alnums of the decade - 46. M83- Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts

46. M83- Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (2003)

When I first heard this in my teens I felt a pang in my heart like when you feel love for the first time and your heart does all jittery beats and when hairs stand upright on your arm when you get out of the hot shower into the cold and when you feel a citrus buzz on the tip of your tongue. The music swirls, the soundscapes build and slap you silly eventually, but it's lovely so that's alright. M83 went quite poppy after this and that's alright too but this is great to hear as it puts things in context, like gives you an idea of the foundations that the then duo laid down for Anthony Gonzales to go sugary solo in the future. Oh sugary solo. This album though mixed influences of shoegaze and electronica to astronomical proportions. Or if you prefer Planet Earth, it's the aural equivalent of swimming down a waterfall.