M83 "Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts"
The second album from two French fellers (Anthony Gonzalez and Nicolas Fromageau, released 2003) who create rich musical landscapes to set your mind a flutter. I find it amazing that it only took two guys to create this expansively imaginative, multi-layered sound... pretty awesome. M83 fittingly derived their name from a spiral shaped cluster of stars also known as the "Southern Pinwheel" galaxy. Fitting because you could describe M83 as a pinwheel of spaced out sound. By mixing warm ambient textures with, at times, My Bloody Valentine inspired pop M83 have produced an album you'll to easily get lost in. Each song spirals and flows smoothly into the next, so your locked in for an enitre 56 plus minutes. I read a fan review at insound stating that this CD "will love you and kill you all at once." Yep. It's electronic music with an organic soul; deep and mysterious. You like Sigur Ros, My Bloody Valentine, Brian Eno, Spiritualized, Radiohead, etc? Then you most likely are already into this band, but if not get with it because this collection of 17 songs (two CDs, plus two music videos to feast on) is one of the best things to happen to dreamy morose music loving geeks everywhere.
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posted by ry_dog at 8:47 PM
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Great album man...what do you think of the new one?
I haven't actually listened to their new CD... I checked it out on Amazon though, and was sad to read Nicolas is no longer in the group. I listened to a couple samples, and I honestly don't like it as much as Dead Cities. I don't know... maybe I haven't given it that much of a chance. What do you think of it?
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