Four years on from the Grammy nominated, critically acclaimed release “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming” (featuring platinum selling single Midnight City), French electronic act M83 has re-issued their first three albums in addition to the two digital EPs featuring remixes and B-sides from those albums out this week. Out of print for several years, “M83” (2001), “Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts” (2004), and “Before the Dawn Heals Us” (2005) are available now on CD, vinyl, and digital download via Mute.
M83 has become a household name amongst music lovers due to extensive success across many formats. Since “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming”, not only has M83’s Anthony Gonzalez scored two films: Oblivion (featuring Tom Cruise) and You and the Night (directed by his brother Yann Gonzalez), but his music has been used across a plethora of movies, television shows and commercials, most recently in films The Fault In Our Stars, The Vampire Diaries, and 22 Jump Street. At radio, M83 reached #1 on the CMJ charts, #1 at Commercial Specialty, and #5 in Commercial Alternative Radio, while receiving rave reviews from publications across the world, including Pitchfork, Spin, Entertainment Weekly, XLR8R, Filter, and countless others.
