Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (stylised without spaces) is the sixth studio album by French electronic music band M83. The album was released on 18 October 2011, by Naïve Records in France and by Mute Records in the United States. The album was the last M83 album with keyboardist Morgan Kibby before her departure, and the band's first full double album. The album received generally favourable reviews from critics. It debuted at number 15 on the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 21,000 copies, making it M83's highest-charting album to date. It sold 300,000 copies in the United States as of March 2016. The album was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the 2013 Grammy Awards and was ranked at number 134 on Pitchfork's list of "The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s" in October 2019.
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming is a nice French electronic / dream pop album. "Reunion" is a fantastic song. The first 6 tracks are great, but after these the quality drops and the songs get indistinguishable and boring.
This is pretty good. I think I recognised Midnight City from This is pretty good. I think I recognised Midnight City from somewhere. Interesting mix of electronic and indie rock. Drum machine was a bit cheap, especially in the snare, but eh. 4/5 based on the 45min I listened to - even that was only about halfway. I got the data I needed.
I normally give up on albums that last this long but this was so enjoyable and so different.
This album has a kind of grandiosity that I like very much! Some songs are very bombastic. While others are much more danceable. I thought of M83 to be a one hit wonder (Midnight City still is a banger), but this album proves me wrong
This was some nice 70s jazz with good variety to keep it interesting. The usual sax, steel drum song Opus Pocus… a lot to like here.
Very nice! 4 stars.
A bit long, but forgiven as it has 2 songs from the travis rice "higher" snowboard film soundtrack - when outro came on, all I could think about was Travis dropping out of a helicopter onto a crazy Alaskan spine in 1080p glorious slowmo
Synth-pop, ambient, shoegaze. Agradable para tenerlo de fondo. Un 4, venga.
Very much enjoyed this and even knew some! Although I don’t know where from.
This reminds me of early 20s. And I really appreciate it for what it is. It's not something I would listen to regularly, a bit too intense and epic. Definitely suited me more when I was younger. But I still think it's good music!
Hurry up, it’s that one song from those TikTok’s and others! Feels like this could’ve been on the list as a representation of the modern electro beep boop music but we still got here
New to me. Perfectly nice, finds a nice groove. Midnight City and the last song, Outro caught my ear and I also enjoyed Wait. 3.5 rounding up because it happened to be a nice day for gentle.
Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Midnight city, Wait, Ok pal, Year one one ufo, Steve McQueen,
Ethereal as shit, bro. I can get down. Not even really mad at the length. Just not quite enough range for it. 4/5
Never heard of M83, although I know "Midnight City". Enjoyed listening to this one while walking the dog, taking in the nature surrounding me, nobody bothering me. Pleasant experience. Quite enjoyed the story of the LSD trip caused by a frog lol.
Interesting And long 4
Modern electronic indie. Very much one of those "Two songs everybody knows and then 50 minutes of songs that vaguely sound like inferior versions of those two songs everybody knows" albums, but it ain't bad.
Familiar with some of the songs on the album, good modern indie music, just suffers from being too long an album.
A bunch of this felt very familiar to me and I can't figure out why. It was fine, didn't really wow me and I thought the overall sound was a little monotonous.
A solid indie electronic album. Midnight Coty has to be one of the most Shazam-ed songs ever. It’s been in so many movies and you hear that riff and it resonates. The whole album is definitely above average but it’s not as good as the first few songs let on. 7.0/10
Been there dreamt that
Fine, I guess
It’s always a nice feeling when you hear a song that recognize and have that oh huh it’s that song, from a band you aren’t familiar with from this list. Overall not really my thing but I think the music was decent.
3.5 if I could
Quite a good all-round album. Too long though
Not bad at all but was never really into them
Enjoyed parts of this. However it’s another that falls into a little bit too long for me.
HA du duduudu HA HA du duduudu HA HA du duduudu HA HA du duduudu HA type beat. If i ever make a pretentious but also objectively cool youtube video about something niche and unimportant but want to make it seem like the most important thing ever I know where to go find the soundtrack.
absolutely love M83’s 2003 record, “Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts” - like, to the point that I considered it for my submission on the user list. It was kind of a long-shot candidate, but it was a contender nonetheless. On that record, M83 strike a very interesting balance to me. Their marriage of droning, arpeggiated synths and swirling, distorted guitars might not have been the most world-changing idea, but it hits a unique sweet-spot for me. It’s a bit like if you gave Sonic Youth some synths and sequencers and told them to go to town and record an album. It’s a beautiful, intense and occasionally sinister record and I don’t think very many (if any) other bands have made a record that sounds like it. It’s really such a great record, I love it and highly recommend it. The follow up, “Before the Dawn Heals Us” does expand upon that sound (“Don’t Save Us From the Flames”, “*”, “Teen Angst”, “Car Chase Terror!”), but also introduces a pretty unabashed love for 80’s synth-pop into the M83 fold. While I enjoyed some of that record, I could tell M83 was moving in a direction that wasn’t necessarily for me. It happens. So, I kind of lost track and didn’t really keep up with their releases. I mean, I knew that this record and “Saturdays = Youth” were critical successes and topped a lot of year-end lists, but I never bothered listening, because what I was reading about them kind of reinforced how I felt about the band - that the things I loved about “Dead Cities…” weren’t really integral to their music anymore. So, listening to this record today, I’m having a bit of culture shock, even though I could kind of see it coming. This feels like a completely different band…because it is, but also because it sounds like a band that is chasing something (a more contemporary/pop-oriented sound or more mainstream audience), rather than a band that is creating their own path. There was a song on this record (“New Map”), where I thought to myself, “What is this, a Broken Social Scene record?”…and I love Broken Social Scene, but it feels like a weird fit for what I know M83 to be. So now I feel like I should revisit the records between “Dead Cities…” and this one, to find out how they got here. I’m not saying this is a bad record. Not at all. It does retain the cinematic grandeur that was a part of the reason I loved M83 in the first place. It’s just…I wasn’t expecting this. I know bands change, but in a way, it feels like the band I love is barely present here. I mean, usually bands kind of retain a seed of who they were as they age and maybe the loss of Nicolas Fromageau from the band was much more impactful than I suspected years ago. I don’t know, this record has me thrown for a loop.
Hit and miss. A bit disappointing considering how much I enjoyed pieces of it.
Hey it's that band that wrote that one song also wrote 90 more minutes of music that sounds like that.