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'The Virgin Suicides' Is The Perfect Quarantine Soundtrack

Leslie Hayman, Kirsten Dunst, A.J. Cook and Chelse Swain as the enigmatic Lisbon sisters in Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides. Courtesy of The Criterion Collection hide caption

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'The Virgin Suicides' Is The Perfect Quarantine Soundtrack

The film's dreamlike score, by the French duo Air, sounds the way high school feels: frustrated, isolated, fearful and hopeful all at once. Under social distancing, it's not hard to relate.

Air On World Cafe

Le Voyage Dans La Lune is AIR's seventh release, written as a soundtrack for a re-release of the 1902 Georges Méliès film of the same name. Wendy Bevan/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Air On World Cafe

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The French duo discusses its soundtrack to the 1902 silent film Le Voyage Dans La Lune.

Air On World Cafe

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First Listen: Air, 'Le Voyage Dans La Lune'

Air's new album, Le Voyage Dans La Lune, comes out Feb. 7. Wendy Bevan/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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First Listen: Air, 'Le Voyage Dans La Lune'

Commissioned in conjunction with the priceless restoration of the groundbreaking 1902 science-fiction film of the same name, Le Voyage Dans La Lune provides a springily modern supplement to a work of massive historical import.

Hear ‘Le Voyage Dans La Lune’ In Its Entirety

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French Duo Air's U.S. Success Story

Day to Day's Rob Sachs profiles the French electronic music duo Air, how they broke into the American music scene and how their success is helping other French music acts to get airplay across the Atlantic.

French Duo Air's U.S. Success Story

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