This album completely blew me away, every song is beautifully crafted, and it's 2 CD's! This will always be in my car's glove compartment. Fantastic!

Hurry Up, We're Dreaming is stellar and spectacular. M83 succeeds at reaching for the stars, using evocative imagery and bright synthetic colors to create immense sounds at every turn. Each track finds itself exploring different dynamics and different expressive qualities. The sum of the two CDs feels more vast than its 74-minute run time would initially suggest. All in all, this album must be heard by everyone to be believed.… Expand

I was blown away to the lush Midnight City and I'm let down by the rest of the double album. There's a heavy tongue-in-cheek element to the 80s this-could-be-a-John-Hughes-movie schtick, but quite a few of these tracks are ho-hum.. All the same, a point for every track I really dig.…

One of my favorite double albums of all time, and one of the best albums of the year. The critic score is far too low, and I'm very surprised. M83 is becoming the band I've always wanted them to be.

Ahh yes, the everlasting rock n' roll romance of the double album. Most bloated, few worthwhile, all ambitious. When I think back to high school, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, the 1995 double album by The Smashing Pumpkins, comes to mind. When I think of college, it's Godspeed You Black Emperor's Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! and my late finding of Wilco's Being There. And then there's Ryan Adams' sprawling breakup record, Cold Roses, and what are easily three of my all-time favorite records - The Beatles' White Album, The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St. and The Clash's London Calling. Now those seven double records, all of 'em, deserved their format. Most other double albums through time (not counting, you know, **** Brew, Bob Dylan, The Who and stuff like that)? Not the case. Nearly all of them, I'd argue, could be whittled down to a single album or even an EP. So when M83 main man Anthony Gonzalez announced last year that he was working on an "epic double album," I started to worry. I'd only just become a big fan with the release of the last M83 album, 2008's great Saturdays = Youth, and now the guy was going to chase me off? Ugh. Regardless, I skipped happily to the record store on release day, excited at the possibility of hearing a new classic for the first time. Anything to keep my going, and Gonzalez is, no doubt, an artist who seems capable of making the mod con classics. About halfway through the record's first proper song (and current single), "Midnight City," I nearly wet my cargo shorts. What a huge, epic, inventive and addictive track! And, gulp, sexy! What is that hook? An animal? Animals? A final plea? Didn't matter, I was suddenly filled with the kind of excitement that's hard to find once you turn 30 - I thought for sure that I was in the middle of a new memory. One to keep forever and hold onto when the world is ugly, like the first time I heard White Blood Cells or OK Computer. Gonzalez had quickly made one thing clear: he had a whole lot of weird, ambitious ideas. Then the record, titled Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, played on. Clearly, I realized, Gonzalez is still deeply obsessed with the sound of 80s pop music. That, and youth - the two themes prevalent throughout Saturdays. Luckily, he approaches neither from the slant of an ironic nostalgic, but, rather, as a cinematic nostalgic attempting to soundtrack both the daydreams of hip adults and the nighttime adventures of those still young enough to regularly indulge in such things. And he does so with lush, expansive arrangements, each of which holds tight to the record's cohesive sound while still managing to offer new ideas left and right. No doubt, Gonzalez took the Double Album Challenge because he knew he was at the peak of his powers. We hear that peak, absolutely, on tracks like "Wait," "Midnight City" and "The Bright Flash" - and that's just the first disc! Big, fancy, extensively ornamented songs whose appeal just grows and grows with the familiarity of the listener. And while this 80s space rock journey through dreams and childhood is most definitely a hell of an impressive piece of work, I'm not sure that the kind of music M83 make is conducive to the the double album format. I mean, yeah, Soft Machine made Third and Miles Davis made **** Brew and others have made double albums that aren't full of pop songs all through the history of recorded music. But, if I'm being completely honest, I do kinda/sorta feel like Hurry Up, We're Dreaming may have been better off as a single album. Rather than two 11-song discs that are just stuffed full of big ideas, how about the best 14 songs on one disc, followed by a really great seven-song EP? It'd be a classic, right? All the songs here are worth releasing, and I guess that's the point. When you're in the kind of zone Gonzalez is in, you kind of just want to brag about it and document it. You want to step up, and step past, the others. I get it - the drive of the human. On record. Next topic: greatest triple albums of all time. Have One On Me, Sandinista and 69 Love Songs all come to mind. Hopefully Gonzalez doesn't take the challenge; in fact, despite the impressive accomplishment that is Hurry Up, he'd most definitely be better releasing single albums from here forward. Read more of my music- and film-related writing at ZeCatalist.com.… Expand

