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this is a great record, except whenever i listen to it, i don't like it much

didn't vote for it but support it - "we own the night" is my jam

I guess I am a hopeless obscurantist because I haven't heard a lot of these higher placing ones, I think I would like Santogold and hate Fleet Foxes. The Dream sounds too glossy for me, M83 never did much but maybe I shoudl reinvestigate.

Can't check out the videos b/c I am on a ridiculous slow 3rd world computer right now.

"Kim and Jessie"

"Graveyard Girl"

Loved 'Kim & Jessie', the rest I could take or leave, but mostly leave. Will have to revisit it to see if it clicks this time.

kim and jessie, you really can't fuck w/ that song

2008: The Year Indie-Friendly Electodribble Broke (On ILM)

my trolldometer is so broken

first banana republic, then the world

"Kim & Jessie" is kind of a jam, huh?

This sound is much better for them:

"kim and jesse" is one of the better tracks. as mentioned, so is "we own the sky"

other M83 that is +

"don't save us from the flames" is kind of untoppable tho

Jeez, sounds like Air trying to play Bruce Springsteen songs.

Yeah, of the two singles that people seem to talk about, "Graveyard Girl" has always seemed a little superficial in its pleasures, a little too Sofia Coppola end-credits maybe, but "Kim & Jessie" is really great.

Jeez, sounds like Air trying to play Bruce Springsteen songs.

Given that I only just recently discovered that, total aversion to "Sexy Boy" aside, I really like Air, that is kind of a huge endorsement for me.

The singles are my least favorite songs in the album, actually.

i feel like i should like "graveyard girl" and "don't save us from the flames", opening moments and basic sound are fantastic, but they don't do anything for me once i absorb the general gist. the preserved-in-amber vibe is clearly intentional, but it kills the songs dead, afaic

I'll pimp this again. I edited the annoying spoken part of "Graveyard Girl" out and it really makes it a better song.

http://www.box.net/shared/ap3d0djsvy

so I can extrapolate the Cut Copy is gonna do well here, right?

also "Skin of the Night" is giving me massive Cocteaus vibes, mmmmm

cut copy might be top 3

looots of praise in that theard iirc

skin of the night is the best track, along with couleurs

also "Skin of the Night" is giving me massive Cocteaus vibes, mmmmm

YES!

yeah i said it on another thread but M83 sort of freaks me out because it sounds *really* 80s like how stuff in the 80s actually sounded, not like how bands like Interpol or something are supposed to sound like the 80s but really don't at all....like that "kim and jessie" song is on some, man, i dunno Glass Tiger shit or something...all that stuff sort of makes me feel weird cuz it reminds me of being a little kid and stuff...seems poignant for no reason.

"Couleurs"

omg there's a 9 and a half-minute version

omg I can totally imagine Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy running into each other's arms from across a football field to "Graveyard Girl". It's like all of the best parts of Echo & the Bunnymen and The Psychedelic Furs stuck together.

what's with the covert mbv refs in the instrumental sounds?

M@tt is totally OTM; if I didn't know any better I would think half of what I've heard so far was directly off the "Some Kind Of Wonderful" soundtrack.

not that i'm much bothered, just heard a rip

(JAMC is the other band I hear in "Graveyard Girl".)

omg there's a 9 and a half-minute version

It actually has about 1-1/2 min of silence at the end, go figure.

Enjoying the HI DERE liveblog -- keep it up!

It's so eighties I can see why Grimly likes it so much. Not for me though.

"Coleurs" seems like someone trying to do a cover of "The Perfect Kiss" but only on Prince's synths and with Siouxsie & the Banshee's guitars.

fuck me this is total "pander to Dan Perry" music

nowt to do with electrodribble

Why'd you avoid it all year, Dan?

what's with the covert mbv refs in the instrumental sounds?

― HI DERE

M@tt is totally OTM; if I didn't know any better I would think half of what I've heard so far was directly off the "Some Kind Of Wonderful" soundtrack.

― HI DERE

this is key for me, along with m@tt's comment. it IS an almost terrifyingly perfect replication, but like HD sez, there's something blurry in there too. which makes it more accurate, somehow, like it's not just "the past", it's "remembering the past", accurately yet imperfectly. like looking at old polaroids of yr. childhood: the image is true but hazed over, and intrinsically kinda sad/lost, even if the moments captured are happy ones.

all this seems obv, in that it's obv what they're going for, and a cool idea, but still, the weird corpselike inertness of the whole project. so cold.

oops, first quote from whatever

That's a pretty perfectly worded manifestation of my own feelings about the record. Thanks!

I don't know! It never even showed up on my radar. Probably I looked at the band name some time ago and went "oh anonymous wannabe retro-rock indie band" and never followed up.

These guys are striking me like a indie-pop version of Boards of Canada.

omg I can totally imagine Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy running into each other's arms from across a football field to "Graveyard Girl". It's like all of the best parts of Echo & the Bunnymen and The Psychedelic Furs stuck together.

OK now I am intrigued.

xpost to contenderizer

yeah that's it.

like the album sounds like a sunbeam coming through your window and you can see the little dust floating in it.

^ !!! OTM

M83 ain't got squat on Ulrich Schnauss' best stuff fwiw

Contrarian

Dan, here's the two singles from their previous album, 2005 or thereabouts:

"Don't Save Us from the Flames"

"Teen Angst"

@condenderizer (xxxxxxxxxxxxpst): fwiw i'm hearing it for 1st time. tk3 skin of the night female vocals very kate bush. but is it so bad that there's a gap between replication and a blurry representation? not to get all textual-feely but...