M83 Announces New Album 'Junk', Out April 8
M83, aka Anthony Gonzalez, announces the highly anticipated details of his forthcoming full-length album, JUNK, out April 8 on Naïve. Following Grammy nominated album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming featuring platinum single, “Midnight City,” and two triumphant years of world touring, Gonzalez - who serves as M83’s musical architect, songwriter, front man and primary vocalist - returns with an artistic evolution, explaining, “I want to show different sides of me on this album. I want to come back with something more intimate, yet somehow with...less me!”
Feeling a renewed kinship with Gonzalez’s early musical inspirations like Tangerine Dream, Aphex Twin, and genre-expanding visionaries like Brian Wilson and Kevin Shields, Gonzalez both returns to his roots with this album, yet makes a logical leap forward. And while M83 albums has always combined genres in a nostalgic and provocative way – from shoegaze and ambient to synth-pop and ’90s alt-rock – for JUNK, Gonzalez experiments adventurously with sounds and styles he’s never previously attempted in his music. “All my albums have layers of eclecticism to them, but with this album I wanted to take that even further,” he says.
Listen to album opener, “Do It, Try It,” which features a fractured yet catchy mélange of old school house music, pianos, synthesized vocals, prog excess and pop art bubblegum hooks HERE.
On the album title “JUNK,” Gonzalez divulges, "Anything we create today is going to end up being space junk at one point anyway, and I find it really fascinating and scary at the same time - beautiful too in a way. I have this image of pieces of humanity floating in space, lost forever. It also means that nowadays everything goes so fast and everybody is kind of throwing away art in a certain manner. People will listen to an album for instance and just pick a track they like to put on a playlist. They're not going to take the time to listen to an album anymore because they have to jump on the next thing.”
M83 has also announced an initial series of tour dates including special performances at the renowned Coachella festival in Indio, CA and The Governor’s Ball in NYC. This summer will see further festival performances across the globe, including stops in Spain, France, Germany, Sweden and more. Tickets are available now via ilovem83.com. Full tour dates below with more to be announced.
JUNK Tracklisting
- Do It, Try It
- Go!
- Walkway Blues
- Bibi The Dog
- Moon Crystal
- For The Kids
- Solitude
- The Wizard
- Laser Gun
- Road Blaster
- Tension
- Atlantique Sud
- Time Wind
- Ludivine
- Sunday Night 1987
M83 2016 TOUR DATES
- April 6 - New Orleans, LA - The Civic Theatre
- April 8 - Dallas, TX - Bomb Factory
- April 9 - Houston, TX - TBD
- April 10 - Austin, TX - Stubbs Waller Creek Amphitheater
- April 12 - Tucson, AZ - Rialto Theatre
- April 13 - Phoenix, AZ - Comerica Theatre
- April 15 - Indio, CA - Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
- April 16 - Las Vegas, NV - Brooklyn Bowl
- April 17 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theater
- April 19 - Pomona, CA - Fox Theater
- April 22 - Indio, CA - Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
- April 23 - Santa Cruz, CA - The Catalyst Club
- April 25 - Portland, OR - Roseland Theater
- April 26 - Portland, OR - Roseland Theater
- April 27 - Missoula, MT - The Wilma
- April 29 - Edmonton, AB - Winspear Centre
- April 30 - Calgary, AB - Grey Eagle Event Centre
- May 4 – Hong Kong, China – Kitec Star Hall
- May 7 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – KL Live
- May 19 – Sentosa, Singapore – Hard Rock Coloseum
- May 21 – Jakarta - Lapangan D Senayan
- May 24 – Seoul - AX
- May 26 – Tokyo - Studio Coast
- May 28 - The Gorge, WA - Sasquatch Music Festival
- May 30 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Great Saltair
- May 31 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre
- June 1 - Kansas City, MO – Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland
- June 3 – Columbus, OH – Express Live
- June 4 - New York, NY - The Governors Ball Music Festival
- June 6 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE
- June 7 – Cincinnati, OH - Bogarts
- June 8 – Cleveland, OH – House of Blues
- June 10 - Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo
- June 11 – Raleigh, NC – Red Hat Amphitheater
- June 12 – Richmond, VA – The National
- June 14 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore
- June 15 – Norfolk, VA – The Norva
- June 16 - Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion (with Tame Impala)
- June 18 - Dover, DE – Firefly Festival
- June 24 26 – Paris – Solidays Festival
- June 28 – Istanbul – Zorlu Center for the Performing
- June 30 – Gdynia, Poland – Open’er Festival
- July 1-3 – Marmande, France - Garorock
- July 3 – Belfort, France - Eurockéennes
- July 7 - Bilbao, Spain - BBK Live Festival
- July 9 - Lisbon, Portugal - NOS Festival
- July 15 - Gräfenhainchen, Germany - Melt Festival
- July 17 – Ostrava, Czech Republic – Colours of Ostrava Festival
- July 22-24 – Oro Medonte, Canada – Wayhome Music and Arts
- July 23-24 – Sterling Heights, MI – Mo Pop Festival
- Aug 10 - Oslo, Norway - Øya Festival
- Aug 11 - Gothenberg, Sweden - Way Out West Festival
- Aug 13 - Helsinki, Finland - Flow Festival
- Aug 15 - Budapest, Hungary - Sziget Festival
- Aug 19-21 - Biddinghuizen, Netherlands – Lowlands Festival
- Aug 25-28 – Charleville Mézières – Cabaret Vert Festival
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