… at the Urban Outfitters Blog?! Who knew UO even had a blog?
Anyways, we’ve been listening to this album for the past few weeks and it’s a grower. The album, like 99% of double albums, could be trimmed down by 4 or 5 songs. It feels a bit all over the place and there are some pretty strange songs on it, and not necessarily strange in a good way. Did you ever think you would hear M83 use a slap bass on a song?
Despite a few missteps, or just songs that don’t really flow into the rest, this will grow on you and you will find yourself listening to it over and over again. It’s just hard to get a read on it as a whole. I think I was hoping for something that was more like Dead Cities, Lost Souls over the duration of the album, but I can respect an artist that tries out something new with every release.
Stream it here (w/ interview).
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M83 has a title for his upcoming album as well as a free download for the first single (email req’d). Pitchfork has the details of Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, which will come out October 18th, and from the sound of the first single, “Midnight City”, it’s gonna be great.
Download “Midnight City”. (email req’d)
STREAM:
Full DOUBLE(!!) album tracklist after the jump.
PS – did i mention they will be stopping by the Black Cat on Oct. 28th?
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Anthony Gonzalez, lead braniac behind M83, has been saying his upcoming new album will be going back to their “epic” type style of previous albums such as Before The Dawn Heals Us and Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts and this video gives a hint of that level of “circle of life” grandeur. Can. Not. Wait.
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I was just talking to some friends about how cool the palm pre looks, and then 5 minutes ago this comes on (with M83′s “Lower Your Eyelids To Die With The Sun”):
Love that song.
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Our #1 album of last year now has a new video out for “We Own The Sky”. It follows in a similar fashion as Radioheads “House Of Cards” Video with the data visualization, 100 times better than the one you might see on windows media player (so trippy!). Does this not fit the song perfectly?
M83 – We Own the Sky from David Altobelli on Vimeo.
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