M83

M83 has announced a new album heading our way in just a couple of weeks with the upcoming "I Wrote You a Letter."  Been a big fan of the Anthony Gonzalez project since its inception 25 years ago.  Listen to the epic, beautiful, and dreamy new track "Blister Sunrise" below and pre-order the LP here.

Daily Jam - Lower Your Eyelids to Die with the Sun

It's very hard for me to comprehend that M83's third album "Before the Dawn Heals Us" can legally drink now.  My god.  Anyway, enjoy the epic and sprawling album closer "Lower Your Eyelids to Die with the Sun" below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Couleurs

Man, it's been a long ass day.  Here's some M83 to carry me away.  Listen to "Couleurs" below, our Daily Jam.

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M83 is releasing new music next month with the upcoming soundtrack album "A Necessary Escape," a film score for the French documentary "Dakar Chronicles."  Pre-order it here on Anthony Gonzales's new Other Suns record label and listen to the beautiful and somber "A Necessary Escape (Part 2)" below.

Daily Jam - Gone

Here's a gorgeous track from M83's 2003 sophomore album "Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts."  Listen to the breathtaking "Gone" below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Farewell / Goodbye

It's wild to think that i've been listening to M83 for over 20 years now.  Just an insane thing to realize.  Anyway, here's one of my favs from 2005's "Before the Dawn Heals Us."  Listen to "Farewell / Goodbye" below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Un Nouveau Soleil

Music is powerful. It soundtracks my life. I assume it often soundtracks yours as well. From every day background noise to gentle, sensory tacks for our fondest or darkest memories, the songs we listen to can paint pictures in our heads, a nostalgic scrapbook in the inner recesses of our brains. But every so often, I hear a song that creates just as vivid an image or sequence of events in my mind that also happens to be completely fabricated. These aren’t false memories or anything, but more like daydreams, some sad or happy, or like visual themes come to life via melody. I tend to get a picture in my head that then informs the way I hear the music, adding all kinds of layers to the artist’s original intentions or design that are really meaningful only to me.

And in a way it becomes my own.

Music sure is wonderful that way.

French Synth pop artist M83 has always made dramatic, cinematic music, even long before Anthony Gonzalez scored an actual film, as on 2013’s You and The Night. But it’s that film’s and soundtrack’s closing number, the beautiful and soaring “Un Nouveau Soleil,” that cements itself into my psyche with the inner visuals I’ve attributed to it. I see a gathering of old friends. I see a grand church or cathedral. I see a hazy light and somber faces as they lay one of their own to rest. I also see reconnections. I see reflections. I see tears and smiles and loving embraces. And then ascension.

If you are familiar with You and The Night at all, then you realize that my mental association is far, far off from what the film actually depicts. But these moving images come into play every time I listen to the song, and while it might make it difficult to hear it in any other context outside of the one I’ve created for it, it certainly makes the song deeply personal to me.

As it should be.

Daily Jam - Sister (Part 1)

M83 released the excellent "Fantasy" LP earlier this year.  But here's a track from 2007.  Listen to "Sister (Part 1)" below, our Daily Jam.

M83

Yesterday, we got a new song and video from Anthony Gonzalez's long-running synth project M83, along with the announcement of the upcoming "Fantasy" LP in March.  "Oceans Niagara" soars and sweeps with all the cinematic flourishes we've come to expect over the years, feeling wistful and powerful all at once.  Check it out below and pre-order the record here from Mute.

Daily Jam - On a White Lake, Near a Green Mountain

I've got to travel for work later this afternoon.  I'm not excited about that at all, though a few hours of roadway and music might be nice.  Here's an old track from M83.  Listen to "On a White Lake, Near a Green Mountain" below, our Daily Jam.

M83 - Feelings

M83 has a new album of instrumental tracks out today called "DSVII," the sequel to 2007's "Digital Shades Vol. 1."  I've always been able to dig on M83's music, soaring or otherwise, so this is a pleasant surprise (i just found out about this yesterday).  Check out the video for "Feelings" below, but maybe don't watch this one at work.  There's a lot of phallic stuff going on is what i'm saying.  Then look for the record on Mute.

Daily Jam - Safe

M83 is easily one of my most favorite artists of the millennium, their soaring, often epic synths driving straight into my heart and soul.  Here's "Safe" from 2005's "Before the Dawn Heals Us," our Daily Jam.

Friday Horror Trailer - Knife + Heart

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I have an ever growing list of movies, both old and new, that i want to see, and one of those is the latest from Yann Gonzalez, "Knife + Heart."  From what i understand, the film is basically a kind of homage to an old Giallo, but set within the gay porno industry, and with score from M83.  Everything about that sounds amazing.  This is the second film score that M83 has done for the filmmaker, and as M83's Anthony Gonzalez is the brother of the director, i'll assume we'll get even more in the future.  Anyway, i haven't seen the film yet, but the score is fantastic.  Listen to "Un Couteau Dans Le Coeur" below and get the record here from Mute.

M83 - Do It, Try It

So it looks like we've got a new album from M83 heading our way in April, the first since 2011.  "Junk" sounds like it will be a fun and playful record...and maybe a little weird.  Take a listen to the goofy, but catching album opener "Do It, Try It" below and get the record next month from Mute.

Jean-Michel Jarre and M83

I'm not sure how i managed to miss this beautiful collaboration between French electronic composer Jean-Michel Jarre and M83 last May, but here's the video for "Glory" in all of its...um...glory.  The tune will be featured on an upcoming album from Jarre that also features assists from Massive Attack and Tangerine Dream (recorded before Edgar Froese passed away).  Should be pretty cool.  Watch the video below.

M83 - Ali & Matthias

After some pretty excellent work on the soundtrack to "Oblivion" earlier this year, M83 has another movie score in the pipeline, this time for Anthony Gonzalez's brother Yann's film, "You and the Night."  The song "Ali & Matthias" sounds different than most of M83's previous work, more organic, less synthetic.  At any rate, Gonzalez has said that the music is an homage to the scores from 1970's French love films.  I'm hooked.  Listen below and be on the lookout for the digital release later this month on Mute, and a physical one sometime next year.