Cat No:
NV831811
Release Date: 22 September 2003
Label: Naïve
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 3298498318111
Genres: Electronic Pop
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Description
Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts is the second album from French electronica duo M83 (Anthony Gonzalez and Nicolas Fromageau) who, thankfully, derive their name from a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Hydra and not from an interminably lacklustre stretch of noxious British motorway. The name certainly nods to where their wide-eyed spaced-out technicolour imaginations are fixed, but they also know how to sound ponderously intense--hence the cold, cello-aided sonority of "Gone", possibly the only track on the album that defies the lambent warmth of the purring analogue synths and beguiling reveries that make the rest of the album as enticingly therapeutic as a thermal spa.
Humane post-rock is clearly M83's strongest attribute because both "Run into Flowers" and "On a White Lake, Near a Green Mountain" are curiously pretty cameos, far removed from the automatic anaemia of other workmanlike button-pushers. The high point, though, is the symphonic sweetness and motherly female choral vocals of "Beauties Can Die", which is rather like being cradled in the arms of an angel, or at the very least the arms of Sigur Ros and Lesley Garrett. If one really has to die and go to heaven, one rather hopes the journey up there will sound like this. --Kevin Maidment -
Tracklisting
- 1. Birds
- 2. Unrecorded
- 3. Run Into Flowers
- 4. In Church
- 5. America
- 6. On A White Lake, Near A Green Mountain
- 7. Noise
- 8. Be Wild
- 9. Cyborg
- 10. 0078h
- 11. Gone
- 12. Beauties Can Die
Disc 1
Side 1
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Hurry Up We're Dreaming
M83
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Give My Love To London
Marianne Faithfull
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Horses and High Heels
Marianne Faithfull
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Easy Come, Easy Go
Marianne Faithfull
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Before the Poison
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DSVII
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Wounded
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Saturdays=Youth
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Digital Shades
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DIGITAL SHADES, VOL. 1
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Before The Dawn Heal Us
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