Pitchfork

Saturdays=Youth, the latest from Anthony Gonzalez's M83, deservedly received a Best New Music nod today (the video for "Graveyard Girl" is a good intro to what the album is about). Pitchfork's Brian Howe noted that, "On its first two studio albums, M83 did one thing very, very well: create compact doses of tension and adrenaline. Saturdays=Youth meaningfully diversifies M83's catalog while retaining Gonzalez's indelible fingerprint." The "indelible fingerprint" Brian mentions is all over the M83 remix of Midnight Juggernauts' "Shadows"; one of the things I like about Gonzalez is how he sort of folds everything into his own world, M83-ing everything he touches. Here he transforms a low-key, vaguely funky dance-rock tune from the Australian band into a slow-motion, blissed-out journey to the Cloud City.

Stream:> Midnight Juggernauts: "Shadows (M83 Remix)"

[from the Shadows EP; out now Astralwerks; original track from Dystopia; out now in Australia on Siberia/EMI; due in the U.S. 05/27/08 on Astralwerks]