Organs or keyboards have that 'shake' and that vibrato to their notes - think of a Hammond- so keyboards usually sound more tense. On "Saturdays=Youth, we get more pianos, and pianos sound pretty, in the way that crystal is pretty- it could break, it can break hearts. Right on the very first track, we have this new use of keys clearly presented: Less notes and more chords, with little or no gaps between chords, instead of plunked out, single piano keystrokes. The keys/synths M83 usually uses are like an acid-bath wash of synths. The keys more typical of M83 are still here- see Coleurs- but they get plus-piano'ed. SO, beacuse of 80's/(and) movies this album has more voices, and an instrument made of wood, not plastic: The Piano! Although, really, Kim and Jessie are just friends. However, in M83, Couples, when they exist, are always IN L- O- V- E).Īs we can witness in Kim and Jessie.mp3. One can turn into the other, potentially any number of times, especially in movies (remember WE ARE STILL TALKING ABOUT MOVIES and M83). Sometimes they even show TWO PEOPLE: these are called 'Couples', and they come in a two types: in L- O- V- E, or, Broken Up. It has too be- it revolves around (allegedly was ''inspired by''), and produces a sense of, 80's movies- the 80's were the "ME decade", right, so there has to be a Me, or a You that me sees: movies show people. This album is more human than the others. We just fall asleep when we get tired, about when the second movie we put on is almost over. The get-together is in a basement, but a finished one: carpeted, everywhere. some others won't go to college, even though they could if they wanted. Some of these kids at the party have just dropped out of high school. the Wild One, or Pretty in Pink, or Nightmare on Elm Street but more probably Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Japanese movies, including but not limited to anime (but your friends call it Manga), or something in black and white ("M" by Fritz Lang would work), or The Breakfast Club, Beetlejuice or the first Batman, or The Crow, maybe even Fast Times At Ridgemont High. We might end up watching a movie at some point, a movie that most of us will have seen before. Nobody is drinking- we're in high school (it's not that kind of get-together)- we're not like those football players who drink cans till they fall over in a parking lot. There won't be snacks out or anything, but you could make yourself something in the kitchen upstairs if you wanted. candles, but they weren't lit specially for the party. Whoever is sitting nearest the record when it stops puts on another one. There will be records, actual records played. "Saturdays=Youth" is better for a different kind of driving.ĭriving, still, but driving through a light rain, through mist.īut to a party, no: a gathering, NO: a 'get-together', a small party where you will know, and like, everyone. Other M83 albums are perfect for that driving. you have to be on edge as not to be caught sleeping, or looking too close to where your car actually is, but rather looking out, covering with your eyes the whole road on which you are driving. When driving late at night on a empty stretch of interstate highway (I-5), you need something that keeps you looking out out far into the darkness, which approaches just as it recedes, and so looks the same now as it did five minutes ago. There is an edge or tension or 'drama' to those songs, and one which cycles around. Driving with your jaw set and eyes narrowed. The other M83 albums end up being very very good for driving. (This is general:) High School and Its Attendant Feelings.Ĭynical Sensualist Romanticism (the heart knows no lies)("they are in love with romance, and illusions")(:This is specific).Ĭar Chase Terror! (from "Before the Dawn Heals Us") M83 is a band that explodes out of the following primordial brew:įrance and America (the place, for the former - the feeling of, for the latter) ĭrum Machines Over live drummers, Every Time
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