M83
"Saturdays=Youth"
Free Track: "Couleurs"
[Windows Media] [Real Audio]
Label: Mute
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Experiencing 80s nostalgia that VH1's "I Love the 80s" just can't satisfy? Then check out M83's new album "Saturday=Youth," a celebration of how it feels to be dazed, confused and fifteen years old—circa 1987, that is.
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French producer Anthony Gonzales is definitely child of the 80s, seeking to recreate the feelings of possibility and mystery during his coming of age in his new album. Youthful euphoria has always been featured prominently in M83's music, whether in the form of dramatic space rock or awestruck ambient bliss-fuzz.
M83's new work, "Saturdays=Youth," is Gonzales' journey into a more melodic, pop-influenced direction, creating an album infused with raging teenage hormones and revamped, synthesized ghosts of the sunny melodies of Tears for Fears and Cocteau Twins.
"Saturdays=Youth" manages to fuse two generations into one, combining slick electro and bubblegum pop with a smooth, modern edge and the euphoric fuzz of 80s rock. For an album focused so strictly on one concept, M83 masters an impressive range of sound: listeners will hear everything from jagged Simple Minds riffs off the Sixteen Candles soundtrack to melancholic synth-tracks that might have slipped out of a David Lynch film.
With tinges of 80s goth rock, pure pop, and spacey electro riffs, "Saturdays=Youth" encompasses moods and sounds that fit the personality of each character in the Breakfast Club. (The brain, the athlete, the basket case, the princess, and the criminal, of course!) Check out "Saturdays=Youth" and follow the hot trend of rocking the 80s in the '08.
If you like "Saturdays=Youth" by M83, then be sure to check out "Trans Canada Highway" by Boards of Canada, "Primal Scream" by Kevin Shields and "Treasure" by Cocteau Twins.