M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (Part 5)

Chris misses Kibby, catches heat, ignores Saturdays=Youth, and doesn’t realize what a hotbed of singles this album is.

M83 – “Reunion” (from Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming)

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From: Chris Atto
To: Brandon Hall, André Salas

I, for one, would DIE for a Zola/M83 album. In fact, when I first heard “Intro”, my immediate thought was, “Damn! Zola Jesus sounds fucking perfect on top of some M83 music!” I don’t see a full collab in our future but I will most certainly continue to secretly pine for one. I didn’t realize Kibby was no longer on board, though I know she’s been picking up a bit more with her own White Sea musical project. But that kind of makes me sad because when I did get to see them at Pitchfork Fest a few years back, Kibby was a major part of the awesome that ensued.

But I don’t really agree that this album ought to be put on shuffle; the slower tracks all work together with the upbeat tracks to form the flow of the album, which to me is a pretty good flow. I seem to be getting a lot of heat for not talking about how much better Saturdays=Youth is, but I guess I just feel like they are different beings and we should take Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming for what it is instead of comparing to past, present, or future. Because what’s the fun of an artist putting out the same thing time after time? Not that much fun, I’ll tell you that.

On to the singles. Well, I guess this is where I feel like the album works as a whole better then as individual tracks. Other than the first three songs, two of which have already sort of been released as “blog singles”, I don’t really think there are a ton of singles on this album. Or maybe it’s just harder for me to pick out individual tracks because like I said before I think there are some strong musical themes that run throughout the whole album, so perhaps in my head the songs blur together a bit.

Anyway, I’m off to a sushi happy hour.

Still wanting to become a magical frog,

Chris

Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming is out 10/18 on Mute.

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