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Love 2
Virgin
Rating: 4/5

YOU won't find celebrity collaborators here, and you won't find crazy Japanese instruments. Instead, Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin have returned to the womb-like analogue warmth of their favourite tools – Moogs and fuzzboxes, Theremins and school recorders – to create a coherent suite of mood music that is both heady and intricate, with pretty efflorescences and overpowering climaxes, but essentially utopian and optimistic. It cements their place as a kind of Franco-Kraftwerk. Opening track 'Do the Joy' sounds like the story of the proliferation of life on Earth told in a dispassionate "for mash, get Smash" robo-voice.

Download: 'Do The Joy', 'Love', 'So Light Is Her Footfall'