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I'm sure not as long as you gygax...

And there's nothing wrong with calling them out on something, even if it's been done many times before. I actually revived this on this thread in order to support the new M83 record in my own little way.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link

...because the pitchfork review is really unfair - although I'm sure you'll just tell me that life is unfair or something.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Is it possible to like some Journey, most M83, and not be sentenced to eternal damnation?

― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:07 (nineteen years ago) link

as Richard Dawson:

"Pitchfork SAYS:"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I had my own problems with that song (upthread) but that's more to do with the song not fitting in well with the rest of the album. In turn, Mr. Ebner's review doesn't accurately respresent anything M83 are doing on the other 95% of the album.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Exactly.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 2 December 2004 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link

You mean it's OK to buy the new M83 once it's released...even without PFork's approval...even with The Essential Journey hiding in my basement?

― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Thursday, 2 December 2004 05:25 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

cool cover

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00070Q8HC.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Re: what I wrote four posts up, I should change "95%" to "70%".

"Don't Save Us From the Flames" is starting to sound like something from the "Flashdance" soundtrack to me. It's still awesome, though.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Goddamn it, that is a great cover. It looks like an Andreas Gursky photo. What city is that?

― Chuckling at the Tomkat's Marquee (Ben Boyer), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Does look nice but I reserve judgment until I hear the thing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Its pretty good. Kinda reminds me of the Air soundtrack for Virgin Suicides.

― hector (hector), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:33 (nineteen years ago) link

that's one wicked ass cover.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link

it reminds me of "world" by new order, only not as good.

(the cover, that is. not the music. which i haven't heard yet and am oddly apprehensive about.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 8 January 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Well goddamn, a couple of songs in and it's blowing away the last album, which never really worked for me at all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 January 2005 02:45 (nineteen years ago) link

And does anyone know what the sample from "Car Chase Terror!" is from? It's almost like John Waters did a slasher film.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 January 2005 03:21 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

spoken word parts made me cringe.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 31 January 2005 02:06 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 31 January 2005 02:15 (nineteen years ago) link

the spoken word parts, that is.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 31 January 2005 02:17 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

M83, kinda blahhhhhhhhhhhh

― owen reading, Monday, 31 January 2005 03:43 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

...like YOURS!

*distant cries in the night*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 January 2005 05:21 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 January 2005 05:26 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

"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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

"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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:24 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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