oh yeah
― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 9 April 2016 01:16 (eight years ago) link
the susanne sundfør track sounds like bonnie raitt in space, which is my aesthetic
aww
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 April 2016 01:26 (eight years ago) link
It took me a while to put my finger on who Laser Gun reminded me of, figured it was Annie, i'm relieved.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 10 April 2016 22:46 (eight years ago) link
This sounds like ELO + 10000Hz Legend-era Air, which is totally fine by me.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 10 April 2016 23:00 (eight years ago) link
Holy shit! Need to listen to this then. ELO + my fave Air album?! Hell yes.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 11 April 2016 00:22 (eight years ago) link
the susanne sundfør track sounds like bonnie raitt in space
I can't ever listen to this song now because there's no way it will really live up to that description.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 11 April 2016 03:26 (eight years ago) link
I had tuned out after Sat.=Youth and I'm now pretty baffled to see where M83's at these days. Poster upthread OTM re. french wedding songs. A couple of tunes are definitely pastiche of 80's French Top 40 (eg Etienne Daho).
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 11 April 2016 11:00 (eight years ago) link
Glad to see some 10,0000Hz the Legend love.
― draxx them sklounst (dog latin), Monday, 11 April 2016 11:01 (eight years ago) link
this was always my favorite french bonnie raitt in space track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsyGKD-G3I0
― scott seward, Monday, 11 April 2016 12:48 (eight years ago) link
I will allow that "Bibi the Dog" is kind of terrible. The line is pretty thin with stuff like this.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 11 April 2016 15:42 (eight years ago) link
Ah no this is great! Not sure about the ELO/Air comparison but more like Daft Punk if they had done the last one right ( yeah. I wasn't a fan) with extra cheese and neon.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 11 April 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKmv0Z0WsAU-IZ0.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 April 2016 17:41 (eight years ago) link
I am 15 seconds into this and my initial reaction is that I do not listen to M83 for this
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Monday, 11 April 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, file under the category of "You know that thing we do well that you like so much? Well, we're not going to do it, nyah!"
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 April 2016 17:45 (eight years ago) link
Change Is Good! Change Is Good!
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 11 April 2016 17:48 (eight years ago) link
not always
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Monday, 11 April 2016 17:49 (eight years ago) link
Maybe if you're David Bowie or Bob Dylan, and even they could suck for a decade straight.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 April 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link
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the first three songs sound to me like Cut Copy doing a good impersonation of the terrible Air songs
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Monday, 11 April 2016 17:52 (eight years ago) link
Nothing to dispel the impression that M83 is a total hack who's lucked out with a couple of pretty epics (Couleurs/that 'to die with the sun' one)?
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 11 April 2016 18:07 (eight years ago) link
I'm liking this a lot. After five years of struggling to feel anything about Hurry Up We're Dreaming, it's nice to have an M83 album I can enjoy on my own terms.
― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Monday, 11 April 2016 19:58 (eight years ago) link
Enjoyed a few songs on the 2nd half of the album. Many I couldn't finish - they annoyed me that much. Unfortunate record.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 08:35 (eight years ago) link
Nothing to dispel the impression that M83 is a total hack who's lucked out with a couple of pretty epics (Couleurs/that 'to die with the sun' one)?― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), lundi 11 avril 2016 20:07
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), lundi 11 avril 2016 20:07
I totally agree with this. I liked some tracks on "Sat=Youth" but almost everything else I have heard from that guy was not only bad but horrible to me !I was curious following the first reviews and have given this new album a try and it's... vile.
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 10:21 (eight years ago) link
GREAT record. I've been listening to the first track over and over.
Also,
a total hack who's lucked out with a couple of pretty epics
Someone who can make pretty epics isn't a *total* hack though, right?
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 17:34 (eight years ago) link
imo the last album felt like a gorgeous environment that housed maybe three total songs. this feels like the inverse of that
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 17:56 (eight years ago) link
I love the first few m83 albums, and Midnight City seemed like an excellent pop fluke. i wouldn't call this guy a hack; I think he got more lucky than expected recently though.
