M83?

Nevertheless, I like it.

the cyann and ben version of "in church" is utterly lush with that acoustic guitar in there.

Wild guess: Seefeel? (Note: I've hardly ever heard Seefeel.)

Is it a book about farming?

In a similar way, the drum machines on S3's "Playing With Fire" bug me a lot, particularly on tracks like Suicide. So I try letting them recede into the listening background.

the high points on ddamage's "radio ape" are at least as good as those on the m83 album.

i think the problem might be a wee bit of overexposure to IDM on the part of the indie-mag electronica reviewers who get stuff like m83 dumped in their boxes. if you've been ignoring IDM for the last few years - as any sane person would - and enjoy m83 you will probably find ddamage well worth your time.

and lest i piss off any indie-mag reviewers i will point out that the esteemed dominique leone called my attention to this album.

No, really.

Anyhow, regarding M83, I think they're a very terrible case of production over songwriting ( a la Four Tet ), though maybe I'm biased, I've never been too much of a fan of the shoegazer deal.

Laptop speakers don't/won't suffice.

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.

For the Kids > Solitude > The Wizard is such a great run of songs.

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?

This, Radiohead and latest Autechre my fave new album listens at the moment

lately I've been wondering if the Diplo dolphin sound was actually invented by M83 on Midnight City

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

saturdays will always be classic, "Coleurs" is a huge stand-out

yes i will always look back upon that album fondly

this track from junk is tops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs3Wki_uYzQ

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.

Their big single sucks, you know.

it was a weird single choice, both Claudia Lewis and Steve McQueen are so much better!

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!

sundfor track is classic and i'll always have time for Saturdays which clearly influenced Chvrches and IAM

also the rockets song is pure kate bush pastiche done right

Worst song ever? This is nonsense and I’ll go listen to midnight city instead.

IAM?

iamamiwhoami now known as ionnalee, purveyor of synth pop excellence.

midnight city rules

correct!

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.

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?

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

I like this new record a lot more than most of the stuff he's done over the past decade+

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.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P47STNaFVuc

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…

it;s like Billie Eilish was in the video or some shit…

forgot how rad Junk is, felt as open and haunted as ever tonight. hoping to get to Fantasy tomorrow.

"Oceans Niagara" played loud is quite a thing. up there with "Kim & Jessie" and "Teen Angst" for me.

"Kool Nuit" also very cool

I like this album. It's kind of crazy he's been releasing stuff for so long.

okay if there's a song that is reminiscent of Kim & Jessie (probably my all time fav M83 tune), I'm interested. I hated Junk so much I practically stopped listening to this dude's music entirely

yeah, I really disliked Junk but I also feel like one of the few people that really loved DSVII so who knows. haven't had a chance to get to Fantasy yet.

it's pretty good!

Finally getting around to Fantasy and it's kind of boring? I mean, sonically it's a massive improvement on Junk and it hits the right mood, but it also kind of feels like just going through the M83 motions. I don't know, it just made me want to go back to the earlier albums instead.

disappointing, and yes wanted to make me go to the catalog instead