In January and February 2009, M83 supported The Killers across USA tour dates and toured with Depeche Mode on its Tour of the Universe in Italy, Germany, and France. In December 2008, M83 supported Kings of Leon on its UK tour. Four singles were released from the album: “Couleurs” in February 2008, “Graveyard Girl” in April, “Kim & Jessie” in July, and “We Own the Sky” in December. M83’s 2008 album Saturdays = Youth, released on Mute, was recorded with the help of Ken Thomas and Ewan Pearson. 1, and to make the album part of an ongoing series. The relevance of digital music (from creation to sharing), gave him the idea to call the project Digital Shades Vol. Just after the Before the Dawn Heals Us US tour, Anthony Gonzalez decided to take M83 in a more ambient direction (as heard on some earlier M83 tracks) and started to write and record a collection of ambient works. M83 also collaborated with other Gooom Disques artists in a collaborative LP, under the name Purple Confusion. M83 produced the remix of the track “Pioneers” on the British rock group Bloc Party’s 2005 album Silent Alarm Remixed. Currently Anthony Gonzalez records mainly on his own (Nicolas Fromageau started Team Ghost in 2009), often with the help of his brother Yann Gonzalez, vocalist/keyboardist Morgan Kibby, guitarist/bassist Pierre-Marie Maulini, and drummer Loïc Maurin. 1 in 2007, Saturdays = Youth in 2008, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming in 2011, Oblivion, You and the Night in 2013 and Junk in 2016.įor the third album released by M83, Before the Dawn Heals Us, Gonzalez decided to part from Fromageau (after an emotionally distressing tour for Dead Cities). M83 has released the following albums: M83 in 2001, Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts in 2003, Before the Dawn Heals Us in 2005, Digital Shades Vol. M83 was named after the spiral galaxy “Messier 83”. M83’s style owes a lot to the shoegaze genre, in that there is much emphasis on tonality, extensive use of reverb effects and often softly-spoken lyrics at times submerged in instrumentation. He and former member Nicolas Fromageau founded the group in 2001 in Antibes, France.
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M83 is the rock and electronic music project of the French artist Anthony Gonzalez.