On a Speedboat with Don Johnson

Generally speaking, I don't like music reviews.  These days they mostly consist of some asshole name-dropping a thousand bands you've never heard of in order to describe an album you probably haven't heard yet.  Most of them are just annoying exercises in musical dick-waving to show just how much shitty music the reviewer listens to, and rarely have anything to do with the music being reviewed.  So I am hesitant to write a music review, as I am probably going to end up doing the exact same things I just complained about.  But I'll give it a shot anyway, if only to stroke my own already fragile ego.


     The new M83 album, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, is good.  Very good, by some people's estimations, and certainly among the artist's best work.  Half of the album is the standard, epic, "Making out with someone while the world collapses around you" M83 sound that has become commonplace throughout his work.  It's done just as well here, starting right off the bat with "Intro", another larger-than-life track that starts out with some breathy chick whispering shit about stars and dreams or something.  I'm pretty sure he has like ten of those songs, but they're all pretty good so we'll let it slide.  Things take a twist with "Midnight City," as we're transported to a dance club in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, snorting coke with movie stars and dancing like idiots.  The song, and most of the album, is a great flashback to the 80's, complete with a badass saxophone solo at the end.  Then "Reunion" starts up, and suddenly we're on a speedboat off the coast of Florida, doing coke with Don Johnson and the guys from Duran Duran.  Basically, the whole album makes you wanna do a shitload of coke with a bunch of different people, and then tell everyone in the world how beautiful they are.  Some people might think that's a bad thing, and I do not count myself among their numbers.  I don't do coke, and I hopefully never will, but if there was ever a convincing argument to give it a shot, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming  is definitely it.  If you need some new music, or just feel like making a lot of new best friends for a night, get the mirrors and razorblades ready, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming is just the fix you need.