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You fly with Aeroplane once, you don’t forget it. In just three years, the Italian-Belgian duo
have established themselves as party-starting DJs, remixers du jour -with their spacious
cosmic-disco re-rerubs of Grace Jones (William’s Blood), Friendly Fires (Paris) and Sebastien
Tellier (Kilometer) - and, via their own piano-sprinkled melancholic beauties like
Caramellas, leaders of the nu-disco and Balearica scene. So Aeroplane’s debut album, We
Can’t Fly, arrives with sky-high hopes. Now that our appetites have been whetted by those
brief, tantalising excursions, what delights await us on their maiden long-haul flight?
Plenty, it turns out. Recorded in Toulouse, Paris, London and Los Angeles, We Can’t Fly (coproduced
by Bertrand Burgalat), is a grown up, dazzlingly accomplished record that
showcases not just a passion for stately, soulful disco and early 80s electronica, but a lush
and bittersweet set of influences that stretch from Abba and film soundtracks to Floyd, the
Stones and the Italian crooners that Vito Deluca’s mama played him in his Brussels youth.
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