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Urb

Love 2 is a pleasurable and satisfactory record, one where every track provides just what’s needed and sets the stage for a new composition to step in and carry the beats to their finale.

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Los Angeles Times

Love 2 is not a make-out album in the traditional sense. It's about the love of silence, stillness, of being a conscious human being and watching the world float by.

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Filter

Air is as essential as ever, and has succeeded in writing another album of inspiration, tantalizing music. [Fall 2009, p.91]

musicOMH.com

Love 2 is a triumph, effectively representing a now veteran act capable of returning to its roots yet managing still to produce novel results.

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All Music Guide

Air remains a deceptively subtle band, but repeated listens to Love 2 reveal that Godin and Dunckel aren't just remaining true to their aesthetic here, but that even a smaller-scale album from the duo has plenty of wit and surprises to offer.

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Hot Press

French Smoothies return to lunar landscapes.

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The Onion (A.V. Club)

Love 2 slithers beyond its sketchiness and proves ingratiating just the same.

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Alternative Press

Air build a soundtrack to the movie in your head that always eclectic and often lovely. [Nov 2009, p.106]

No Ripcord

Love 2 is not only the latest chapter in Air’s space-rock adventure, it’s a sequel that triumphs its predecessor.

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Spin

"African Velvet"? "Eat My Beat"? Gauche titling aside, Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin offer no shake-ups on Love 2. Instead, more than a decade into their career, the duo have nearly perfected their wistfully melodic synth- and vocoder-driven easy-listening jams.

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Billboard.com

Style trumps substance in this particular breath of Air.

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Dot Music

Perhaps the less successful tracks here might have been novel and fresh 15 years ago, but interest in library music and analogue synths was piqued long ago and some of Love 2 sounds like one example of many these days.

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Rolling Stone

Air's electro-pop generally lives up to the group's name. But their fifth LP sounds a bit, well, polluted.

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Mojo

As ever, it's best to not to take them too seriously. [Nov 2009, p.90]

Q Magazine

Nothing if not consistent, Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel's sixth studio album sounds effortlessly Air-like. [Nov 2009, p.110]

The Phoenix

Like any great jingle, it leaves you with nothing but a vague craving for the product, without quite knowing why you need it.

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Slant Magazine

Consistently smooth to the point of tedium, Love 2 has the unruffled air of '50s bachelor-pad cool, often recalling Enoch Light and other space-age instrumentalists, but its overbearing electronic elements negate the organic feel it would otherwise inherit from those albums, leaving an impressively dispassionate patina with almost nothing underneath.

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Under The Radar

At a time when their former opening band (Phoenix) is gaining notoriety for their sexy blend of madcap lyricism and airtight songwriting, Air come across as flat and middling. [Fall 2009, p.56]

PopMatters

Sadly, Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel’s new love is about as ill-advised as New Coke and this makes for a cluttered, uneven, and kinda hokey listen.

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Uncut

Love 2 is a cinematic affair--but not in a good way. [Oct 2009, p.89]

Pitchfork

Thing is, it still sounds entirely like an Air album--just a remarkably bland one.

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NOW Magazine

Love 2, their sixth studio album, continues on this path, though its empty lyrics and overall cheesiness do grate.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 7.1 (out of 10) based on 10 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Dale C gave it a10:
Like all great Air, this record is not what it seems, waiting to get under your skin and into your psyche. In that respect, Love 2 is just like Moon Safari. Grumpy reviewing aside, Air has evolved in their own way and shows it with each successive release. Everything you love about Air is here just waiting for you. Just relax and hang up the crankiness.

Michael D gave it a2:
Arguably my best band, Ive grown to love their music old and new after first hearing them through their 10/10 album Talkie Walkie. However this album seems stunted and unable to find the musical depths of their previous work!!! I find it hollow, pretenscious and the biggest musical dissapointment this year!!! I give it a 2 only cause Id still fly accross australia to see them live!!!

J. A. gave it a3:
First off, I love AIR. I've loved their music since 1998. I'm a big fan of Darkel too. I'm privy to want to play devil's advocate for them. But this album... it's just, soulless fluff. A mishmash of ideas that don't congeal well, over a musical pastiche as shallow as the golden 70's font on the cover of the album. The lack of a producer this time around keeping the guys on target is unfortunately all too apparent. Every song is a meandering half idea that has no solid core, and might as well be cotton candy melting on a hot summer's sidewalk. Love 2 isn't even experimentally appreciative like 10,000 Hz Legend was. It's so simplistic it sounds like they wrote it in all of two weeks. Dunckel and Godin are simply capable of work light years beyond this fluffy dreck, and Love 2 is just a slap in the face to their fans who've waited so long for the next Talkie Walkie or Moon Safari. I expected more out of AIR and Studio Atlas. Much more. Complacency has made AIR lazy, and that's all too apparent on Love 2, a sequel to an imaginary album that thankfully wasn't even made.

Alan D gave it an8:
I think is a very nice album, much better than Pocket S. It has a little bit of Moon Safari, Virgin S, Premiers S and Talkie W....great stuff!...my only down is that i found a little bit loopy.

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