I had previously not lucky enough to see the French again live on stage, but have to say after the streaky first album "Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts" (2003): The boys have learned it! What awaits us in this album, reminiscent only in broad approaches to the predecessor, which was almost completely computer generated and lacked natural soft tones painful. 2005, however, outweigh warm soundscapes of votes (choirs), drums, strings and everything the musical repertoire will bear. The opener "Moonchild" comes wabernd, easily - before later bombastic and oddly satisfying. With a good system and high volume certainly one of the best songs of this album. Who this kind of ears Schmauss like, the is also "I Guess I'm Floating", "Let Men Burn Stars" or "Lower Your Eyelids To Die With The Sun" placed on selfsame album warmly. Better it would have (you excuse the comparison) Mike Oldfield can not make. The slightly faster songs "Do not Save Us From The Flames", "Teen Angst" or "A Guitar And A Heart" know also very convincing. Nevertheless, a warning to all those who do not know M83: It's not rock and above all, no techno! I paraphrase it like as an experimental electric music and joins (almost) seamlessly into the ranks of "Air" a. Four stars for a really surprisingly successful work.
