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M83 – Saturdays=Youth
Reviewed by Mike
Saturdays=Youth is M83’s fifth full length release, seeing store shelves on April 14th 2008. For those not familiar, M83 is led by Anthony Gonzalez with a home base of France. The group has always had an outstanding ear for texture and tone within the electronic realm, and Saturdays=Youth proves to be no different. Gonzalez had a large task at hand: how do you top the critically acclaimed Dead Cities and Before the Dawn Heals Us? The answer was simple. You can’t. So Gonzalez entered the studio looking to mix things up a bit.
1. You, Appearing 9.0
The album begins with heavy piano, soon followed by shimmering synth whispers on both sides of the stereo field. This template builds up with various string sounds, and the repeated line:
It’s your face
Where we are
Save me
Is it a flashback to the past, or a look forward? Either way it sounds like we’re about to be saved.
2. Kim and Jessie: 8.5
Somebody lurks in the shadows
Somebody whispers
Top Gun meets Jack and Diane.
3. Skin of the Night: 9.7
Huge 80’s sounding drums, circling, stabbing guitar with haunting female vocals. The uncouth lyrics touch on all we have(our own bodies):
She pulls back her skin to show her ribs
Simply flesh on flesh with galaxies over our head. Morbid, but true.