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...or if you are like me we're having a nightmare listening to some of this overblown stadium tosh. Imagine a Bono who is even more messianic than he thinks he is collaborating with Jean Michelle Jarre, Phil Collins on drums, playing the biggest stadium in the entire world. That's the impression you get from the massive opening track which we think features Zola Jesus though you can barely hear her beneath all the flotsam and jetsam piled on top of this track. 'Midnight City' is pure '80s synth-driven rock with a catchy as hell keyboard motif, sitting somewhere between Erasure and Roxette. 'Reunion' IS 'Don't You Forget About Me' by Simple Minds shot through with Mew's absurd progressive pop. Why does everyone want to ape phenomenally successful, millionaires U2? Everything here recalls their idiotic take on stadium rock as performed by an Eastern European tribute band whose aim in life is to join the Scorpions. Strangely when the bluster is toned down as on 'Wait' its much more affecting. Still, that's not saying a lot. 'Raconte-Moi Une Histoire' features an idiotic kid annoying everyone beneath the Larry Mullen bassline. I'm only on track 6 out of 22 and I've seen enough - on one hand you have to admire such determined pompous self-belief, on the other you want to wring their necks.
M83 announces the highly anticipated new album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming released on 17 October 2011, through Naïve. After the release of 2008’s acclaimed album Saturdays = Youth which hit many end of year lists including Mojo and Drowned In Sound who made it their number one album that year, M83 (aka Anthony Gonzalez) will release his epic new double album, produced by Justin Meldal-Johnson (Beck, NIN, The Mars Volta, Goldfrapp) and including contributions from Zola Jesus, Brad Laner (from 90’s band Medicine) on guitar, and Saturdays = Youth vocalist Morgan Kibby. M83 fans have the opportunity to hear and download the first single, ‘Midnight City’, from today. The adrenaline-driven dreamlike track is unlike anything we have heard from M83 before and reveals a taster of this ambitious and impressive album that singles Gonzalez out as an artist at the pinnacle of his career who is ready to take leftfield music to the masses. Download the track from M83’s official website http://www.ilovem83.com/midnight-city or stop by http://soundcloud.com/m83/midnight-city to stream it. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming tackles themes of awakening, craving, and conquering, and delves into new vocal territory for M83. “I think it is a reflection of my 30 years of being a human being. It’s a compilation of all my previous music together. It’s a retrospective of myself”, says Gonzalez. M83 will bring his unique live show to the UK later this year, more details to follow soon.
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