Amazing to see what M83 has grown into. A strong double album sounding like this I don't think could have been predicted when Dead Cities came out... There's some really great stuff here & will likely make lots of year end best lists as well as expand his fanbase. The "melancolia" does kinda drag things a bit but good no less.

This is the first album I bought completely since probably the 90s. I usually nitpick an album based on 15 second previews... this one, I just bought it all. Some songs I didn't care for, but after listening again and again, they became my favorites. Great album, probably one of the best albums I've heard in years.

What M83 have created here is, literally, from another planet. In 22 songs, Gonzalez manages to create the perfect balance between consistency and variety, between melancholia and sudden interstellar bursts of energy.

Album number 6 is Anthony Gonzalez's masterpiece. Arguably one of the greatest electronic shoegaze acts, M83's Hurry Up. We're Dreaming is suberb from start to finish. Fans of the band will love the direction the album heads in...Gonzalez clearly wants to take us to Messier 83. Electronic spacey sounds and saxaphones give this album a distinct sound and 80s undertones provide the new spinoff. Hurry Up. We're dreaming could be right at home in 1986 alongside Visage, it sits fondly as one of the greats of the 21st century.… Expand

While songs like Midnight City and Year One, One UFO are instant grabbers, the rest of the album doesn't have much going on that Anthony Gonzalez hasn't already done. It's still a good album, but some of the tracks have too much shoegazing and not enough of the angsty-ness that made the last two albums classics.

This is, by far, the best and most accessible album by M83 yet. I have listened to this album nonstop since it has been released. It is beautiful, catchy, and memorable. I highly recommend it!

Thanks god there are two Cd's, you will never be depressed ending the first! This Album is an extraordinary craft that made me believe again in electronic indie-pop abilities to excite. Every time when you feel like getting closer to the "being bored spot" you get a new track, a music bomb, exploding into your ears.

This is M83’s sixth album release and it is by far their most incredible and profound piece of art. Whatever Anthony Gonzalez strove for in this double album is not only obviously present but also permeates skillfully throughout this entire album, which is based on vague interpretations of dreams. Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming is meant to be a trippy journey through the dreams of different age groups: children, teenagers and adults. The songs within this interconnected album are heavy with slow synth that masterfully build up into nostalgia for 80’s style music that are catchy, yet remain surprisingly complex, with a sick drumbeat, hints of saxophone, ethereal vocals and very epic violins. Think of The Killers (with an echoing voice) travelling through space and back in time. Yet, what is also truly remarkable is how the two albums are meant to mirror each other, each song having its own sister song in the other album. “Introâ€� begins this journey with a glorious, synth-laced melody that builds up into an epic 80’s vocal beat. “Midnight Cityâ€� and “Reunionâ€� are both very upbeat songs ala Lionel Richie really rocking out. “Raconte-moi une historieâ€� is an adorable, yet beautiful, story about a “magical frogâ€� that alters one’s state of being; but what makes this song perfect is the slow build up of synthesized melodies that never fails to make you smile. “Soon, My Friendâ€� is an incredibly orchestrated piece that seems to be a combination of lo-fi 70’s music intertwined with a slow Sufjan Stevens song. “New Mapâ€� is very upbeat and a bit more modern, reminding its listener of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart with its use of electric guitar. “OK Palâ€� then reverts itself back to its 80’s theme, with a groovy beat that you can’t help rocking out to. Lastly, “Outroâ€� sends its listeners back to another reality, out from the majestic dream world through a final BANG through light-speed that sums up the intricacies and beauty behind the entire album.… Expand

See, there is the number of time you will play a song. And, only for a few albums per decade can you manage to get those kind of heavy stats THAT fast. On an entire album. Hooked, like never before by this "band" that hooked me up so good already. The only drug I'll allow is also the most gentle & epic one. Merci les mecs.