Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts

by M83

Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 15 April 2003
  • Label: Gooom, Labels
  • Country: France
  • Length: 56:45
  • Community rating: 3.76/5 from 11 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Fusing shoegaze textures with electronic production, 'Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts' utilizes walls of distorted synthesizers and soaring instrumental melodies to construct a melancholic and highly atmospheric soundscape. The release is recognized in indietronica for adapting the aesthetics of dream-pop into an expansive, digital format.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, effects-laden, sweeping, dystopian, maximalist

Tracklist

  1. Birds (00:53)
  2. Unrecorded (04:11)
  3. Run Into Flowers (04:09)
  4. In Church (03:58)
  5. Be wild (03:19)
  6. America (03:06)
  7. On a White Lake, Near a Green Mountain (04:43)
  8. Noise (03:54)
  9. Cyborg (03:48)
  10. 0078H (04:01)
  11. Gone (06:07)
  12. Beauties Can Die (14:36)

Credits

  • Stylophone - art direction, design
  • Jean-Pierre Chalbos - mastered by
  • Justine Kurland - photography by [cover picture]
  • Morgan Daguenet - recorded by, mixed by, written-by, performer, producer
  • Nicolas Barlet - recorded by, mixed by
  • Anthony Gonzalez - written-by, performer, producer
  • Nicolas Fromageau - written-by, performer, producer
  • Villeneuve - written-by, performer, producer

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