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(Mute/Virgin)
It has been a while since an album has sent me ducking for cover in hope that I would never have to hear it again. ‘Before the Dawn Heals Us’ is the third album from M83, this time with only remaining french band member Anthony Gonzalez, and it is one interesting listen, (I speak of the same kind of interesting that is used to describe a kidney and pig trotter pizza).
From the opening track ‘Moonchild’ you know that this is not an album aimed at the well adjusted. This is where teenage angst and geek rock meet head on and cause some seriously grievous bodily harm.
Nothing short of hysterical, ‘Before the Dawn Heals Us’ is an unrelenting mass of ferociously out of tune guitars and incessant beating of drums interspersed with a paranoid pretentiousness that comes in the form of wailing organs, cheap droning synths and washed out lyrics that are impossible to understand.
Perhaps there is something I just don’t get about this album, but it found me sitting somewhere between Eurovision wannabes, geeky goth rockers and phantom of the opera ghouls; a place, whilst comforting for some, just isn’t right for me.
