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Oct 18, 2011While it may not be quite as striking as Saturdays = Youth, it delivers a welcome mix of classic sounds and promising changes.
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Oct 12, 2011While some consistency may have been sacrificed in favour of a space-filling selection of tracks, this set still represents a heaving, breathing journey through the introspective and the bombastic, the striving and the exhaustive.
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Oct 17, 2011At this point, it's hard to know what to let go and what to hold onto as a listener of M83, but regardless, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming is a pretty fantastic record.
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Jan 3, 2012Gonzalez paints broad strokes on this vast musical landscape, and although a wee long, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming may be his conceptual masterpiece.
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Oct 18, 2011The album is ambitious and brimming with all sorts of stray ideas, but it's also suited to Gonzalez's expansive gifts.
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Oct 27, 2011Though taken individually some tracks may have a strikingly similar feel with a lot of big, synthy crescendos, it's the cohesion of the release that makes it work in the "epic" way that Gonzalez envisioned it.
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Oct 26, 2011The cacophony raised by this album is not so much the kind that unsettles us in important and challenging ways, but is the commercial noise of a spectacle without a center, of emotion so generic we are instantly desensitized to it.
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Oct 14, 2011The end result is an incredibly ambitious and personal effort that shines, sparkles, and thrills.
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Entertainment WeeklyNov 15, 2011Gonzalez wraps both hooks and hallucinations in bubbly melodies only occasionally bogged down by murky sprawl. [28 Oct 2011, p.73]
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Oct 17, 2011Gonzalez has crafted an admirable paean to fuzzy memories, nostalgia, melancholic rumination and pop experimentation, imploring the listener to become the stories and places that populate dreams.
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Oct 13, 2011Hurry Up, We're Dreaming may have its flaws, but minor niggles aside it is a testament to the fine songwriting skill of Gonzalez.
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Oct 17, 2011Hurry Up, We're Dreaming is itself the Little Prince: guileless and dreamy. Quite a bold statement to make, but this is an album of equal valour.
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Oct 11, 2011It's a sweeping, expansive album, that covers a lot of ground and leaves the listener satisfied.
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Nov 3, 2011There is plenty of [crescendos], but Gonzalez also proves adept at pacing, surrounding M83's bigger, more anthemic moments with ambient instrumental interludes and balladic "comedown" tracks.
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Oct 17, 2011With any dreams there are ups and downs, and the same can be said about Hurry Up, We're Dreaming.
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Oct 17, 2011Above all else, it's the best M83 record yet.
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Oct 27, 2011The totality of sound on Hurry Up, We're Dreaming has a way of blinding even the most critical listener to the problems that underline many of the album's lesser songs--weak choruses, unfinished ideas, and a repetition of previously successful formulas.
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Oct 17, 2011With less of the anxiety that marked his earlier albums, that world is a joy to get lost in over and over.
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Q MagazineNov 8, 2011Gonzales works with subsonic electronics, shoegazey ambiance and lush orchestration to create a wildly ambitious, often visionary record. [Nov. 2011, p. 136]
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Oct 28, 2011Gonzalez outdoes himself on Hurry Up, We're Dreaming: a double album in tribute to the hefty documents of pre-digital, pre-iTunes yesteryear.
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Oct 11, 2011Gonzalez sings mostly about memories (occasionally unintelligibly), but refuses to accept that some dramatic gifts don't necessarily have to be exhausting. Still, the album is full of goose-bump moments
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Oct 18, 2011In its execution, the record is near flawless, an essential distillation of the sounds of Gonzalez's youth, nostalgia and melancholy and happiness all mixed up into a sparkling pop stew.
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Oct 18, 2011For an album of such impressive scale and nanoscopic attention to detail, Dreams leaves a surprisingly light impression.
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Oct 12, 2011In the M83 universe, emotion comes before logic, and for all 72 fascinating minutes, Gonzalez has you in the palm of his sweaty hand.
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Oct 17, 2011It sounds like a soundtrack for the end of the world, or the birth of new worlds. Extraordinary.
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Nov 7, 2011The key success of Hurry Up is that his canvas has exponentially increased in size.
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Oct 17, 2011It's surprisingly exhilarating stuff.
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Oct 26, 2011Because of its ambition and grandeur, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming might get criticized for its long runtime, for trying too hard to achieve aesthetic balance and thematic coherency.
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Oct 17, 2011A remarkable accomplishment.
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Oct 13, 2011It's a fantastical story of aliens, spirits, and children told by one breathtakingly gifted artist, and it's utterly remarkable.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 204 out of 223
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Mixed: 9 out of 223
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Negative: 10 out of 223
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