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Today's Shelf Pull: AIR, The Virgin Suicides Redux

Pink Light, Slow Trouble

AIR's The Virgin Suicides Redux turns soundtrack melancholy into a warm, woozy Electronic LP, with pink sleeve art and quiet menace in the grooves.

Some records feel as if they were made for the hour when a room has gone quiet but the lamps are still on. AIR's The Virgin Suicides Redux sits exactly there: pink on the sleeve, soft at the edges, and not nearly as innocent as the colour first suggests.

The catalogue identity is clean and useful: AIR, The Virgin Suicides Redux, LP, Electronic, 2025. The notes place it in the world of soundtrack albums that stand on their own, which is the important part. You do not have to carry the film in your head to hear the shape of the record.

The sleeve knows the assignment before the needle drops. It gives you a pale pink field, red title type, a half-hidden face, orange flowers, tiny hearts and a sense of beauty being watched from behind a curtain. It is pretty, but not decorative. It has that AIR trick of making unease look well dressed.

Playground Love opens the catalogue listing and still feels like the front door: slow, romantic, slightly drugged by its own atmosphere. It does not hurry to explain itself. It lets the melody stand in the room and waits for you to notice the bruise under the glow.

On the shelf today

AIR - The Virgin Suicides Redux

LP / Electronic / 2025

EUR31.95 / Available now

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