M83 – “Unrecorded”

M83's upcoming album is getting a lot of hype in the indieverse so they definitely deserved a listen. I didn't really know what sort of music I was expecting but it turns out they're an ambient electro-dream pop band. They kinda remind me of post-rock acts in a way but they have shoegaze aesthetics. Anyway, I picked their second album Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, which was released to widespread acclaim in spring 2003 and I absolutely adored it. The soundscapes they produce are very satisfying. This record is an aural treat and it really made my day. Just listening to it, everything felt a bit more beautiful in the world.

Can't wait for their next album.

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M83 – “I Guess I’m Floating”

I'm actually listening to Vampire Weekend's “Oxford Comma” right now but I wanted to talk about M83 more. I listened to their third album and it wasn't nearly as satisfying as Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts but it was still incredibly delicious. M83's music is pretty much what happens if you mix Sigur Rós and Godspeed You! Black Emperor and maybe Explosions in the Sky and load it up with a shitload of emotion and electronic sound layers. I happen to love all of those bands so that means M83 is awesome.

Great stuff that's quickly becoming a Certified Sofi Favorite®. Looking forward to their new album even more now.

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M83 – “Lower Your Eyelids to Die with the Sun”

I'm still savoring Before the Dawn Heals. It's so delicious-tchi.

Sigh, if I had to pick music for my death scene in a movie, I'd have it set to this beautiful, beautiful song. Eat your heart out, Sigur Rós. You won't be tugging my heartstrings like you did in Vanilla Sky, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou or 127 Hours like M83 ever will.



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Rin Oikawa – “She Said”

I had a really nice long post explaining what this song meant to me written up but then my browser crashed and I don't feel like writing it up again. It just means a whole lot to me, like the song is describing me, and it's from a movie I otherwise didn't really like from a kinda kitschy Japanese film director.

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Modest Mouse – “3rd Planet”

I've listened to a shitload of new music this year so far and out of everything this still remains a magnificently standout song to me, not just in the Modest Mouse discography, as wonderful as it is already, but in what I've been listening to in general. I've experienced plenty of good music but "3rd Planet" inspires me to revisit it again and again above all. Music to the music to my ears.

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The Velvet Underground – “Who Loves the Sun”

I finally got around to getting my hands on some The Velvet Underground! I'm starting with the album Loaded. It's pretty sweet stuff.

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The Velvet Underground – “Heroin”

I got more of their discography and I'm seriously digging them. This is from their quasi-epοnymous début album The Velvet Underground & Nico which has this delightfully peel-able pop art banana album art by none other than Andy motherfucking Warhol.

Delicious stuff. And Lou Reed is delicious as always, of course.

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Daft Punk – “Digital Love”

Yesterday I was at the shoe store purchasing a wonderful pair of totally retro sneakers and all of a sudden this song started playing on the speakers. So I said to the store associate helping me, "I love this song." And he told me it was a great song from a great album and then told me about the Daft Punk movie, the animé one which I have of course seen.

So we talked about that and I told him about how the movie was actually planned out as they were writing the album and that the movie wasn't actually fitted into the album as he previously thought.

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