The sum is greater than the Dawn of it's parts.
Just listening to the new m83 album "Before the dawn heals us".
Imagine an album that manages to blend together:-
@ "shoegazing" taken directly from the My Bloody Valentine "swoop and crash" school of guitar abuse
@ layered choir runs that whiff of musical cheese
@ Air style gallic-lite electronica
@ Eno-esque soundscapes
@ bursts of white noise and other jolting tricks
@ random quotes and spoken word samples
@ unapologetically 80's analog synth-lines
@ wonderfully pretentious song titles like "Lower Your Eyelids To Die With The Sun" and "Let Men Burn Stars"
It shouldn't work. It really shouldn't. Any part on it's own wouldn't be a problem but all together it shouldn't be able to take off under it's own steam.
So how come it does and manges to be utterly sublime and life-affirming too ??
posted by Just Somebody @ 1:48 pm
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I bet it was the MBV mention that got you interested, wasn't it ? ;o)
Oh, and watch out for "Car Crash Terror !" on there if you do check it out - once you hit a certain point in the spoken word and realise the twist in it....... {shudder}
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