Lav's Music Corner

M83 are a French electronica and rock project who have spent the past 20 years building out a diverse catalog of music including sounds of synth pop, shoegaze, electronica, and ambient into both dense compositions and simpler pop songs. Review by Lav: I love M83. While almost everyone agrees on the merit of their most acclaimed and successful project, 2011's Hurry Up, We're Dreaming , the trio of albums they released in the lead-up make for one of the best musical runs of the 2000s. Unfortunately, the only M83 album I've actually had the pleasure of covering as a critic is the one that almost everyone agrees is their worst, 2016's Junk . Despite the 7-year gap in releases, I was still incredibly excited for what M83 would deliver in their next offering. While I'm mostly positive about what they deliver on Fantasy  I can also say that a bit of editing and trimming down could have made an even better project out of this. Some of the reasons I like this album were exac...

M83 is the Electronic music project of French producer and songwriter Anthony Gonzalez that has been releasing music since the early 2000's to large critical acclaim. In 2007 M83 released Digital Shades Vol. 1  an album that took a much more ambient or soundtrack approach than any of the groups other work and DSVII  is the sequel to that record over a decade later. Review By Lavender: M83 is an amazing groups with a brilliant discography that you should absolutely dive into. Dead Cities Red Seas   & Lost Ghosts , Before The Dawn Heals Us  and Saturdays = Youth  are all essential listening fro the 2000's and 2011 Hurry Up We're Dreaming  is one of my favorite records of this entire decade. While I love M83 even I am willing to admit that Digital Shades  is not one of the moments I would recommend from the band as their approach is more background noise than any compositionally dense or uniquely textured ambient or drone music, and its only ba...