Where M83 transported you Saturday night largely depended on where you started. If you’re a child of the ’80s, Anthony Gonzalez and crew had you right where they wanted you — blithely sliding on a sheen of muscular synth back to the pre-Ritalin days of “The Breakfast Club,” that era before cynicism put a lid […]
Talk about your head trips. “Alpinisms,” the debut album released last month by School of Seven Bells, sounds almost as if it was written by algorithm, its precise latticework of electronics, guitar and vocals somehow forming music that is stark, visceral and downright hallucinatory. It’s work that was fermented in the studio for several years, […]
[M83 keyboardist-singer Morgan Kibby continues her diary as the band’s tour with School of Seven Bells wends its way toward Saturday’s date at the Music Box @ Fonda. Additionally, it was announced Tuesday that M83 will join the Killers on tour for 14 dates in January and early February. Details after the diary. Previous diaries […]
[Keyboardist-singer Morgan Kibby resumes her tour diary as M83 embarks on the U.S. leg of its tour. Previous diaries here.] Chapter 17: The U.S tour is already over a week old, and weirdly enough I wish that I hadn’t gotten out of the rhythm of touring by going home. It’s sooooo hard to get back […]
