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For his first two albums, from 2001’s _(album-title)At The Party_ to _(album-title)Before The Dawn Heals Us_, _(artist-name)M83_’s Anthony Gonzalez piled up Tangerine Dream-y synths, shoegazing walls of guitars, and ample helpings of reverb to create an updated soundtrack to teen angst as previously soundtracked by bands like _(artist-name)The Cure_. Beneath the washes of sound, it seemed, lurked memories of a youth spent on the dark side of the moon. Later, he released something close to a party record with _(album-title)Saturdays = Youth_, for “Saturday is definitely the coolest day of the week for a teenager and that’s the reason Saturday is in the title”. Apparently Gonzalez really liked being a teenager, discovering parties, drugs and music. From there on, his ambitions got even wider in scope. Relocating to Los Angeles, he teamed up with frequent _(artist-name)Beck_ and _(artist-name)NIN_ collaborator Justin Meldal-Johnsen for the grandiosely baroque _(album-title)Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming_, and it seems that he has left behind any restraints, allowing himself to fulfil all the ambitious futurism he could muster.

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