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...French electronic duo Air, who played Avalon on Monday, we find something truly sexy—a band broad enough to encompass the sadness and the ecstasy of it all. They are smart enough to realize that sex is as much about anticipation as stimulation, that it involves not only the heat of the act itself but also the chill of waking up to find yourself alone in the morning. They show why Britney and Christina, for all their gyrating, are still just Mouseketeers...
...would be easy to write Air off as an easy listening duo—Robert Christgau once wrote of the band that he “remembers when easy listening was worth hating”—and it would seem that the duo themselves are not exempt from making this mistake. The line between ironic kitsch and muzack can be a thin one, and at times on Monday Air began to sound more like intermission than the feature presentation...
Putting on their metaphorical robot masks for a moment to channel that other French electronic duo, Daft Punk, Air turned “Sexy Boy” and “Kelly Watch the Stars” into pure synth euphoria, gleefully eradicating all remaining humanity in their music to thrilling effect...
...month later, the newly formed duo made their first move in Kirby’s letter to FAS, announcing the review’s official beginning and ushering in a “year for thought, discussion [and] reflection” on the foundations of undergraduate education at Harvard...
...asked Green to help with the meeting, and after about 25 phone calls and 10 e-mails, the duo had rounded up a sizeable crowd in Schmidt’s Eliot House dorm room...