Length 58:23 (CD)
41:46 (LP) Release date 15 March 2007 Genre Dark ambient | Artist David Lynch Label Strange World Music | |
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Released March 15, 2007 (2007-03-15) The Air Is on Fire
(2007) David Lynch's Inland Empire Soundtrack
(2007) Similar David Lynch albums, Other albums | ||
David lynch the air is on fire full album
The Air Is on Fire is a soundtrack album by the American director and musician David Lynch. It was released on March 15, 2007 on Strange World Music. The soundtrack was composed by Lynch and collaborator Dean Hurley and accompanied Lynch's exhibition of paintings, photographs and drawings of the same name at Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris, France in 2007.
Contents
Originally issued on CD, a limited-edition LP of The Air Is on Fire was released in April 2014 on Sacred Bones Records as part of Record Store Day. The LP was limited to 2,000 copies.
Composition
In an interview on Arte Radio in 2007, Dean Hurley used various phrases to describe The Air Is on Fire's sound, including "a large flashbulb paparazzi sound", "short drum machine phrases", "brief phrases of machines working", "dubbed industrial hip hop", "characteristic winds", "punch-presses pitched down", "train mechanisms and large steel-factory samples" and "metal structures that were welded together."
Reception
Writing for Pitchfork, critic Marc Masters gave The Air Is on Fire a positive review. Masters drew comparisons between the album's sound and the styles of Demdike Stare and the Haxan Cloak and said that "even at its densest, The Air Is on Fire is pretty simple sonically, which gives it a universal tone. It's not about cutting-edge techniques or never-heard-before concoctions. It's about using sound to tell a wordless story and evoke undefined emotions. On those counts, it succeeds thoroughly."
Track listing
All music composed by David Lynch and Dean Hurley.
Personnel
All personnel credits adapted from The Air Is on Fire's album notes.
Songs
1Station12:40
2Porticos6:51
3Grey3:10