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| 4.5 superb | AggravatedYeti | September 11th 08 |
My favorite soundtrack music ever -- M83's 'Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts' is an electronic masterpiece. Mixing equal influences from Air & My Bloody Valentine, Anthony Gonzalez creates an eclectic masterwork of epic proportions. Add MBV's fuzzed out guitars with a French love for synths and you've pretty much got M83 in a pigeon hole -- or so it would seem. They go more rough, less pretty -- frightening as opposed to serene, this is not dream pop. Vocals are mostly kept to indeterminable male (Gonzalez) or robot, almost completely electronic female ones -- or a spoken word story here and there (see 'America'). Really though, this is mostly an instrumental album, along the lines of an Air, or Eluvium. Air is a fair (heh) choice for a comparison seeing as both electronic duos are French, and pretty much sound like it. The music broods with romantic turmoil, bevies of emotion as well as those awesome, awesome synths. Regardless of all M83's obvious comparisons, Gonzalez is able to bring his music to something totally different. With a soundtrack quality to his epic inclinations his music comes out sounding tried and exuberant, yet beautiful and serene. It always sounds HUGE, and really, benefits from that fact. 'Unrecorded', 'Run into Flowers' and 'In Church' -- hell every track is stand out. Get this.
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| 4.0 excellent | sean.n.zelda | March 29th 13 |
One has to be in a particular mood for m83. I'm in that mood right now.
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| 5.0 classic | ashesofman | November 28th 12 |
m83 may have "sold out". And although their newer releases have gained them the best part of their fanbase, their second album remains their magnum opus. Dead Cities is more polished then any sophomore effort ought to be. It may be a vain wish, but I wish that m83 would revisit their original style of music with the resources they now have at their disposal. However, I'm afraid it isn't meant to be. Anyways! Listen to this album. It is amazing!
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| 5.0 classic | Aaron Fancey | February 9th 12 |
To this date (February 2012) Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts still remains Anthony Gonzalez's best work. He went on to develop pop-friendly songwriting and style, but never were his electronics more towering and emotional than on this seminal electro-shoegaze record. A work of art.
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| 4.0 excellent | Jake H. | April 13th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | BigSimo | March 18th 13 |
| 2.5 average | Claudio | January 22nd 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Samuel | January 13th 13 |
| 3.5 great | urzadek | December 17th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | EJinHD | December 7th 12 |
| 3.5 great | br1nk | November 30th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | TheGoon | October 29th 12 |
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| 4.0 excellent | Steedo | April 12th 12 |
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| 3.5 great | Slask | March 30th 12 |
| 3.5 great | gosk8n | March 24th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | panaba | March 8th 12 |
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| 4.0 excellent | Matski | March 2nd 12 |
| 3.5 great | Coast | February 23rd 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | TheDrop | February 19th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | gvogel | January 1st 12 |
| 2.5 average | svjchtr | December 14th 11 |
| 3.5 great | bonus | December 14th 11 |
| 3.5 great | zxlkho | December 6th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | MrChuck | October 28th 11 |
| 3.5 great | WBalls | October 23rd 11 |
| 3.5 great | perlox | October 23rd 11 |
| 5.0 classic | fev | October 18th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | xxxzzz | October 7th 11 |
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| 4.0 excellent | Deathcar | September 10th 11 |
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| 4.5 superb | WLuke | August 5th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Opaque | July 9th 11 |
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| 4.5 superb | James | April 28th 11 |
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| 4.0 excellent | Ethan | March 20th 11 |
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| 4.5 superb | tehaj1 | March 2nd 11 |
| 3.0 good | Thef | February 18th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | T.K. | December 15th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Leyland | December 6th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Roomex | November 12th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | grotto | October 26th 10 |
| 3.5 great | mvood | October 3rd 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Heysatan | September 22nd 10 |
| 4.5 superb | xezene | September 14th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | lamy | September 4th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | Calum | August 19th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | ot63 | August 14th 10 |
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| 5.0 classic | Dustin | April 6th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | KSCIAA | March 25th 10 |
| 3.5 great | blabony | February 27th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kiran EMERITUS | February 17th 10 |
| 5.0 classic | Yotimi | November 24th 09 |
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| 3.5 great | Chris | June 1st 09 |
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| 3.0 good | drew | March 26th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | slan | February 18th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | omgbees | February 2nd 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | pdbn | January 28th 09 |
| 4.5 superb | Steeed | December 15th 08 |
| 3.0 good | doqtor | April 17th 08 |
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