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10.0
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10.0 |
Independent on Sunday
It sounds like a soundtrack for the end of the world, or the birth of new worlds. Extraordinary
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9.1
33717
9.1 |
Pitchfork
The traditionally structured songs here are some of the most thrilling pop music released this year
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9.0
33742
9.0 |
Prefix
Where Dawn used the widescreen drama to ratchet up the dread and illustrate the sinister doom that lurked around every corner, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming expands upward and outward with a sense of hope, happiness, and even humor
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9.0
33749
9.0 |
Bowlegs
One of the best double albums we’ve heard for a very long time, and his finest record to date
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9.0
33713
9.0 |
Under The Radar
A 22-track, double album of stunningly ambitious, synth-soaked dreams
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9.0
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9.0 |
Rave Magazine
It’s a big album, but stick with it and it’s a rewarding one
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9.0
33661
9.0 |
The Fly
A glorious double-album and a towering testament to unadulterated ambition
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9.0
34965
9.0 |
DIY
A surprisingly compact, easily absorbed, enjoyable album, and an epic, inflated journey, but not an arduous one. Truly a double album of worthy of the format
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8.6
33712
8.6 |
Beats Per Minute
A record that shines a stark and revealing light on M83's decade-long career as one of the most consistently interesting and inimitable acts indie music has
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8.5
32766
8.5 |
The AU Review
A hypnotic, exhilarating and sincere record
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Skinny
Consider this as a “greatest hits” of unreleased material that celebrates all that is and has been great about ten years of M83
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8.0
32770
8.0 |
Q
A wildly ambitious, often visionary record. Print edition only
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8.0
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No Ripcord
An incredibly detailed, layered album
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8.0
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8.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
An incredibly ambitious and personal effort that shines, sparkles, and thrills
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8.0
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8.0 |
Daily Telegraph
It’s surprisingly exhilarating stuff
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8.0
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8.0 |
AU Review
An album majestic in scope and execution, which shows that – improbable as it seems – Anthony Gonzalez’s sky-scraping ambition is matched by his talent
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Quietus
Snatches of movie-styled dialogue augment the storytelling as you're spirited away in synths that soar and dive
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8.0
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8.0 |
State
A full embodiment of what music celebrating the power of dreams should be, an experience that is as elaborate, vivid, and moving as the dreams it hopes to emulate
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8.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
The veneer of this record is pristine and every touch of gloss or larger than life facade feels slightly unreal – too big to fully grasp
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8.0
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Tiny Mix Tapes
An engrossing listen
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8.0
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8.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
An engrossing listen
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8.0
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8.0 |
Blurt
Gonzalez paints broad strokes on this vast musical landscape, and although a wee long, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming may be his conceptual masterpiece
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7.1
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7.1 |
Paste Magazine
As with everything the Frenchman’s done so far, the album is lush and ably produced, crescendo after crescendo
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7.0
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7.0 |
PopMatters
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming is M83's "epic", which means that it's just like every other M83 album, only moreso
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7.0
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musicOMH
Minor niggles aside it is a testament to the fine songwriting skill of Gonzalez. It possesses some of M83's most varied material to date, yet still functions as a coherent body of work
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7.0
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BBC
While some consistency may have been sacrificed in favour of a space-filling selection of tracks, this set still represents a heaving, breathing journey through the introspective and the bombastic, the striving and the exhaustive.
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7.0
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7.0 |
Spin
No one is better, or more single-minded, when it comes to evoking dream-pop awe
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7.0
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NME
An album full of hidden pleasures
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6.7
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6.7 |
A.V. Club
For an album of such impressive scale and nanoscopic attention to detail, Dreams leaves a surprisingly light impression
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6.0
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6.0 |
Scotland on Sunday
The album has some lovely moments that are lost in the sprawl of it all
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6.0
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6.0 |
Rolling Stone
A mix of beat-driven anthems and gauzy ambience that moves like a restless night's sleep
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6.0
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The Observer
Gonzalez's commitment to excess can get a little wearying but the road-movie rush of highlights of "Midnight City" is hard to beat
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6.0
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6.0 |
Mojo
Employs banks of multi-tracked vocals, waves of epic Sigur Ros-style synths and a celestial production. Print edition only
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6.0
33363
6.0 |
Clash
There’s a lot of slightly tedious ambient wallpaper
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6.0
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6.0 |
Uncut
So spectacularly grandiose you have to wear 3D specs to hear it properly. Print edition only
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6.0
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6.0 |
Evening Standard
He loses his way on the quieter numbers. But when he's backed by big Eighties beats, as on OK Pal, this album is epic in more than just its length
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Irish Times
It’s a full-bodied and widescreen affair, the producer working his magic with familiar shades of dream-pop, melancholic synth symphonies and hazy ambient swathes of sound
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5.8
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5.8 |
Pretty Much Amazing
You cannot escape the feeling that perhaps wanting to create a record that is “very, very, very epic” got in the way of it becoming coheren
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5.0
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5.0 |
Slant Magazine
Marks their first musical regression in a decade-long career
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5.0
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5.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Double albums are necessarily somewhat hit and miss. That’s part of their pick’n’mix charm. But M83 mostly miss me here
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