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Music : Before the Dawn Heals Us
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Before the Dawn Heals Us by: M83 List Price: $11.98 CD-Charts Price: $10.99 You Save: $0.99 ( 8%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 7245969281272 Label: Mute U.S. Manufacturer: Mute U.S. Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Mute U.S. Release Date: January 25, 2005 Studio: Mute U.S. Sales Rank: 14866 MPN: 9281 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Most druggy music chooses clearly between ecstasy and horror; Anthony Gonzalez deliberately blurs the emotional borders. The French musician, now a one-man-band following the departure of partner Nicolas Fromageau, communicates an awareness that even as the darkest trips have a sick thrill to them, the most pleasurable parts of a lysergic voyage have a creepy aftertaste. On the opener, "Moon Child," you can hear both creepiness and pleasure, as a lucid yet happily stoned female voice reveals that "The whole universe will glow," contrasting ominously with the sort of swelling background choirs Pink Floyd amassed when it was time for their big production numbers. And excitement and fear meld on "Don't Save Us From the Flames"; surreal snippets of lyrics ("Out of the flames/ A piece of brain in my hair/ The wheels are melting/ A ghost is screaming your name") are followed by the name "Tina" in a moan all-but indistinguishable from the airy synthesizers. Gonzalez is less adept at constructing structurally-complex compositions than at tunefully arranging sound effects--repetitive keyboard licks that could've been swiped from a '70s PBS documentary soundtrack and bone-scraping blasts of My Bloody Valentine guitar are among his favorite tricks. But his methods are justified by his sense of brevity, and careful alternating between two speeds--soft epic space-trance and vintage shoe-gazer rave-up--adds to the hallucinatory feel. --Keith Harris Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Dark LustI am completely blown away by this artist. Wish I would've known about them sooner. They would be great in setting the mood for a film. They sound like Broken Social Scene, Jennifer Charles, and Pink Floyd, and Sigur Ros. The vocals are soft and hypnotizing. Brilliant. Rating: - What I want to be playing at my funeralThis is one emotional album. To compare it to any other M83 albums would be difficult. While all their CD are great, Before the Dawn... in my opinion is a step up in the maturity level of the lyrics and in song craft compared to the likes of Dead Cities.. I suppose that Before the Dawn.. could be more compared to Natural Disaster era Anathema. Its really the same sort of thing, melancholy lyrics with beautiful passages paired with some female vocals. If you are an emotional sort, these songs may take you to places you dont want to be. They are very fatalistic and beautifully morose. I personally dont see too much redemption in this CD as some of these reviewers do, but thats up to interpretation. It just isnt a very happy CD. If I ever ... Read More: Rating:  - Blade Runner, without the blades or the running.Let's define beauty. There's a couple types. There's "as beautiful as a rock in a cop's face" beauty, and there's also "frilly dresses, makeovers, and rainbows" beauty. One type yields better art. Guess which one. Sure, it's possible to mix the two. In fact, it's encouraged. But that hasn't happened with this record. For all the pompous audacity of comparing this to My Bloody Valentine, there is no edge to "Before the Dawn Heals Us." Where Loveless suggests an entire organic spectrum of emotion, with a tenderized heart hiding behind the depressive and angry gloom of white noise guitars, M83's dry, soulless drum machines and keyboard arrangements miss the mark most of the time. Maybe it's unfair to compare M83 to a defining record of ... Read More: Rating:  - fin de siecle, fin du mondeA certain apocalyptic shadow hangs over "Before The Dawn Heals Us," a distinct feeling of scrambling for the few necessary supplies and the connections with our loved ones which alone will sustain us after the HUGE, IMPENDING DISASTER. This album's cinematic scope is present not only in the dynamics, which veer from soft crickets in the background of certain tracks to immense walls of dense sound that channel Kevin Shields and Sigur Ros simultaneously; but also in the feelings of panic and bliss that are alternately evoked -- sometimes the music is claustrophobic, sometimes open and expansive to the point of inducing agoraphobia. One of BTDHU's main strengths is that it is "electronica" that is not solely beat-driven -- there is no easy 4/4 to ... Read More: Rating: - BreathtakingI haven't called an album "Breathtaking" in a long time. I can't even remember the last time I did. But listening to Before the Dawn Heals Us from beginning to end, when there's not much going on around you and you're just sort of sitting on the bus at night or going for a fairly long car ride...It gives you this really great feeling. BTDHU is one of the most beautiful albums I've heard in a long time. It's sort of a...Post-Rock/Electronica/Indie thing. If you're into post-rock, definitely consider giving M83 a listen. You won't be disappointed. |
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