Farsong Blog-o-Matic - Saturdays = Youth

I've been listening to M83's new album, Saturdays = Youth almost continuously since last night, and I love it. It's exactly like what I was looking for seven years ago when I started watching 80s movies and listening to more than just Jazz. It's full of detached and sometimes buzzing synth, and it's big. It's M83. It's the 80s if they happened two decades later, full of quiet utterances of darkness in major keys. It's a view of the black and white of teenage years, filtered through the never-absolute greys of adulthood.

It's M83, without a doubt. It's one of those albums that I can sit and listen to repeatedly, all the way through. Yes, there are some tracks I love more than others, but it's a whole thing; an album, and it's genuine.

The track “Graveyard Girl”: