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― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 11 April 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link
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
sundfor track is classic and i'll always have time for Saturdays which clearly influenced Chvrches and IAM
― Slippage (Ross), Monday, 11 June 2018 06:42 (six years ago) link
also the rockets song is pure kate bush pastiche done right
― Slippage (Ross), Monday, 11 June 2018 06:43 (six years ago) link
Worst song ever? This is nonsense and I’ll go listen to midnight city instead.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 11 June 2018 06:48 (six years ago) link
IAM?
― austinb, Monday, 11 June 2018 06:52 (six years ago) link
iamamiwhoami now known as ionnalee, purveyor of synth pop excellence.
― Slippage (Ross), Monday, 11 June 2018 07:21 (six years ago) link
midnight city rules
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 11 June 2018 11:58 (six years ago) link
correct!
― dyl, Monday, 11 June 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
Searched, but didn't find mention of Team Ghost, Nicolas Fromageau's band after leaving M83 in 2004. Only own the two 2010 EPs, but they're great. Team Ghost did a remix of "Midnight City" back in 2011.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Monday, 11 June 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
So this guy really (intentionally?) shot himself in the foot with that "Junk" album, didn't he? Big breakthrough in 2011, five years for that follow-up in 2016, which seemed to hurt the band's popularity. Three years later and I didn't even know he released something new a couple of months ago, a synthy instrumental album inspired by synth movie scores. Which, if I searched correctly, literally comes up only once in an ILX search. Mission accomplished, Anthony Gonzalez?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 December 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
Answering my own question: yes, he seems to be going for a hard restore and reset.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvgvx5/m83-anthony-gonzales-interview-new-album-dsvii-midnight-city
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 December 2019 22:53 (four years ago) link
I like this new record a lot more than most of the stuff he's done over the past decade+
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 13 December 2019 22:55 (four years ago) link
Yeah that new one is actually pretty great and so much better than Junk. I wouldn't mind if he kept going on in this direction.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 13 December 2019 23:26 (four years ago) link
Listening to my two Team Ghost eps again, and really think anyone not enjoying current M83 would dig this side of the old split. Am going to hunt up the full albums, since these EPs are hitting the same buttons as Before the Dawn Heals Us.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P47STNaFVuc
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 5 February 2020 18:45 (four years ago) link
at any time when ILM was talking about M83, I, had not heard the song Midnight City. Yet in the past oh I don't know 3 years I heard it, heralded by that hectoring synth line…and that shit stayed with me! It appears to have become a standard since…
― veronica moser, Sunday, 9 February 2020 04:22 (four years ago) link
it;s like Billie Eilish was in the video or some shit…
― veronica moser, Sunday, 9 February 2020 04:26 (four years ago) link
forgot how rad Junk is, felt as open and haunted as ever tonight. hoping to get to Fantasy tomorrow.
― fleeting art that floats! (geoffreyess), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 03:56 (one year ago) link