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We Can't Fly

Aeroplane

2009

We Can't Fly

Release Date:  2009

By Pitchfork

Reviewed June 19, 2010

So you're a production duo from Belgium, and you've named your dance-music-making outfit Aeroplane, and then you call your new single "We Can't Fly"? It's kind of like if Liars decided to call their next record Nothing But the Truth, but hey, you can get away with a lot when the track in question is this good. Forget flirting with Balearic bounce-- "We Can't Fly" sounds like it's been sunning in Ibiza for months, with squelching bass, strobed synths, and guitar stabs so beachy you can practically smell the sea salt. It's not all sun and sand, though-- at the core of "We Can't Fly" is a big, beating disco heart, as a diva's repetition of the title phrase and swooping gangland calls rain down like an endless shower of glitter. Aeroplane can indeed fly, and this is the sound of them streaking across the sky.

[from the "We Can't Fly" single; out 07/05/10 on Wall of Sound]

8:00 PM · Jun 19, 2010 · 1 Views