Air - The Virgin Suicides Redux

AIR — The Virgin Suicides Redux

2CD + 1Blu-ray Multi-Format Box Set!

Includes new 2025 analog mix and Dolby Atmos mix of the album

Plus previously unheard rarities and demos

The Virgin Suicides, AIR's second album and the evocative soundtrack to Sofia Coppola's directorial debut is reissued as The Virgin Suicides Redux for its 25th anniversary. A brand-new analogic mix of the original album deepens and updates the haunting and beautiful soundscapes that have only grown in stature over the years, much like the cult classic film it accompanies. The Virgin Suicides Redux is available as a full analog vinyl album and as a 2CD/Blu-ray digipack comprised of the new 2025 analog mix, a spatial audio (Dolby Atmos) Blu-Ray of the album alongside a selection of previously unheard rarities and demos.

"We did The Virgin Suicides really quickly at the time. We made the album in 1999 on a very low budget. It was during the first era of digital home studio equipment, and the sound is very metallic and cold. We've always regretted that about the way it sounds. (The Virgin Suicides Redux) was about pushing the sound deeper in spirit and atmosphere. So we've remixed it to make it into something warmer, more organic. It's a renaissance, it's a rebirth. It's like it was in artificial light before, now it's in natural light. It's the way it should have been." — AIR

To mark its 25th anniversary, The Virgin Suicides will be reissued as a new edition entitled The Virgin Suicides Redux. This edition features an all-analog mix of the album produced by ‘Alf' Briat and AIR in April 2025. The 2CD/Blu-ray features The Virgin Suicides Redux (CD1), a selection of demo & rarities (CD2), the original 2025 album in Dolby Atmos and the video clip of "Playground Love" (Blu-ray disc).

Twenty-five years ago, AIR released their second album, The Virgin Suicides. With more than 2 million copies sold worldwide since its release, the first soundtrack by the electronic duo of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel is as famous today as Sofia Coppola's first feature film.

In 2001, The Virgin Suicides won a Victoire de la Musique award and was nominated for a Brit Award in the Best Film Soundtrack category. In 2014, the album was ranked 11th among the best soundtracks of all time by NME, and in 2019 Pitchfork ranked it fourth in its list of the 50 best soundtracks of all time. In 2024, "Playground Love" was performed at the closing ceremony of the Paris Summer Olympics by AIR. The performance featured Thomas Mars, lead singer of the band Phoenix, a.k.a Gordon Tracks in the original album credits.

 

The Virgin Suicides Redux - CD 1

1. Playground Love (with Gordon Tracks)

2. Cloud Up

3. Bathroom Girl

4. Cemetary Party

5. Dark Messages

6. The World Hurricane

7. Dirty Trip

8. Highschool Lover

9. Afternoon Sister

10. Ghost Song

11. Empty House

12. Dead Bodies

13. Suicide Underground

The Virgin Suicides - Demos & Rarities - CD 2

1. Playground Love (Demo Strings)

2. Bathroom Girl (Demo 2)

3. Playground Love (Vocoder)

4. Cloud Up (Demo)

5. Suicide Underground (Demo)

6. Nosferatu (Remix by the Flower Pistols)

7. Dead Bodies (Demo)

8. Virgin Suicides (Demo)

9. Highschool Prom Playground Love (Rob Remix)

The Virgin Suicides Redux - Blu-Ray

1. Playground Love (with Gordon Tracks)

2. Cloud Up

3. Bathroom Girl

4. Cemetary Party

5. Dark Messages

6. The World Hurricane

7. Dirty Trip

8. Highschool Lover

9. Afternoon Sister

10. Ghost Song

11. Empty House

12. Dead Bodies

13. Suicide Underground

Be the first to write a review for this item OR just rate it