M83’s 2008 album Saturdays=Youth struck a chord with just about everyone that heard it. Its healthy slice of retro synth and hazy nostalgia was finely balanced with genuinely great songwriting, catchy melodies altogether creating a set of gourgeous soundscapes that altogether made for truly joyous listening. Anthony Gonzalez, the man behind M83, has been taking his time in following up this breakthrough (Saturdays being M83’s fifth album, but undoubtedly their most successful), leaving fans new and old quite anxious.
Thankfully we finally have some concrete details on the album, courtesy of an interview with Spin. Firstly, and perhaps most excitingly, it will be a double album. And it sounds as though the sound of the album will fit this expansive format, with Gonzalez repetitively using words like “big” and “epic” and “orchestral” to describe the sound. And the themes of the album revolve all around dreams, which to me sounds like the perfect topic for M83 to tackle.
The album will also feature a collaboration with Zola Jesus, which Gonzalez says is “almost a duet.”
Read the full interview here, in which Gonzalez makes the album sound almost too good to be true, but we’ll have to wait a little while longer to hear it, as it is slated for October.
