In an interview with Pitchfork, M83 mastermind Anthony Gonzalez, newly relocated to L.A., said to expect his sixth album/followup to 2008′s Saturdays=Youth to be “very, very, very epic,” “very orchestrated,” very long, very cinematic, and (very?) “dreamy, powerful, intense.” (He’s also “singing much more”on it.) As far as templates, he’s looking back to 2005′s excellently over-the-top Before the Dawn Heals Us, an album I reviewed for P4K five years ago, though it feels like a decade, or 10 years. Besides offering additional adjectives, Gonzalez tells the site he’ll be working with Saturdays vocalist Morgan Kibby and Beck/Mars Volta/Nine Inch Nails bassist Justin Meldal-Johnsen and that instead of following the last record’s “bright” “pop” sound with more brightness, he plans on “going darker.” (Hence the Misfits shirt.) All of which sounds good to me. Read more at Pitchfork. As for the second half of the headline, judge for yourself:
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I can’t wait for this album. One of my favorite albums of all time is M83‘s “Before the Dawn Heals Us” (2005). When they released their 2008 album “Saturdays = Youth” it was a disappointment for me. Not because the album wasn’t good (it was), but it was not the same genre as their 2005 album. It was indie rock, instead of cinematic, operatic, space shoegaze, epic, electro-classical music. The problem was that no one else was writing such music, or as well. It was like seeing a metal worker, one of the last ones creating Samurai swords by hand, to leave his job, and go work for a factory. Just didn’t sit well with me. So I’m very happy to see M83 returning to the “Before the Dawn Heals Us” sound. Yes!