Pitchfork Interviews M83

[DudeAsInCool]

Aside from being an outright falsehood, the designation of music as the "universal language" is a cliche so obnoxious and overused as to have been rendered all but meaningless. The suggestion that music could, perhaps, bridge the barrier between two European languages in a global cultural economy, seems a bit more reasonable. When French duo Anthony Gonzalez and Nicolas Fromageau released their epic second record as M83, Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts on French electronic label Gooom last year, the album spread across the internet long before the CD was even remotely available outside of France, winning over fans of electronic and rock music alike. During a brief stateside press stint in May, I spoke to M83's Gonzalez via telephone. This week, the band launches their first-ever U.S. tour.

Pitchfork: The music that you make seems more rooted in guitar music than in electronic music.

Anthony: Well, I first played in a rock band-- in a rock-y, noisy band. The first instrument I learned was the guitar. With Nicolas, we played in a noisy rock band, we played music like Sonic Youth. We stopped that because we were trapped in a style of music, and we wanted to add more sounds, to open doors, and to open ourselves to other music. So we first bought synthesizers, keyboards, samplers, and then I started to make electronic music in my home, to create my home studio. When you said that it sounds more like a rock band-- what I wanted to create with Nicolas for the album is to make rock music with keyboards. And there is a little bit of guitar, but there is a lot of keyboards.

Pitchfork: This gets said a lot, but it reminds me a lot of My Bloody Valentine, not only because of the textures, but because so much ofLoveless was recorded with a drum machine.

Anthony: What I listen to the most is rock music. When I listen to electronic music, I listen to electronic music, I listen to ambient music-- German music, Ash Ra Tempel, Tangerine Dream, bands like that. I live to listen to Brian Eno, too. I don't listen to electronica, you know? I prefer listening to older bands or Neil Young or something like that.

Read the full interview here:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/interviews/m/m83-04/

[jipper]

m83 sucks wang and pitchforkmedia sucks wang.

that m83 is a gay soundscapy guitar album that builds up to a homosexual cum blurt.

i dont like them.

[DudeAsInCool]

i dont like them.

Apparently u think gaystuff is 43 percent less funniter, too

[jipper]

funniter?

anything that is spawned from that pitchfork site is bollocks..even if it agrees with my opinion, it will do so by utter fluke.

[DudeAsInCool]

funnier?

yes, funnier

[jipper]

i dont like them.

Apparently u think gaystuff is 43 percent less funniter, too

indeed.

buit what does funiter mean?

[DudeAsInCool]

It's an Americanized redneck version of 'funnier' with a small t