M83-New Wave Pop/Ambient/Indie

M83 was started in 2001 by French musician, Anthony Gonzalez and also former artist Nicholas Formageau in France. They released their first self-titled debut album in 2001 but were really recognized after the release of their second full length album in 2003: "Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts."  Shortly after the tour of Dead Cities... Nicholas left the band and Anthony took it back to the studio. In January 2005, The third album: Before the Dawn Heals Us was released. Along with this release came the remixes of many other songs including "The Pioneers" by Bloc Party. After recording a collection of Ambient works, the fourth album, Digital Shades Vol. 1 was released with the help of Antoine Gaillet. M83's fifth full album, Saturdays= Youth was released in 2008 and is by far the most structured. The theme of Saturdays according to Antoine, is mainly inspiration from 80's music. In an interview according to Wikipedia, Gonzalez said, "I think that 80's music is such a brilliant period in music history. It was the occasion for me to do a tribute to 80's music, but also a tribute to my teenage years because the main theme of the album is being a teenager, and being a teenager means a lot to me."...  


Four of M83's most popular singles were released in this album as well. Two of these are "colours" and "We Own The Sky". An AWESOME fact (In my opinion people!) is that M83 also supported Kings of Leon on their UK tour. Along with them, they also toured with The Killers. M83 is LEGIT people.

Recently, in 2011 Gonzalez started working on, as Wiki says, "A new batch of songs". According to Gonzalez, the new songs will be "darker and very, very, very, EPIC." His newest album, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming was released in July and features popular single "Midnight City".

Guys, as a side note...If you know me or have read my Bio you know I'm a shredder. SO, to sum this band up...it makes for some SICK shredding tunes. SO download their shiz, plug in your ipod, iphone or whatever, and blast M83 on the slopes.

"We Own The Sky" Music Video Sample:

"Midnight City Music Video Sample:

Pictures retrieved from Google and Wikipedia. Quotes retrieved from Wikipedia.