Legend’ (2001), ‘Talkie Walkie’ (2004) and ‘Le voyage dans la Lune’ (2012).

Available on CD and digital formats, the second disc of the collection gathers 14 rare and unreleased tracks. Highlights include ‘Crickets’ and ‘The Way You Look Tonight’ from the ‘Pocket Symphony’ and ‘10 000 Hz Legend’ sessions; ’Adis  Abebah’ from the ‘Quartier lointain’ soundtrack; ‘Roger Song’, written for ‘Corman’s World’, a documentary about cult B-movie director Roger Corman; ‘Land Me’, taken from the vinyl-only ‘Music For Museum’ release in 2014; and ‘The Duelist’ which was performed by Charlotte Gainsbourg and Jarvis Cocker during the ‘Pocket Symphony’ recording.

Air will start a new worldwide tour on 20 May. It features UK festival dates at Field Day (12 June), Blue Dot (23 July)and Secret Garden Party (24 July).

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