#2099 M83 - Junk

What's Gonzalez playing at here? Is this just a pisstake? A panic move?

Look. It happens, especially after a giant double album. Billy Corgan broke up with guitars, Genesis jettisoned Peter Gabriel, Gunsnroses put out an album called " "The Spaghetti Incident?" " (?), and Aphex Twin straight nonexisted for a decade or so.

So M83 puts out an album with a post-post-post-ironic terrible cover, calls it "Junk", and fills it with junk - just castoff b-side-sounding lukewarm sub-pop nonsense, with none of the hookiness of their hits, none of the emotional sweep of their recent highlights, none of the wall of sound scope of their early shit, kicking out everything about the band except "the 80's" leaving a hacky, unmemorable pastiche, Random Access Memories without the sneaky greatness.


This is an ok album // a bad M83 album.

It's a mistake; a total abandonment of everything that made the band worth hearing. It will not be remembered fondly, other than as "that weird shitty thing they did after Hurry Up"

You make your big opus, spanning two discs -- and then what?

Let's hope this is just a fuckoff to shake off expectations and not the last gasp of a dying act past its lifespan 2.5/5