New York, NY (Top40 Charts) With another successful North American tour wrapped up over the weekend in support of his latest album Fantasy, today M83, aka Anthony Gonzalez, has made available fan favorite deep-cut "Mirror," from his beloved 2011 album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. Upon the original release of Hurry Up, "
Mirror" was a hidden track found only as a secret download in the packaging of the CD, and later released as a record store day 7".
Fast forward to the current day, and "
Mirror" has proven an exuberant closer to the electric, cathartic live sets on the Fantasy tour throughout the year.
Speaking about the release of the track to Billboard earlier this month, Gonzalez said: "it's a track that never came out digitally and we close our shows with that song. The response of the audience has been great so far, and it's an unknown song that deserves to be properly released in my opinion."
For Gonzalez, Fantasy's direction and aesthetic was immediately clear. "I wanted this record to be very impactful live," he says. "The idea was to come back with something closer to the energy of 'Before The Dawn Heals Us'. The combination of guitars and synths is always in my music, but it's maybe more present on this new record than on the previous ones."
Reserved in nature, Gonzalez also sought to continue a trend that has become more prominent in his recent albums. "I wanted to be more present lyrically and vocally even if that was daunting at first," he states. "I thought if I could achieve that, this album will be more personal than those that came before."
Fantasy, M83's 9th studio album, proves a towering sensory delight and marks his most personal album to date, an alternate world that Gonzalez has created as an escape from the disconnected world we live in today.
Sonically expansive yet tenderly intimate, Gonzalez harnesses a juxtaposition of the unreachable and the omnipresent in a way that leaves the listener feeling unabashedly, heart-blazingly alive.
M83 is the musical vision of French multi-instrumentalist Anthony Gonzalez. Over the span of two decades, he has firmly established himself as an artist whose work transcends mere escapism in favor of full-on worldbuilding. Whether it be via his celebrated studio albums, film soundtracks, or compositions for stage productions, Gonzalez has proven that nothing surpasses his ability to perfectly encapsulate a specific time, emotion, or sense of place.
Initially sparked to inspiration from shoegaze, Gonzalez' body of work spans and blurs multiple genres and realms, from the synth-laden dream-pop found on
Saturdays = Youth to the ambient soundscapes of
Before The Dawn Heals Us. He has seen grandiose global success with the Grammy-nominated, platinum-selling Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, that features explosive hit single "
Midnight City", and has performed sold out tours around the world.
His career has also flourished in the film world, where he has soundtracked the silver screen for films like French director Gilles Marchand's 2011 'Black Heaven', 'Oblivion,' Tom Cruise's sci-fi flick, his brother's films 'Knife & Heart' (starring
Vanessa Paradis **** The Guardian) and 'You And The Night', as well as soundtracking Cirque Du Soleil's VOLTA.
