This summer, Brooklyn girl/boy duo XENO & OAKLANDER bring their minimal electronic sounds to Ghostly International with new album "Par Avion", their first for the label. The album's title is a reference to postcards - it translates as "by plane", and was used to mark airmail sent from exotic places. The songs are postcards of love for a cold age - shimmering moments from the present, romantic messages from the past, and love mementos for the future. Together, they make up an album of contrasts - the songs move from upbeat to downbeat, slow to fast, light to dark. Wendelbo's whispery vocals are sung in both French and English, calling to mind Jane Birkin and Françoise Hardy. Again, there's a contrast between dark and light - the alluring, tropical warmth of Wendelbo's vocals is juxtaposed against duo's signature icy cold, ultra-modern synth sounds. Those sounds have a new component for Par Avion - synth wizard Sean McBride uses an analogue Serge modular synth to create washes of sound that recall '90s shoegaze. The result is an album that stimulates and fascinates throughout, a rich feast for all the senses, a world to get lost in again and again.