[Links to previous M83 installments at bottom of this post] Chapter 4: In the back of a rental car speeding toward Paris, there are suitcases, a drum set and lots of Red Bull, which, until recently, was illegal in France. Oh, and me. We just completed rehearsal in Antibes and are trying to make Paris […]
[Here’s the third installment of M83 singer-keyboardist Morgan Kibby’s tour diary. Previously: Intro, Chapter 1, Chapter 2.] Chapter 3: I don’t readily buy into clichés or stereotypes.” But I’m also not stubborn enough to insist they appear out of thin air, and though I hate to admit it, I embodied one of my favorites today: […]
Meet Morgan Kibby. She’s 24, makes her home in Los Angeles and fronts the chamber-pop ensemble the Romanovs. For most of 2008, Kibby has lent her ethereal voice to the French shoegaze-pop sensation M83, whose April release, “Saturdays = Youth,” is one of most critically lauded albums of the year. And over the next couple […]