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Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Electronic · 2003 · 12 tracks

Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts

M83

A monolithic fusion of digital distortion and shoegaze melody. Shimmering synth walls and processed vocals create a vast, neon-lit landscape of urban yearning.

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It's like My Bloody Valentine traded their guitars for a room full of glowing synthesizers.

A soaring, cinematic sense of longing that feels both technologically cold and humanly warm.

Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts · vs · M83
Euphoric+1.2σ

Euphoric saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks
01
Birds
0:54
02
Unrecorded
4:12
03
Run Into Flowers
4:09
04
In Church
3:58
05
America
3:06
06
On a White Lake, Near a Green Mountain
4:44
07
Noise
3:54
08
Be Wild
3:19
09
Cyborg
3:48
10
0078h
4:01
11
Gone
6:07
12
Beauties Can Die
14:37
Moments Worth Waiting For
The massive, distorted synth swell that swallows the mix halfway through Unrecorded.
The transition from the delicate, child-like vocal loop in Birds to the crushing wall of sound in the following tracks.
The haunting, liturgical organ drone of In Church that feels both ancient and futuristic.
The ten-minute ambient drift that concludes Beauties Can Die, slowly dissolving into silence.
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