Sydney Morning Herald: M83 – Wake Up We’re Dreaming review
If downloading’s dismantled the album format forever, no one’s told Anthony Gonzalez. On his sixth studio outing, the French-born, LA-based artist delivers not just a double album, but a double concept album dedicated to his dreams. It’s an expansive and at times exhilarating excursion that soars between dazzling digital-pop (‘Claudia Lewis’, ‘Reunion’) and towering soundscapes (‘Soon, My Friend’, ‘My Tears Are Becoming a Sea’), fuelled by Gonzalez’s spectral vocals, histrionic synth and epic shoegaze squalls. When he wraps it all around a melody like he does on ‘Midnight City’, it’s electro-pop alchelmy. And yet, just like a dream, other tracks here prove hard to recall after the fact. They leave pleasurable impressions, but not necessarily lasting ones. (Pod/Inertia)
3.5 out of 5
