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Before the Dawn Heals Us

by M83

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of 455,637

3,109
2000's

of 265,899

336
2005

of 37,902

64

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Overall Rating: 3.0963 Before the Dawn Heals Us is ranked overall as 3.0963 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 2.9689 Before the Dawn Heals Us has an avg. critic score of 2.9689 out of 4 stars

Before the Dawn Heals Us Album Reviews

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Entertainment Weekly

[A] sublime soundtrack to dancing in the moonlight

Stylus Magazine

M83âs third album is a high-velocity night time train ride through a miasmic blur of French cities and countryside, pursued by something you can barely see, encased in flames and given to fits of high-drama. ...more

PopMatters

Admittedly, there are some notable missteps, but nothing as to suggest irrevocable damage to the album's sheen. ...more

PopMatters

Simultaneously lauded and criticized for its pragmatic nature, the simplistic dramatics found on M83's second album, Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts , remain a lead staple at the center of their desired sound. ...more

All Music Guide

Before the Dawn Heals Us is ambitious for sure, an emphatic step forward from the linger of Dead Cities. ...more

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Filter

Part romantic, starry-eyed shoegaze pop and part paranoid explosions of...read the complete review at Filter

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Pitchfork

This is a mammoth collusion of synth gasps and distorted swirls, darker and more urban than its meadow-bound predecessor....read the complete review at Pitchfork

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Paste Magazine

A lusher, synthier and all-around grandiose slab of shoegazer emoting and New Age...read the complete review at Paste Magazine

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musicOMH.com

If you've never embarked on a disruptive flight into apocalyptic space, you will have done after you've heard Before The Dawn Heals Us. The third album by M83, aka one-man French multi-instrumentalist Anthony Gonzalez, is so strewn with synaesthetic...read the complete review at musicOMH.com

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