― akm, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 19:31 (eight years ago) link
And when you get lucky, you end up producing an album full of French wedding music.
Or a Loverboy album.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 19:34 (eight years ago) link
There is a certain type of Breakfast Club-inspired melodrama that M83 excels at; the further they move away from that, the less I like them.
caveat: I only started paying attention circa Saturdays = Youth and that's very clearly my favorite out of what I've heard
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 19:45 (eight years ago) link
i used to like their videos. in that smiths/belle & sebastian kinda way. like they had a pretty well thought-out aesthetic.
the stuff i've heard from this sounds like 80's retro from like 5 or 10 years ago. from france.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 20:18 (eight years ago) link
I kept thinking of Sebastien Tellier when I was listening to Junk. He did this kind of thing a whole lot better on Sexuality and My God Is Blue. I do like some of M83's previous albums, especially Saturdays = Youth but Gonzalez is nowhere near the songwriter that Tellier is.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 21:21 (eight years ago) link
I love the Tatu vibe emanating from "Go!". What a beautiful plastic euphoric vibe. If this is the sound of a hack then i can't wait to hear what else he comes up with.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 14:03 (eight years ago) link
Also - i grew up watching TV in the 80s and I really am not hearing these sit-com music signifiers all the critics are going on about.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 14:05 (eight years ago) link
Most of the sitcom signifiers come from Moon Crystal, which to me sounds more like a cross between Bill Withers' Lovely Day and the Hill Street Blues theme.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 14:20 (eight years ago) link
my initial reaction is that I do not listen to M83 for this
pretty much my first thought.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link
I like "Moon Crystal"
― ejemplo (crüt), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 18:24 (eight years ago) link
Tellier comparison is OTM, and weirdly the songs sung in French are among the better ones. "Moon Crystal" is also VG. I have a feeling if I caned this album, I'd grow to love it. Not sure yet if I want to give it the necessary time though.
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 22:20 (eight years ago) link
critics are mentioning "sitcom signifiers" bc anthony gonzalez explicitly referenced "80s sitcoms" as an inspiration
― jaymc, Saturday, 16 April 2016 04:28 (eight years ago) link
I like this album a lot more than his previous stuff. Just checked to see if anyone had made comparisons between this album and that disappointing Aeroplane album from a few years ago, and they had, and it was me in 2012. This is a better proposition but you can tell both bands had listened to a lot of shitty French marriage songs.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 10:50 (eight years ago) link
For the Kids > Solitude > The Wizard is such a great run of songs.
― Ys Man a.k.a. Have One on G (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 17:49 (eight years ago) link
So ... mission successful and no one really gives a shit about this album? Or is this on heavy rotation in the world's last remaining record stores?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 20:10 (eight years ago) link
This, Radiohead and latest Autechre my fave new album listens at the moment
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 20:16 (eight years ago) link
lately I've been wondering if the Diplo dolphin sound was actually invented by M83 on Midnight City
― niels, Friday, 16 February 2018 07:21 (six years ago) link
i kind of gave up on m83 after dead cities but there is a local college radio DJ who plays a lot of m83 during her sets and every time i listen it sounds so good
― marcos, Thursday, 15 March 2018 17:54 (six years ago) link
saturdays will always be classic, "Coleurs" is a huge stand-out
― kolakube (Ross), Thursday, 15 March 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
yes i will always look back upon that album fondly
― dyl, Thursday, 15 March 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
this track from junk is tops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs3Wki_uYzQ
― kolakube (Ross), Friday, 16 March 2018 02:03 (six years ago) link
Coleurs takes a simple idea (every four cycles, add in an extra element, repeat for a long time), and does it to perfection. Wish the rest of the album was even half as good.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 26 March 2018 06:05 (six years ago) link
Their big single sucks, you know.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 June 2018 04:46 (six years ago) link
it was a weird single choice, both Claudia Lewis and Steve McQueen are so much better!
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 11 June 2018 04:53 (six years ago) link
come on now, that is a great single, lyrics are innocuous and since when is there anything wrong with a sax solo? I remember when it came out, it was exhilerating!
― niels, Monday, 11 June 2018 06:30 (six years ago) link