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[InfernoNR]

Huge fan of Saturdays = Youth and Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. After three listens, I'm not feeling this.

 

[t-storm]

What in the fuck is this?

I remember when Midnight City came out and everybody was just loving it. A masterpiece.

Even Oblivion was solid.

This is like...

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

I like all the parts except where it's trying to be weird.

 

[ryseing]

That piano is bad. Just terrible.

I have tickets for their summer tour so I hope the rest of the album isn't like this.

 

[GhostBed]

Just a completely forgettable song. Tries to do something unique and utterly fails at it. Literally can't remember a note from it, 20 minutes after listening.

 

[subrock]

This seems like a gag

 

[botty]

Tragic, amateur and terribly commercial. A zedd reject?

 

[LegendOfGood]

This is one of those songs that's going to grow on people, I think.

It makes the full album promising for me.

 

[gdt]

Um, this song is awesome. Can't really get what you guys are saying.

 

[Servbot24]

Tragic, amateur and terribly commercial. A zedd reject?

Huh? That's one of the least commercial songs he's ever made.

 

[KillerMike]

Need to wash that song away? Time for everyone's favorite youtube video: "bill clinton plays m83 for only one hour, but the loop doesn't suck as badly as that other one"

Everytime I hear Midnight City, I hear this instead.

 

[crooked spin]

This song gets better on repeat listens but it is really not the best way to reintroduce yourself after like 5 years of silence.

 

[t-storm]

This song gets better on repeat listens but it is really not the best way to reintroduce yourself after like 5 years of silence.

Agreed. It's growing on me but I'm still confused.

 

[TheSaddestSort]

This does nothing for me unfortunately.

 

[kitchenmotors]

The backlash reminds me of when MGMT released Congratulations and people were like this doesn't sound like Oracular Spectacular.

Except Congratulations was fucking genius.

This song is pretty mediocre.

 

[Psychoward]

How dare he experiment? How dare he?

Experiment all he wants, it's still not a very good song imo

 

[kitchenmotors]

Give me Digital Shades Vol. 2 already.

 

[Icelandic_Jazz]

This song is pretty rad. Different but rad.

 

[t-storm]

Experiment all he wants, it's still not a very good song imo

Yeah, sadly it's not a track I'll be able to listen to with the car windows down this summer unfortunately, like I can with other M83 tracks.

I'll have to roll up the windows with this one

 

[Cipherr]

This goes.

 

[OnPoint]

Super into it. I was more into the earlier M83 stuff and a lot of the stuff on Hurry Up wasn't up my alley. This is like nothing else he's done in the past, and I'm on board if the album is going in this direction. It's pretty interesting.

 

[Koppai]

Love the music, really good!

 

[~Kinggi~]

I think M83 should score more movies.

 

[StriKeVillain]

It isn't that bad, but it also isn't really that good.

 

[Toa TAK]

It's fine, but it's not Hurry Up tier.

 

[kitchenmotors]

It isn't that bad, but it also isn't really that good.

Exactly how I feel. Coming off of an album with a track like Midnight City has to be tough to live up to though.

 

[Vesmir]

It's depressing to hear what M83 has become. Not all transformations are evolutions.

 

[Aurongel]

I dig it in a weird 90s corporate synth way.

 

[tanuki]

Reminded me of Hot Chip.

Pretty much what I thought. Kind of a weird combo, M83 x Hot Chip. And I say this as a big Hot Chip fan.

It's not as terrible as everyone else here is making out, but it's not mindblowing. Merely decent. Which of course, is going to be disappointing after everything that came before this.

 

[Beerman462]

Stupid dog animation ruins it. Akira parody is so much better.

 

[opoth]

It doesn't really sound like M83 nor even good.

I keep hoping for another Saturdays = Youth that's awashed in '80s nostalgia, but it'll never happen.

Gotta keep chasing that teen movie soundtrack skrilla.

It's crazy to think that there was a time that M83 was like a slightly more prolific Boards of Canada.

 

[vatstep]

This seems like a gag

Yup. Wild speculation: he'll release two albums, this one with a bunch of bullshit on it first, then the "real" one shortly after.

 

[charsace]

Looks like something I should pick up. Love his songs and music videos.

 

[17 Seconds]

How dare he experiment? How dare he?

this is a dumb take. nobody is criticizing the fact that it's different. people are saying they don't like the song. i don't like it either. i think it's a bad song. am i a "hater"?

 

[t-storm]

Yup. Wild speculation: he'll release two albums, this one with a bunch of bullshit on it first, then the "real" one shortly after.

We can only hope/dream.

 

[Celegus]

Sounds alright to me. Not the best, but hey, still good!

 

[AwesomePossum]

before i waste a nice click is it more before the dawn heals us or saturdays = youth?

 

[Maengun1]

I don't love it, but I definitely don't hate it. The outro portion is pretty sweet.

No way to tell if this is terribly representative of the whole album. There are a few songs on Hurry Up We're Dreaming I like less than this, and I LOVE Hurry Up We're Dreaming.

Bring it on.

 

[buckfutter]

Actually don't mind it, and could see the style growing on me. The piano seems to be referencing early techno and house tracks like Strings of Life, which I'm down with. Cautiously optimistic for the album. For reference, I liked Hurry Up, but found it a little ponderous and overblown (yes, I do know it's M83 we're talking about here), and S=Y is probably my favourite album from them.

 

[OrlanisWorks]

It's a pretty decent song, but the sound quality strangely put me off. Sounds kinda muffled or something.

 

[CassCade]

This doesn't sound like a m83 song, as much as I liked hurry up were dreaming, I wish they would go back to the dead cities sound

 

[maquiladora]

It's ok....really nothing special. Sounds more like a filler track than a single.

 

[Rootbeer]

Well. That's definitely not one of their stronger songs.

I love their last several albums... but this is a little off. There are parts where it feels like them, but it wavers a lot.

I get the concept they are going for with 'Junk', so I hope there are some gems on the album to win me over.

I'm scared now. I really don't want M83 to enter "that" period of their career.

Man, that ragtime-sounding piano beginning is off-putting.

Sigh. Yeah, it's not working for me on any level.

 

[Alcotholic]

Reminds me a lot of ELO

 

[Cabbagehead]

Wow the reactions in here man, M83 fans my butt. After a few listens it's really not as bad as some of you are making it out to be. Has pretty much all the hallmarks (Love the drop and the dog lol, some nice notes as well) expect for some different back beats and the struggling piano 90ish mix. That sounds totally on purpose. Maybe not as gripping as the rest of their catalog but people are acting like it's totally without merit.

The 80 vibes of the older albums were amazing , though it's seems like their looking into another era and mixing it up. Can't wait to hear more, though I will say Hurry Up was a bit more surprising.

 

[swearing-circle]

Used to love M83 but their last few efforts have been pretty awful imo.

 

[swearing-circle]

Don't get the hate at all.

This is awesome.

EDIT: Oh wait, now I do. It's because it's more pop. I always forget the hate for that genre here.

Nah, my favourite band is a pop group. Just don't like this at all.

 

[Sadsic]

this sounds half dumb but i respect it

 

[Don'tBeWeird]

Heh, not what I expected but...

I LOVE IT.

Starts off very Hot Chip-y then explodes into Daft Punk at the end.

Btw,

Before the Dawn Heals Us > Hurry Up, We're Dreaming > Saturdays = Youth > the rest.

 

[Galang]

I think M83 should score more movies.

I agree! Sadly I don't think he was fond of the how much they restricted him creatively during Oblivion. He didn't seem too thrilled in interviews