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[SD-Ness]

"Couleurs" is up on his MySpace. I love it. Shoegaze + Dance = WIN

http://www.myspace.com/m83

The idea of youth – wasted, gilded or otherwise – has always featured prominently in M83's music. "I loved being a teenager," says Anthony Gonzalez, who is M83. "That's when I discovered music and started to take drugs and party with my friends."

That time of discovery – and of course the era in which Gonzalez was a teenager – greatly impacted the making of "Saturdays = Youth." "On this record I wanted to have the feeling of a teenager mixed with this period of the Eighties," Gonzalez explains.

Now that he's gotten his ambient kicks with this past fall's Digital Shades Vol. 1, Anthony Gonzalez is ready to release his fifth album as M83, titled Saturdays = Youth. The album is apparently focused on more structured songs than the Digital Shades material, though "Couleurs", available for streaming now, doesn't seem too reliant on traditional pop song structure.

As previously reported, Gonzalez recorded Saturdays with producers Ken Thomas (Sigur Rós, Suede, Cocteau Twins, the Sugarcubes) and Ewan Pearson (the Rapture, Ladytron). Mute will release the album on April 15.

"Graveyard Girl" will be the album's first single.

Saturdays = Youth:

01 You, Appearing
02 Kim & Jessie
03 Skin of the Night
04 Graveyard Girl
05 Couleurs
06 Up!
07 We Own the Sky
08 Highway of Endless Dreams
09 Too Late
10 Dark Moves of Love
11 Midnight Souls Still Remain

 

[keanerie]

Hot. New track sounds great, can't wait for this.

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

I didn't dig this song too much. It's a bit of a departure for M83. Maybe it will grow on me.

 

[Sullen]

Awesome, should be great.

 

[Karma Kramer]

New track is fantastic. Can't wait for the album.

 

[bggrthnjsus]

this new track is pretty sweet
didn't really like digital shades that much, too much ambient, not enough throbbing

 

[Rayven]

Cool. I loved Dead Cities, Dawn not so much.
New track is nice.

 

[obsolete]

Right on. I like that he cites John Hughes as an influence.

He's only 26, and such a great catalog of music already. Bastard.

 

[Kak.efes]

Cool, thanks for the heads up.

 

[wenis]

love

 

[polyh3dron]

puppies

 

[sixteen-bit]

love

weirdest 3.5+ year bump ever

 

[wenis]

weirdest 3.5+ year bump ever

lol yeah, i was working on the official album topic not knowing it was a reply box to this thread. my bad. new thread in a second.

if you were quick enough you might have seen the OP I was working on

 

[∀ Narayan]

Great album.

 

[INPAQ]

This topic sooo seriously deserves its own thread, but since I'm still on my junior status this will have to do...

Regardless.. the official video to M83's Midnight City just dropped today, and my GAWD is so fracking awesome (its like watching X-Men, on audio acid). Also lets not forget, the highly acclaimed album *Hurry Up, We're Dreaming* legally hits stores tomorrow. And so far its looking to be Album Of The Year material, with even the prudes at Pitchfork praising it with a 9.1 review (unheard of). Anyway, peep the audio/visual bliss of M83 below..

M83: Midnight City (Official Video)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xlqsml_m83-midnight-city-clip-officiel_music