M83 - Saturdays=Youth
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Free Music Review: Youthful Summers From Our Pasts, Living and Breathing
Hit: 5 Stars
With "Saturdays = Youth" M83 attempts to evoke the fiery emotions of the adolescent heart throughout, from music to lyrics to packaging. They succeed in crafting a dusky, summer evening album that will provide me with perfect listening for when I contemplate what it was like to be 14 to 17 years old, thinking I was in love but still not knowing how to approach such feelings from any other perspective than that of a child.
This music causes me to think of times in the neighborhood or in the park, particularly those times when the summer evening games of childhood began their evolution into times at once magical, thrilling and terrifying. Something wondrous was happening, and it was all about learning of major changes along the route to adulthood. The subtle undercurrents of sexual tension and longing that permeate "Saturdays = Youth" remind of things I have not felt for years, therefore I find this CD invigorating.
If you like lush electronic musical textures with subtle guitars here and there, soft-edged vocals and some heady grooves you will probably enjoy the way this album sounds. There are few moments of panic here. It is for the most part pastoral and relaxing, but it is nonetheless full of adrenaline due to the inner tension created through the way the music has been written and played.
M83 leader Anthony Gonzalez likes to write about youth, and I believe this album represents not only the band's most musically focused work to date, but also its most focused work in terms of emotions; he and M83 help lost memories of youth come alive. When I was in my early-mid teens, popular music sounded a lot different than what I hear on this disc, but M83 captures some of those past emotions for me. After all, such feelings never really die. If you look far enough down inside, you will find such feelings still hiding, asking to be let out. "Saturdays = Youth" may help you bring some of these feelings up for air. Listen to this CD, and let your feelings breathe.
Free Music Review: Brilliant!
Hit: 5 Stars
As a kid growing up in the 80's, I was never fond of the majority of Top 40 music of that era. I found the sound to be too produced and the artists were hard to take as they pranced and preened on MTV. Bunch of fops, I thought. It's ironic that the music that I rejected twenty years ago as a kid has influenced a multitude of artists that incorporate these styles into something that I now find palatable. Who knows, maybe a little nostalgia and maturity isn't such a bad thing.
One artist, M83 (Anthony Gonzalez) has taken those sounds and the feelings of that era and has created an excellent album, `Saturdays=Youth' that could be best described as a soundtrack to a lost John Hughes film. M83 has crafted an album full of whooshing synths and brittle production easily replicating the feel of an 80's production. This album is no simple mimicry though, because it has some great songs that accompany the production. The instrumental "Couleurs" could have been a huge dance hit accompanying a Beverly Hills Cop scene. "Skin Of the Night" is evocative of "Cry Little Sister" from The Lost Boys.
Although this album is drenched in 80's synth pop, it also contains some of the most solid songs that M83 has written. `Saturdays=Youth' is an album that rewards on multiple listens as it illuminates the past and wanders towards the future.
Free Music Review: Probably...
Hit: 5 Stars
...probably I would have never bought it by the cover.. sometimes I did it.. you know.. cover for a cd is important!... should give you an idea of what you're gonna listen to...
well, I found out of these guys as opening act for Depeche Mode, and I can tell I've been really impressed!!
I began to see DM live in 1986 and I can say I never did like their opening act... these were the first I searched for when I got back home from the gig... and the search was worth itself...
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I can say that sometimes their melodies are even too simple, but they catch you, maybe for that reason too.. It sounds oldish... vintage synths... nothing new maybe or something alredy heard... but THIS album especially (because I bought the entire discography) is really flawless, from the first track, leading to one of their singles "Kim & Jassie" which became one of my favourites, also because I clearly recalled it from the gig!... the silliness and at-the-same-time majesty of the last trip.. sorry :-) last track: 10 minutes of 2 chords pad in loop....
well... lyrics are just a little bit creepy but it's part of the game!
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Don't know if you'll like it or not, BUT, to me, it's one of those cds that it's NOT listened once and then put away in a cd tower...
BUY IT.. it's worth...
Free Music Review: If only my life could be more like 1983...
Hit: 5 Stars
The presence of a Boy George wanna-be and a Molly Ringwald clone on the cover ought to be a major tip-off that "Saturdays=Youth" is M83's loving (and only semi-ironic) tribute to the 1980s and to the movies of that decade's leading youth-cinema auteur, John Hughes.
But this is no mere exercise in lame nostalgia. M83 (actually Anthony Gonzalez) treats his subjects - youthful heartbreak and teenage drama - with more affection and reverence than winking condescension. And as a bonus, the songs and production are thrillingly good - from the waves of glossy synths and whispery vocals to the electronic punch of the drum machines.
It's weird to think that Gonzalez is himself only in his mid-20s, which means he was a mere infant during the actual decade he so clearly and nostalgically loves. But who really cares when the results are this consistently great? Fans of New Order, OMD, the Cocteau Twins and the soundtracks to "The Breakfast Club" or "Pretty in Pink" will find "Saturdays=Youth" to be just their cup of tea.
Free Music Review: A bittersweet work.
Hit: 5 Stars
I am late in reviewing this, I purchased the day of it's release. It was one of those albums that I had to put away for a while. I didn't put it away because it wasn't good, but because it struck a fragile chord with me. From the moment You Appearing started, my mood completely changed. This album is beautiful and bittersweet, just like those great memories that it does so well at conjuring. For me, there is always a bit of sad longing in the memories of my best times. That feeling mixed with M83's ability to always present moving pieces of music make this album very powerful to me. This is an album of past summers, limitless hopes, growing up, and the highs and lows that come with those life experiences. It's hopeful and tragic all at the same time. To me it's very deep and presents many layers of beautiful music and emotion. I recommend this album to anyone looking for something deeper than your average release.