Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

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.

Hey it's that band that wrote that one song also wrote 90 more minutes of music that sounds like that.

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.

Absolutely iconic synthpop album. The whole thing is just such a wholesome, nostalgic vibe.

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

Yeah, right from the "Intro" on the first disk --hiring Zola Jesus's vocal skills to here create an epic and cinematic duet with Anthony Gonzalez (aka M83) -- it's easy to grasp the sheer ambition of this synth pop double-LP. The first disk harbors quite a few electronic rock bangers, with the humongous "Midnight City" being of course the most memorable of them. And I simply love the couple of ambient tracks concluding that first disk ("When Will I Come Home?" "Soon, My Friend"). M83's music might be a touch too naive and airy at times, even kitschy to a degree. But set along the right images or "mind pictures", said music can create the most beautiful soundtracks ever written for an imaginary film. I have to admit I have not listened to the second disk as much as the first one -- to take one example out of it, "OK Pal" is only a lesser rendition of "Midnight City" for me. But revisiting that second half today yielded its own couple of gems -- including "Splendor" and most specifically the "Outro", forever ingrained in my memory as the moving soundtrack for the last couple of minutes of one of the best TV series of all time, *Mr. Robot*. Of course, quite objectively, *Hurry Up, We're Dreaming* is part of that family of overlong projects that would have benefited from self-editing and a shorter runtime. But even with that in mind, it's probably the right album in M83's discography to suggest for this users list. 3.5/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums, rounded up to 4. 8.5/10 for more general purposes (5 + 3.5) ---- Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ---- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 58 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 79 (including this one) Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 143 ---- Emile... Ma propre balise temporelle... Tu trouveras mes trois dernières réponses sous les albums d'Eric B. & Rakim, Shpongle et Ookla The Mok

I enjoyed this, but agree with the other commentators saying it loses steam after the first couple of songs. Again it suffers from being too damn long. Cut this thing in half and you've got yourself a perfect album. My personal rating: 4/5 My rating relative to the list: 4/5 Should this have been included on the original list? Slight no.

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.

I 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.

Not sure why every track seems to have someone trying to do an impression of a duck on it. I think that, like their homophonic mates MBV, their sound becomes overwhelming and numbing, and when the album is 75 minutes long it just becomes kind of boring. I know that's the point, but it lacks the ebb and flow of, say, Pink Floyd. But the songs work well on their own.

Big credit to Anthony Gonzalez' songwriting that I can hear 'Midnight City' for the nth time and not be absolutely sick of it. Even if the ad industry has done their best to ruin that one plus 'Outro' and a few others off this LP, these highlights still shine as some of the best examples of 2010s synth pop. Immaculate production and synth work yields absolutely massive-sounding tracks, galaxy-size anthems that have enough human elements to feel like they fit in the palm of your hands. Not all of the tracks shine like this (my rating reflects how bloated and overstuffed this project is as a standalone album), but even the bloat is beautiful and executed flawlessly. Even without trimming the fat, this LP easily warrants recognition as a decade-defining album and is an amazing (if sometimes scattered) listen. Great add!

The question going in was whether this is just "Midnight City" and filler, or if the whole double album earns its 73-minute runtime. "Midnight City" definitely does heavy lifting, but there are other strong moments. "Reunion" and "Claudia Lewis" both stood out. The 80s influence is all over this (Mr. Mister, Tears for Fears) and I didn't mind that at all. The ambient stretches worked fine too. The problem is double album bloat. Cut this down to 35-40 minutes, lose over half the tracks, and you'd have a genuinely great album. Maybe 4 to 4.5 stars. But as it stands, too much just washes past without sticking. It's pleasant, never annoying, but not concise enough to be essential. The ideas are there. They're just buried under too much runtime. A solid listen that never bugs you but never fully grabs you either

For the submitter: Have you listened to Sweet Trip? I think you’d like them!