Album Rating: 2.0

yeah and the thing is i vibe hard with all this 80s throwback shit, basically all ive been jamming the last while is synth pop and synth wave inspired shit but the thing with the albums that actually succeed is that they are putting their own modern twist on it and bringing in other elements instead of just copy pasting the most cliche 80s synth pop album ever into protools or whatever and making it sound like it was recorded in 2016

Album Rating: 2.0

Neon Indian's latest record did this 80's throwback thing like 1000 times better.

Album Rating: 2.0

yeah i mentioned that earlier. its because that album was actually innovative about it.

Album Rating: 1.5

Has no one listened to Walkway Blues because everyone says "Laser Gun" is the only good one and yes while it's a great song it's far from being the best

Album Rating: 2.0

nah laser gun is the best and its the only good song

Album Rating: 1.5

Meh. Idk. Guess I just delight in its cheesy spacey Muppet weirdness. And I feel all the songs are awesome except for "Go!". Never cared for that one. Don't know why he made it a single.

Album Rating: 3.0

¡QUé HERMOSO! ¡UN SOLO DE LA GUITARRA DEL MASTODONTE!

super super good review.

Album Rating: 1.5

This was rough. One of the things that kind of bothered me about recent M83 releases was the vocals, but that's not even the biggest problem here given that this is stacked with guest vocalists.



This just comes across really shallow and half-assed.

Album Rating: 2.0

i dont really feel that it came off half-assed or even shallow tbh its just that i think he got so caught up in the quirks that made his last album popular that he let it consume his artistic vision and it resulted in a failure of an album.

gotta do that thing people liked

Album Rating: 1.5

True. It's not that he's not really trying but he just seems out of his league here, and a lot of these songs are so watered down even for him, especially ones like Go.

Album Rating: 2.0

watered down indeed



to be honest tho ive never felt M83 to be quite as great as a lot of people make him out to be.



im not an expert on his discography, i've never been compelled enough to check out any of his shit before saturdays=youth but even that album albeit good seemed to struggle to breach the box much so to speak



Hurry Up, We're Dreaming was a bit more innovative for its time and was undeniably pretty evocative but was by no means any kind of quintessential work still



but this...



this is just some philly lite shit right here

Album Rating: 1.5

Never been a huge M83 fan myself. Thought his last couple were okay, but definitely better than this.



Dead Cities is worth a listen though.

Album Rating: 2.0

is it anything like saturdays=youth cuz that aesthetic doesnt really appeal to me much and is what prevented me from looking back at his career

Album Rating: 1.5

It's nothing mind-blowing, but it's more inspired than his more recent stuff.



Not really, it's less poppy and melodramatic than Saturdays=Youth. The production's a little more distant and atmospheric, which I think serves his music better.

Album Rating: 2.0

word up

Album Rating: 2.0

there's so much going on here that isn't working

I feel like you'd enjoy Dead Cities potsy, it's definitely more expansive and beautiful than his more recent stuff. It's more a post-rock album but never in a boring repetitive way, it's more like pop songs structured as post-rock

I'm also a huge fan of Before the Dawn Heals Us which is definitely his most diverse

not looking forward to hearing this

Album Rating: 2.0

if ur trying to convince me to listen to something bringing up post-rock isnt a good start :p