You need to listen to M83’s icy post-rock record Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts

New York City got deed with a hellhole of a snowstorm past week. And, inevitably, erstwhile I'm watching the snowfall fall, wandering the oddly quiescent streets aft dark, radical hiding wrong and staying warm, I enactment connected M83's sophomore record, Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts.

Before Nicolas Fromageau near the set and Anthony Gonzalez embraced accepted popular opus structures, saxophone solos, and teen angst, M83 released 2 albums of mostly instrumental music. The self-titled debut album is benignant of forgettable, but the 2nd 1 finds the French duo taking inspiration from the repetitive bombast of Mogwai and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Dead Cities …

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