On October 18, Mute will release Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, the new double album from electronic haze-pop artist Anthony Gonzalez, known to everyone as M83. Head to this site and enter an email address for the MP3 of "Midnight City", a track from the album. Or click over to Soundcloud to stream it.
Gonzalez has been talking about this album, the follow-up to 2008's Saturdays=Youth for quite a while. Last year, he told Pitchfork, "For now, the direction of the album is very, very, very epic. Very orchestrated. I feel like it's a mix of all my albums, actually." And last month, we learned that the LP would feature contributions from Zola Jesus, Medicine's Brad Laner, Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Beck, Nine Inch Nails), and Saturdays=Youth collaborator Morgan Kibby.

Talking about the album in a press release, Gonzalez cites the Smashing Pumpkins' super-grandiose 1995 double album Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness as a key influence: "I saw when I was a teenager that I could dig into [the album]. It was like a treasure. If I were a teenager nowadays, I would try to find something as creative as this album. They had so much to say in their songs."

Hurry Up, We're Dreaming:

CD1

01 Intro [ft. Zola Jesus]
02 Midnight City
03 Reunion
04 Where the Boats Go
05 Wait
06 Raconte-Moi Histoire
07 Train to Pluton
08 Claudia Lewis
09 This Bright Flash
10 When Will You Come Home?
11 Soon, My Friend

CD2

01 My Tears Are Becoming a Sea
02 New Map
03 OK Pal
04 Another Wave From You
05 Splendor
06 Year One, One UFO
07 Fountains
08 Steve McQueen
09 Echoes of Mine
10 Klaus I Love You
11 Outro

I really like the new track-- listened to it probably 7 or 8 times today. I didn't care for Saturdays despite loving the two albums that came before it, but I'm starting to get kinda psyched for this new one.

i loved the new track

new song is f'n amazing.

yep
double album will make my year

yeah hopefully more like 'couleurs' and less 'graveyard girl'

sax @ 3 minutes = heaven

6 tracks in and it's not bad. wtf is going on in track 6... finger snaps and a kid telling a story about a "special frog"? lol.

I want to listen to that right now.

I'm taking a break before moving on to the 2nd disc, but the frog song is certainly the most memorable thing-- for better or worse-- on disc one.

why cant i find this

why is it not on the demon

Excited for this.

listening

Listened to this last night. It's really good. Second listen tonight.

cute

lets talk about this great album

My Tears Are Becoming a Sea

Raconte-moi Une Histoire is NOT about drugs, i swear.

honestly, this is becoming my fav album of 2011