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An album like this extends far beyond your speakers, guiding you through an impossibly rich, detailed world of sound while also giving you room to explore it yourself; you don't listen to Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, you inhabit it.
11y
91
Like MBV, there are a couple scant times when the album begins to blur the tiniest bit, when one feedback noise becomes somewhat indistinct from that in another song. But despite a few lulls and the just plain fucking weird intro track, this album is in its own stratosphere.
90
In Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, M83 have created an ethereal electronic masterpiece, and one which, thankfully, doesn't sound like a relic from the Warp Records back catalogue.
80
M83 is a keyboard band of the best kind: one with nuance, tone, thrash, and color.
11y
80
A Herculean instrumental epic of beautiful depth, staggering grandiosity and extraterrestrial soundscapes.
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2w
50
The melodies and harmonic dissonances hidden beneath the dense layers of white noise are interesting, even beautiful, but you get the sense that they’re accidental.
Ive rewritten my review for this album atlest 3 or 4 times already, but dammit, im doing it again now!
DeadCities is a goddamn masterpiece. It is one of those albums that just completely floors me every single time I put it on. Every track just completely gives off so many emotions and feelings all at once. Case in point, the track "Run Into Flowers", with its nostalgia filled synths and drum loops that spark joy in me all the time, and then the anxiety inducing "America" ... read more
Somewhere, high in the sky with the wind passing by, I spy a small winter town.
It’s built off contrast. While the outpost was built elevated in the mountains, where gray snow stays year round and the trees are rarely in bloom, the houses are brightly colored. Hung with lanterns and painted with different shades of the rainbow, it creates an inviting aura in what would otherwise be a bleak, unwelcoming setting. While the landscape is unforgiving and cold as ice, the people there are warm ... read more
It’s albums like this that make me just love music with every fiber of my body.
The highs on this record are nearly breathtaking, easily some of the best shoe gaze I have heard in tracks like 'Unrecorded' and 'Be Wild'. I certainly can see why this album has a cult following behind it. I do think though that several tracks tend to really struggle to reach those same heights. Maybe this is just me getting used to shoe gaze as a genre as I haven't listened to it much before- either way still a great album
Sometimes I like to just sit and take a moment to love my life. I think you do it by literally doing nothing. Listening to music and watching lights move and feeling
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Track List
| 1 | Birds 0:53 | 81 |
| 2 | Unrecorded 4:11 | 94 |
| 3 | Run Into Flowers 4:09 | 94 |
| 4 | In Church 3:58 | 93 |
| 5 | America 3:06 | 90 |
| 6 | On a White Lake, Near a Green Mountain 4:43 | 94 |
| 7 | Noise 3:54 | 90 |
| 8 | Be Wild 3:19 | 91 |
| 9 | Cyborg 3:48 | 89 |
| 10 | 0078H 4:01 | 87 |
| 11 | Gone 6:07 | 96 |
| 12 | Beauties Can Die 14:36 | 93 |
Total Length: 56 minutes
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