Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (CD)


M83

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Amoeba Review

10/18/2011

After a decade’s worth of brilliant albums that have been increasingly epic in scope, Anthony Gonzalez of M83 has delivered the masterpiece he has hinted at for years. Gonzalez builds off the life-embracing yet ’80s nostalgic pop of 2008’s Saturdays=Youth across this double-album. Taking a hint from the Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Gonzalez sweeps through childlike wonder (the children’s story as Kraftwerkian computer-pop of “Raconte-Moi Une Histoire”), adolescent angst (the two and a half minutes of skyscraper-sized orchestral rock in “My Tears Are Becoming a Sea”) and young adult excitement (Gonzalez cries “The city is my church!” in the neon-backlit “Midnight City”) to capture the wide-eyed energy and naivete of youth. There’s newly an emphasis on the kind of shuffling ‘80s funk-pop of the likes of Huey Lewis & the News and Hall & Oates in songs like “Claudia Lewis,” but it actually feels less throwback-ish than some of his previous work, perhaps in part due to contemporaries like Toro y Moi and Neon Indian similarly fusing such sounds with shoegazer aesthetics. Indeed, with the kinds of sonic dreamscapes of albums like Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts and Before the Dawn Heals Us also in tow on songs like “This Bright Flash,” Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming presents us with all of Gonzaelz’s best tendencies, all at once, and at their utmost potential. Read More


Track Listing



Disc 1 Titles
Artist
Length
1.
Intro 		M83 05:22
2.
Midnight City 		M83 04:04
3.
Reunion 		M83 03:55
4.
Where The Boats Go 		M83 01:46
5.
Wait 		M83 05:43
6.
Raconte-Moi Une Histoire 		M83 04:04
7.
Train To Pluton 		M83 01:15
8.
Claudia Lewis 		M83 04:31
9.
This Bright Flash 		M83 02:24
10.
When Will You Come Home? 		M83 01:23
11.
Soon, My Friend 		M83 03:09


Disc 2 Titles
Artist
Length
1.
My Tears Are Becoming A Sea 		M83 02:31
2.
New Map 		M83 04:22
3.
OK Pal 		M83 03:58
4.
Another Wave From You 		M83 01:53
5.
Splendor 		M83 05:07
6.
Year One, One UFO 		M83 03:17
7.
Fountains 		M83 01:21
8.
Steve McQueen 		M83 03:48
9.
Echoes Of Mine 		M83 03:39
10.
Klaus I Love You 		M83 01:44
11.
Outro 		M83 04:07

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