Dead Cities Red Seas & Lost Ghosts [Import]

M83 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 29, 2003)
• Original Release Date: April 15, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B0000AISL4
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #149,017 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Birds

2. Unrecorded

3. Run Into Flowers

4. In Church

5. America

6. On A White Lake, Near A Green Mountain

7. Noise

8. Be Wild

9. Cyborg

10. 0078h

11. Gone

12. Beauties Can Die

Editorial Reviews

Full Title - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts. From electronica to ambient, M83's distinct sound is both modern & melodic. The group makes machines seem human by endowing them with a mysterious & innocent character, one that mirrors the personality of the band. The followup to their self-titled debut album, released in 2001. This new release features 12 tracks. Labels/Mute. 2003.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good but not worth import price, December 25, 2003

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Matthew Gross (Nanuet, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dead Cities Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (Audio CD)

There are a lot of things to like about this album. It was electronic French music that didn't sound like air. It was an album that relied heavily on the keyboard and didn't sound like Mu-Ziq. Most shockingly though was that the band set out to make a My Bloody Valentine record and actually succeeded. To be fair, Loveless was a once in a lifetime accomplishment and Kevin Shields' masterpiece will never be replicated with a bunch of cheesy synths. Dead Cities won't have that album's indeffinate selflife, but given what their working with, its about as close as you're going to come.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Synthesizer "Loveless", June 22, 2004

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Kurt Lennon (Calgary) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dead Cities Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (Audio CD)

Doing for synths what MBV did for guitars, French duo M83 have created an intensely beautiful wall of sound that is sometimes so dense as to be overwhelming. Named after a gorgeous spiral galaxy in the Andromeda Strain (and not after a noxious British freeway), the music is appropriate to their moniker: it is a swirling mass of thick sound alive with mystery and beauty. The songs melt together into a glacier destroying everything in sight, but they maintain individual entities, and for every massive moment like "In Church" or "Cyborg" there are moments of fleeting fragilty like "Beauties Can Die", a fourteen minute treasure that spends most of its time in reverent silence.
Because of its import status, this wasn't in consideration for many top ten lists from 2003, which is a shame: in hindsight, it was a rather weak year for music, and this album is head and shoulders above other releases from those twelve months - even if it was only in Europe. Get it today! It is well worth the money, especially if you find it for cheaper.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Synths galore!, August 14, 2003

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Jed Sundwall "Jed" (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dead Cities Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (Audio CD)

I was lucky enough to be in France a few months back and I picked up a copy of this fine album based on the pitchfork praise. I didn't know what to think when I first gave it a spin.

Here's the deal...you know that anthemic synth sound at the beginning of Van Halen's "Jump?" Well, this album takes similar synth sounds, plays chords, has them drone over the entire album, adds layers of more synths, adds drums, some great droning guitar and some occasional vocals. It's like My Bloody Valentine's Loveless, but with more synths instead of guitars. If that sounds good to you, you'll love this album. However, it took me off guard at first.

So yeah, four stars, it's a great album, but a few mediocre tracks keep it from being perfect.