M83 - Saturdays=Youth
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Free Music Notes for Saturdays=Youth
Free Music Review: Good but not great
Hit: 4 Stars
As a follower of their work since Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, I had high expectations for this M83 album. Though the sound is still there, there aren't the moving musical moments that one experienced in Before the Dawn Heals Us. There is an inevitable New Order feel to many of the songs ("Couleurs" and "We Own The Sky" being two of them), but deep within this is M83 as we know it. It just isn't their best work so far.
Some great tracks: "Kim & Jessie," "Graveyard Girl," "Highway Of Endless Dreams" and the closing track.
Free Music Review: Healing the margin from the 80s
Hit: 4 Stars
This album has a different shift from Frenchfolk M83's last two albums
Digital Shades and Before the Dawn Heals us; there's no moon
romance in this album, but it still upkeeps the theatrical and
searching sound. The `youth' it attempts is filtered through nostalgia
for the purposefully fake sounds of the '80s,. This album could easily
be classified as fantasy pop music (the vocals occasionally sound sinister).
Sometimes there are obvious musical parallels to people like Phil Collins--but
makes sense with the reminiscent 80s. Play any of `em. if you flip through
the cd cover, note how each person is divinely beautiful .
Free Music Review: Saturdays=Youth
Hit: 4 Stars
I'm glad I bought Saturdays=Youth--it's a yearning, energetic record that certainly has its moments for synth-rock fans. "Kim & Jessie" and in particular "Skin of the Night" are my favorite songs in the early moments, and ballad "Too Late" is my favorite towards the end. For me, the album seems to go on a bit long--its 11 tracks run for 62 minutes, over 11 of which constitute album closer "Midnight Souls Still Remain." (Which would've been fine at 5 or 6 minutes.)
Fortunately, the album doesn't feel all that long until it gets past "Too Late." It should be an enjoyable record for fans of Depeche Mode or Goldfrapp.
Free Music Review: Cheap synthesizers
Hit: 4 Stars
Countless musicians have humanized electronic sounds by generating tones that feel warm or organic (Four Tet, Towers of Asia), but M83 have undertaken a different challenge: to convey beauty through the familiar, filtered buzz of the kind of cheap synthesizers usually found in techno and dance tracks.Free Music Review: Time for a new drummer
Hit: 4 Stars
A great effort and probably a more authentic take on the '80's sound than say The Killers. I love the screeching My Bloody Valentine synth on "Kim & Jessie", but the recording is seriously compromised by some very lousy drumming. Get a drum machine if you can't find someone who can play.