Initial tweets and crowd reactions say this was one of the better sounding shows to ever happen at the venue.įantasy was the main focus of the night, making up ten songs out of the nineteen song set, The setlist just being three songs short of performing the whole album in it’s entirety. Palace’s acoustics and sound system has become widely known to upper midwest concert aficionados for it’s great sound, and a band like M83 – who has layers and layers of synths and guitar pedals – needs as much depth as they can get. The Palace Theatre was an apt choice for the show. The resulting album is full with experimental jamming that still is grounded in M83’s sound. The album was meant to have more of a cohesive “Band in a room” feel according to frontman Anthony Gonzalez, in comparison to previous efforts with minimal personel. It’s almost impossible to understate their importance to the genre, and for former budding filmmakers who abused both songs in slow motion scenes…like myself.īut a deep dive into M83’s history shows that 2011’s hallmark album for the band, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, was the band’s sixth album, and that they’ve released three more albums since then, including their latest effort, 2023’s Fantasy. Since then, their synth-pop sound has been replicated by bedroom DIYers and studio bands alike, but none have come close to matching. Midnight City and Outro are both songs that were the cornerstones of cinematic, euphoric moments in films and commercials since M83 released the songs back in 2011. But the band has much more depth than the one-or-two hit songs used for every cinematic moment in the last ten years. You’ve heard an M83 song whether you’ve known it or not.
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