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I liked this one, but thought it was a bit OTT at times. Review at Stylus sometime this week. It's still good, mind.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 24 January 2005 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

There aren't any samples on this one, Ned - they hired an actress to perform dialogue Gonzalez' brother wrote specially for the record.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 24 January 2005 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm... I've listened to this once now and I'm on second listen. I like it but I can never quite pinpoint what M83 are supposed to, like "be". Are those voice samples necessary? Are they good? Are they annoying and naff? Does it sound too much like GSYBE? Why does the music look nothing like the cover?

Better than the last album though.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 30 January 2005 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

well... if the cover is that picture of the buildings at night, i think the music sounds a lot like that picture looks... though the font that m83 is written in is all wrong.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Sunday, 30 January 2005 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

the music makes me think of crepuscular forests and night time creatures, not big cities.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 30 January 2005 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

There aren't any samples on this one, Ned - they hired an actress to perform dialogue Gonzalez' brother wrote specially for the record.

Brilliant. Now I *really* like them.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 30 January 2005 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe it's to do with the fact that the first time i listened to this album i was looking through the photo book _neon tigers_, which has peter bialobrzeski's crazily futuristic-but-modern looking photos of various asian (non-tokyo) metropolises (metropoli?)... and was then fairly surprised to see the cover photo a few weeks later.

i don't know though because bits of the album sound like the score to blade runner too, so...

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 31 January 2005 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

hmmm i have the opposite problem as pitchfork: i want more vangelis and less MBV. this album definitely has more journey but maybe even more MBV than last time around. anyway i was hoping i'd like this one more - i think some of the drum fills kind of kill some of the tracks for me.

but the 1st and 3rd track are 100% epic.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 31 January 2005 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

spoken word parts made me cringe.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 31 January 2005 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

they're sort of cool but crap. reminds me of mid-nineties hard techno.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 31 January 2005 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

the spoken word parts, that is.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 31 January 2005 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the spoken word parts because they're not awesome enough to remember. With no original source material, no one is going to feel really clever by knowing the source. I think the cover works since I get some sort of trashy-glam city vibe off of a few songs.

― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 31 January 2005 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

spoken word parts made me cringe.

Yeah, there was something kind of cringeworthy about them. I liked the album, though.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Monday, 31 January 2005 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

M83, kinda blahhhhhhhhhhhh

― owen reading, Monday, 31 January 2005 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i love this album. sounds to me like the kind of music that would play at the moment of a violent death...

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 31 January 2005 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

...like YOURS!

*distant cries in the night*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 January 2005 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

well... it probably would be mine, actually... it's car accident music. though i'd do everything i could to avoid it obviously.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 31 January 2005 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Are there more spoken word parts aside from the car crash song? Can't remember.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 January 2005 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i think there's 2 if memory serves... i don't dislike them as much as everyone else. i think they make sense.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 31 January 2005 05:27 (twenty-one years ago)

This is going to come out before the shop gets my order for the last album in, at this rate. grrrrr.

― haitch, man? (haitch), Monday, 31 January 2005 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to have to listen to this again, I suppose. The first couple of times I liked it so much less than Cities/Seas/Ghosts -- it wasn't urgent enough -- that I haven't been tempted to put it on since.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 31 January 2005 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)

it wasn't urgent enough

An interesting comparison. Cities etc. struck me as well-meaning but ultimately dull on record, this in contrast actually feels *alive* for lack of a better term.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 January 2005 05:55 (twenty-one years ago)

this record really does feel hymnal and apocalyptic in some futuristic way that sounds silly written down but is amazing. it fills me with a serious melancholy and hope. it kind of makes me want to slit my wrists if i get happy enough not to need to live anymore. but that doesn't make any sense, i guess.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 31 January 2005 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

An interesting comparison. Cities etc. struck me as well-meaning but ultimately dull on record, this in contrast actually feels *alive* for lack of a better term.

I think that's the only thing that bugs me about them really - a lot of this and the last album seems very, well... "by numbers"(?). Boards of Canada, and even bands like Autechre manage to make their music sound like it was composed by human beans but this seems very sequenced and automatic.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 31 January 2005 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Boards of Canada sound like a human bean has never been NEAR their music, that's what makes them gr8 you mental!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 31 January 2005 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i've just picked up "before the dawn ..." and am listening to it now for the first time. i'm three songs in; if it gets any better i will have exploded before the end. this is the music i hear in my dreams.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 6 February 2005 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

heh, actually i didn't like that fourth track as much. it's brought me back down to earth slightly.

still. i fucking love this. and firstworldman, no, that makes absolutely perfect sense.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 6 February 2005 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone heard everyone's favourite German, Aksel Schaufler's lovely remix of "Don't Save Us From The Flames"???

It's lovely, though the original may be even better.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 6 February 2005 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

if this isn't my album of the year, i'll eat mrs fiendish's hat.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 6 February 2005 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"Farewell/Goodbye" sounds like the Cocteau Twins crossed with some Francis Lai romantic soundtrack song, originally composed in French but translated for the American release in 1966 or something!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I am not so sure about the rest of the record, it's so ecstatic but reminds me of Ulrich Schnauss and stuff, kind of neutral sounding in places.

Don't Save Us From The Flames and the Superpitcher remix of same are still ace though.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"Teen Angst" is at least as good as "Don't Save Us from the Flames". Actually I think the "ecstatic" element is exactly what's missing from the Ulrich Schnauss stuff (and from Shoegaze and laptop gaze in general).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I will give it a few more listens just the same!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i just find this album very average and boring compared to the last one. I don't know....

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's an improvement on virtually every level - except that I don't think there's a single track as powerful as "Run Into Flowers". The sum of it though is overwhelming.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Also listening to "A Guitar and a Heart" at full CD quality and in the context of the previous track completely removes the cheese factor for me.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

there is a superpitcher remix of m83?
online anywhere?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a cd promo, I'll bring it home next time I'm in work and burn/gmail!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's an improvement on virtually every level

Very much agreed. This is a massive step up and I'm glad -- they had potential but I don't think it was reached fully until now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

please do, ronan! i have been longing for more of what i can imagine superpitcher would do with this... is it a bit like his mfa remix?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Take out "Farewell/Goodbye" and "Can't Stop" and that's a nearly flawless album.

― Matt Chesnut, Monday, 7 February 2005 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Like I just said, "Farewell/Goodbye" is amazing. It's like "Autumn Leaves" or something!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

mere words cannot express how much i love this album. i can't even begin to articulate it. i'm still stunned.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

firstworldman, it's more like something like Heroin, quite fast and with a big rocky bassline through it, he cuts up the vocals like the MFA remix. It's not as amazing as that one but it's still really nice.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm picking up my 2xLP copy tomorrow night; i'm hoping they'll have a clutch of the remix 12"s too.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Apologies in advance if this too cute but I'm taking my five-year old to daycare this morning. As 'Run Into Flowers' begins playing the same chords over and over he says, "Dad, when is the song going to start?" Then when the throbbing keyboard part plays before the strings and vocals he comments, "Dad I think there's something wrong with this CD."

Still a great song though.

― righteousmaelstrom, Thursday, 10 February 2005 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

this record really is fantastic... the first two months of the year have been pretty damn decent for music in general.

― t0dd swiss, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

yay! they're playing here supporting the secret machine. I might finally get round to getting their records after the show...

― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Anyone know the lyrics from "Run Into Flowers"? I can't remember if it's in the booklet and I don't have it here at the office.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 25 April 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Let's run,
Let's run,
Let's run into flowers.

It'll be fun,
It'll be fun,
It'll be fun when we run into flowers.

(repeat)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

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