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...listen hard enough, M83’s new album sparkles a little darker than their last, a sound forged from a glaze of tragedy and a dusting of sadism. Before The Dawn Heals Us, the band??s follow-up to the 2003 underground hit Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, should send a shudder of excitement through an ever-growing audience hungry for electronica with a heart. Once a two-man collaboration, M83 has been trimmed down to just Anthony Gonzalez, a burgeoning artist with an ear for the perfect emotive beat and an eye for innovation...
...striking cover art casts the band??s sound in a Blade Runner-esque cityscape, fitting for M83’s jarring new urban sound. Straying from the Elysian Fields and bird-fluttered skies that comprised the melodies of their first album, Gonzalez lets tracks like “In the Cold I’m Standing” and “Car Chase Terror!” set a disturbingly murky tone for his thematic reincarnation. Lyrics like “A piece of brain in my hair / The wheels are melting” from the album?...
...first record I had made that really sounded like me,” gains strength from the meshing of emotive rock sounds with simple melodies resounding with soft, heartfelt messages. Despite the departure from his long-standing metal band status, Heinegg insists that his band??s recent break-up wasn’t strictly from creative differences: in fact, many of the members of The High Ceilings offered their musical abilities during the production of their old comrade’s debut. The new album that Heinegg had been working on since the band split...
...band hasn’t always played this “rock music for the open road.” Palmer confesses that the band??s roots lay in “playing some trippy hip-hop version of an Elvis Costello song and wanting to form a Beach Boys tribute band...
Williams’s recording made Warren realize that all she wanted to do was write that album. She wrote a letter to the band explaining why she felt they had to do Presenting the Great Unknowns. Only then did the band??s sound start to come together to lay down the foundation for their current musical sensibility...