Music luxury in luxury packaging

PROLOGUE: Angels & Airwaves are one of the few bands that have delivered me from the Recyle- and retro tedium of yet probably most desolate half-decade in pop history. Americans to Tom Delonge are visionary enough between all the trivialized David Guetta Fairground techno stuff on one side and the Amy Adele Sixties wave on the other side to position their own thing. Rock'n Roll-post-punk meets all its own sounding sample grooves, combined with an almost reminiscent of prog rock bands scale synth bliss. That does not always work very seamlessly and sometimes follows a repeating pattern, but each has own A & A for-work deserves five stars. Perhaps "I-Empire", the date still most coherent album, however, is present here "Love Pt.1 & Pt.2" (plus "Love" movie in the beautifully packaged luxury edition) a whole corner of ambitious and courageous because a few smaller hangers are absolutely forgivable.

Body: Not so easy to keep track of this double album. "Pt.1" already nearly two years is available as download version and is now finally as a CD full 44kHz splendor before, to eleven new songs come on part 2 and a DVD of the same name adding film which though less with A & A and their music has to do, as it suggested that years of policy announcement.

And so and the first "real" song, "The Flight of Apollo" (according to the beautiful intro "Et ducit ...") for me one of the strongest A & A Title remains at all. An extremely powerful verse theme alternates with a wonderful slowed-melodic chorus, the finals then drives only forward. "Young London" I do not really to schrubbig, but if you so skillfully incorporating hard rock riffs of the old school, which is again unique. "Shove" and especially "Epic Holiday" with the soundtrack intro should have had hit potential, "Hallucinations" grants us arpeggio runs of the Keys, as they hardly heard. Track 7 and 8 belong together somehow and show the whole spherical imagination of A & A: After balladesque first two-thirds of an almost progrockiger break; "The Moon Atomic" bubbling and schrabbelt seamlessly with "Clever Love" into it, perhaps the bottom line is the weakest track. "Soul Survivor" and "Letters to God, Part II" warm each with epic chorus before "Some Origins of Fire" Part one decides in the most beautiful: a gorgeous facility arranged intro and a guitar delay geschwängerte (:-)) powerful verse in the lead to die for beautiful chorus "We all are love and love is hard". And then something happened: Tom Delonge discovered in a short, very soft vocal Bridge almost the Soul - and then leaves an unusual for A & A guitar solo room until much too fast Fade Out.

But that was only half. Second CD, second helping of "love": "Saturday Love" follows the tried and tested pattern of mighty intro and faster stanza with the echo guitars, making for me with "Surrender" and "Anxiety" an anthemic three-unit, "Anxiety" with the best melodic invasions convinced. Nevertheless, this initial trilogy sounds sometimes a bit superficial, remains among the possibilities. "My Heroine" then takes on a strong way, two courses out, others might be happy as a "ballad" hinzubekommen. "Moon as my witness" actually fits better to the character of the first part, again the very own samples, but then leads to snare vertebrae and uplifting riffs not in the expected song outbreak, but astray: suddenly there's just under two minutes of pure Weltraumatmo (again proven A & A-trick), which serves as an intro for the next song, in this case, "Dry Your Eyes". Two keeps appearing, awesome inappropriate guitar notes give this PowerSong a new, oblique painting. "The Revelator" lives by driving bass effect, "One Last Thing" fits quickly and guitar emphasized good to be a little "Blink" shines through here. "Inertia" is therefore very innovative: this time Seventies rock riffs are combined (somewhere between "Sweet" and "Deep Purple"!) With almost atonal synth lines. "Behold a Pale Horse" makes powerful high spirits, there is roaring, and rifft drummt only so, please turn up! If the final track. With just over five and a half minutes of the longest and perhaps (?!) The most beautiful on "Pt.2". "All that we are" met almost all my hopes on an A & O Evolution: more peace in song structure, (even) more soul in song and more groove. The (very relevant song) guitar solo on heavy drums has room and space and is not just delays.

EPILOGUE: 22 songs, none of which is weakening properly and create a very unique style of music. Texts that (of course) of love in the broadest sense to act, are not always properly palpable and it suitable for many situations. A kind of modern concept album, although there is no continuous story told, it all depends on the content together and go some of the songs, "as it was" quite classic one another.

And there would still be the film. Visually brilliant, thematically very malleable and may not always comprehensible. A festival film precisely. However, with surprisingly little A & O Soundtrack. Sometimes you can hear here and there out a modified title of the album. But if I'm honest, I'm in "Love" especially to the music to the songs. Unfortunately we have to wait a while to the next album with so busy musicians well again. Then with the new drummer Ilan Rubin. Many cry indeed the departure of ex-drummer "Atom" a tear behind which actually plays very charismatic, even if he has something to often tumbled rock'n'roll for my taste. Perhaps the sequel brings here so in the truest sense a new note a.