M83 – Saturdays = Youth (Vinyl) The Smiths tension peaks and melancholy notes

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" Cave and Ellis' sonic and lyrical adventurism continues apace on Carnage

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M83 – Saturdays = Youth (Vinyl) The Smiths tension peaks and melancholy notesThe fifth album for the French electronic group, M83, led by Anthony Gonzalez was produced with Ken Thomas and Ewan Pearson. Theres a slide towards more abstract material toward the latter half, and some parts of Saturdays=Youth are all hairspray and no body, but the whole thing sweeps along with such an irrepressible mix of youthful invincibility (We Own The Sky) and flouncing fatalism (Too Late, Graveyard Girl) it sucks the wind right out of your