M83?

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