Saturdays = Youth. A perfect theme for M83’s sonic sentimentality in an age of musical irony. In the rush to co-opt and comment on the 1980’s in music and film, lesser musicians have created callow copies of the originals. But on Anthony Gonzalez’s rich electronic canvas, he brushes the music and images he loves with an authentic sonic quality all of their own. “Graveyard Girl” updates eighties shoegaze and pays homage to John Hughes. “Kim and Jessie” is a lush, nostalgic vision of teenage wonder and angst. And “Couleurs” is a heady mix of the decade’s atmospherics.
December 19, 2008
7. Saturdays = Youth / M83
Saturdays = Youth. A perfect theme for M83’s sonic sentimentality in an age of musical irony. In the rush to co-opt and comment on the 1980’s in music and film, lesser musicians have created callow copies of the originals. But on Anthony Gonzalez’s rich electronic canvas, he brushes the music and images he loves with an authentic sonic quality all of their own. “Graveyard Girl” updates eighties shoegaze and pays homage to John Hughes. “Kim and Jessie” is a lush, nostalgic vision of teenage wonder and angst. And “Couleurs” is a heady mix of the decade’s atmospherics.
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