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M83 announces album that you’re not going to listen to
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 2 March 2016
M83 has announced that his seventh album, ‘Junk’, will be released through Naïve on 8 Apr.
Describing the inspiration behind the new record, main man Anthony Gonzalez says: “I want to show different sides of me on this album. I want to come back with something more intimate, yet somehow with… less me!”
On the title he adds, in more depth: “Anything we create today is going to end up being space junk at one point anyway, and I find it really fascinating and scary at the same time – beautiful too in a way. I have this image of pieces of humanity floating in space, lost forever”.
“It also means that nowadays everything goes so fast and everybody is kind of throwing away art in a certain manner”, he continues. “People will listen to an album for instance and just pick a track they like to put on a playlist. They’re not going to take the time to listen to an album anymore because they have to jump on the next thing”.
Well, in that case, let’s all save ourselves a lot of time and just listen to first single ‘Do It, Try It’, and then move on:
