Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
by M83
  • Record Label: Mute
  • Release Date: Oct 18, 2011
User Score
8.7

Universal acclaim- based on 223 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 204 out of 223
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 223
  3. Negative: 10 out of 223
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  1. LetzTalkMoveez
    Nov 21, 2012
    5
    It's an occasionally warm, nostalgic collection of songs. While you're there it's great, but once you start looking forward again you forget all of it, save for a gorgeous opener and closer along with the successful, killer single.
  2. Coolbutlame
    Oct 24, 2011
    6
    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.
  3. cesardios
    Mar 20, 2023
    4
    I actually detest a large chunk of this album but I'm giving it a 4 because it does have some great songs, mainly at the start and end of the album.

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#32 Most Discussed Album of 2011
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#40 Most Shared Album of 2011

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 38 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 38
  3. Negative: 0 out of 38
  1. Blurt Magazine
    Jan 3, 2012
    80
    Gonzalez 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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  2. Mojo
    Dec 22, 2011
    60
    The trade-off for this grandiloquent approach is that some of the songcraft has been swept away in the surge. [Nov 2011, p.93]
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    Nov 15, 2011
    83
    Gonzalez wraps both hooks and hallucinations in bubbly melodies only occasionally bogged down by murky sprawl. [28 Oct 2011, p.73]
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