“Midnight City”
from the album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
2011
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It’s been a long and fruitful journey for M83’s Anthony Gonzalez. Started in the early ’00s, the once-duo-but-now-solo project has been pumping out albums of top-tier electronic shoegaze for the better part of a decade. That said, M83’s been kind of quiet since the release of 2008’s excellent Saturdays=Youth, but it seems that the time off was a necessary evil: Gonzalez recently announced the imminent arrival of Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, an epic double LP due out October 18. With that release date slowly approaching, Gonzalez has been dropping some teasers to keep us interested, the latest of which is “Midnight City,” the album opener. It’s a great start and marks a logical progression for his sound, complete with chords pulled from ’80s pop music, atmospheric production worthy of Kevin Shields, and a structure that resembles the euphoric ebb-and-flow of trance.
that is terrifying.