M83

M83M83 is the debut studio album by French electropop band M83, released on 18 April 2001 on Gooom. The album was reissued on 6 September 2005 on Mute Records for its North American release, and is thus sometimes referred to as 0905.

New Jersey’s The Star-Ledger called them “one of the leading lights of the New Jersey pop underground

Ever since their first release in 1992

This is one of those records that all you have to do is drop the needle and you know it's for real

Connan Mockasin proposed that the next of his yearly artist residencies at Mexican Summer’s Marfa Myths festival

It peaked at number 120 on the Billboard 200 chart

Limited edition MAGENTA vinyl housed in a gatefold jacket with vintage artwork

Major Harris

From Afrique's cult classic "House Of The Rising Funk" and its funky wah-wah frenzy to Hadley Caliman's deep jazz flute ode

producer and arranger Ray Phiri

under his stage name Childish Gambino

and Ward's lackadaisical picking sounds just as lazily precise here as it does on future recordings

ensuring the Ophelias had the freedom to experiment in the grey area between pain and rebirth