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Track Listings
| 1. You Appearing |
| 2. Kim & Jessie |
| 3. Skin Of The Night |
| 4. Graveyard girl |
| 5. Couleurs |
| 6. Up ! |
| 7. We Own The Sky |
| 8. Highway Of Endless Dreams |
| 9. Too Late |
| 10. Dark Moves Of Love |
| 11. Midnight Souls Still Remain |
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For M83's chief star-gazer Anthony Gonzalez, his youth is something he looks back upon with affection, something that has become the defining theme of his enchanting new album, Saturdays=Youth. Saturdays=Youth is his most explicit celebration yet of how it feels to be dazed, confused and 15 years old. "Saturday is definitely the coolest day of the week for a teenager and that's the reason Saturday is in the title," he says, as if it needed explaining. "Saturday always reminds everyone of their youth". Saturdays = Youth delivers the rich sonic textures for which M83 is well known -this time with a more focused approach to song structure and form.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I bought this album because loved the track 'we own the sky' that and it was 2.99 on another well known website. I put it on not expecting much but hoping it would be listenable. It is the BEST album i have ever owned. It arrived along with some other albums so it was put to the bottom of the pile. When i listened to it for the first time i was hooked. The song 'graveyard girl' strikes a chord with me...such stong words! I love every single track and i enjoy listening to drum and bass but it was the lyrics that got me hooked...have a goood listen! BUY IT
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
It is maybe because I am of a similar age to M83's Anthony Gonzalez that the themes and aesthetics of 'Saturday = Youth' resonate so strongly. This album is drenched with 80's inspiration and takes its atmospheric cues from the likes of Cocteau Twins, the post punk band The Chameleons (give their second album 'What Does Anything Mean? Basically' a listen - the opener 'Silence, Sea & Sky' in particular could have been plucked straight from an M83 album) as well as an obvious nod to 'Hounds of Love' era Kate Bush.
In some respects, the album is comparable to the work of Boards of Canada. That is not to say that M83's compositions resemble the mood or sonic palette of BoC particularly ('Music Has the Right to Children' was menacing and claustrophobic, 'Saturdays = Youth' is light and airy), it is more the sense of delicious nostalgia that each act expertly taps into.
There is a shamelessly heartfelt sincerity to these tracks, which is extremely refreshing given the number of bands that are currently adopting an 80's influenced sound but are far too self aware and engrossed in cool posturing to cut loose and have fun with it.
The whole album is an absolute delight, but a special mention for 'You, Appearing', 'Kim & Jessie', 'We Own the Sky' and 'Dark Moves of Love'.
In some respects, the album is comparable to the work of Boards of Canada. That is not to say that M83's compositions resemble the mood or sonic palette of BoC particularly ('Music Has the Right to Children' was menacing and claustrophobic, 'Saturdays = Youth' is light and airy), it is more the sense of delicious nostalgia that each act expertly taps into.
There is a shamelessly heartfelt sincerity to these tracks, which is extremely refreshing given the number of bands that are currently adopting an 80's influenced sound but are far too self aware and engrossed in cool posturing to cut loose and have fun with it.
The whole album is an absolute delight, but a special mention for 'You, Appearing', 'Kim & Jessie', 'We Own the Sky' and 'Dark Moves of Love'.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This fourth M83 LP takes on where the previous "Before The Dawn..." left off, but an even larger room was made this time for ethereal vocals, whether male or female. From the startling opening "You, Appearing", you know you're in for something special; the subtle trickery of previous works is here, but serves the purpose in a much more soulful (dare I say "human") way.
Tracks such as "Kim & Jessie" (which could provide a nice indie-pop summer hit) or "Up!" sound like how the last (brilliant ortherwise) Goldfrapp LP could have been up to if they had kept their electronic craft, while "Dark Moves Of Love" is the epitome of shoegazing albeit turned to 11 (like the Cocteau Twins jamming with Mercury Rev, if you see what I mean). But the key track here, still, is the forthcoming single, "Couleurs", which, with his obsessive rhythm construction and guitar/keyboards collusive maelstrom, will take you to another level of hypnose and excitement, to heights rarely reached by electronic acts.
A few 80's tricks in the arrangements can't even distract from the fact "Saturdays=Youth" (not such a cryptic title, if you think) is pop as what it always should be; sing-a-long melodies and innovative soundscapes everywhere.
Tracks such as "Kim & Jessie" (which could provide a nice indie-pop summer hit) or "Up!" sound like how the last (brilliant ortherwise) Goldfrapp LP could have been up to if they had kept their electronic craft, while "Dark Moves Of Love" is the epitome of shoegazing albeit turned to 11 (like the Cocteau Twins jamming with Mercury Rev, if you see what I mean). But the key track here, still, is the forthcoming single, "Couleurs", which, with his obsessive rhythm construction and guitar/keyboards collusive maelstrom, will take you to another level of hypnose and excitement, to heights rarely reached by electronic acts.
A few 80's tricks in the arrangements can't even distract from the fact "Saturdays=Youth" (not such a cryptic title, if you think) is pop as what it always should be; sing-a-long melodies and innovative soundscapes everywhere.
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Mr Gonzalez is genius!
This is my favourite M83 album. Coleurs is just sublime and if you're ever lucky enough to see them live just pray they play this (was the encore at Shepherd's Bush this year) then... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Push the Button
Top Banana
Simply sublime. Poetry in motion, music to chill out to or raise the spirits when life gets a tad too hectic.
Published 2 months ago by ethel-red
untried
Never come across these before but pleasantly surprised, there some uninteresting tracks but there are also some very good ones.
Published 4 months ago by crocko64
Beautiful, beautiful
I must admit that I'd only heard one song by M83 before hearing this album. I felt inclined to buy it upon hearing the stunning opening track and was not disappointed. Read more
Published 7 months ago by whisperygenie
M83 = Very Good
Been listening to this album for a little while now, it's well packaged, has the lyrics on the inner sleeve, sounds good makes me wonder what My Bloody Valentine (surely the... Read more
Published 7 months ago by A. Clarke
Pay To Look Cheap
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... Read more
Published on 2 Mar 2010 by Faux
M83 saturdays youth
Buy this Album- its stunning and beautiful summerish and summer rainish ,this is in my top 5 fav's, M83's ambience is magickal and encapsulating, its more of a day time into... Read more
Published on 2 May 2009 by A. Boar
Remeber the 80's
Talk talk, Human League, Soft Cell, Tubeway Army and OK more up to date Air. They are all in here and you won't listen to a more catchy and wistful album all year. Read more
Published on 7 Sep 2008 by Big Jim
The French can write dreamy electronics!
When I heard the magestic 'We own the Sky' with it's enchanting 'Frazier Chorus' type vocals and sweeping synths, I thought "Woaah, who is this? Read more
Published on 2 Jun 2008 by Ian
Haunting me
M83's music has always been very airy, synthy and vaguely abstract in nature. Very post-rock, very spacey electronica, but not pretentiously so. Read more
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