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The first track Do It, Try It is a grower not a shower. It's an awesome track that seems goofy as fuck at first but it is really catchy and fun in a good way. GO! and Walkway Blues are also very strong and the first three tracks flow very well.

Everything goes to shit at Bibi the dog. Bibi the dog, Moon Crystal, and For the Kids are ear-gratingly awful. It's like terrible elevator music. It's just terrible. There is no M83 album where I have skipped large portions because I've HATED the tracks. The worst M83 tracks before JUNK were mediocre at worst, even the UP! song from Saturdays (which was the only track I didn't like from that album and it was really not too bad.)

We get back on track with Solitude. This is an amazing song and is right up there as a top M83 track. It's beautiful, vast, and just awesome.

The Wizard is fun. It's mixed very well and reminds me of some of the interludes on BTDHU and HUWD. Laser Gun follows and is also really fun and the only track that I like with the new vocalist. She does really well on this track.

That reminds me - why the hell did Morgan Kibby leave/get the boot? She was amazing on Saturdays=Youth and even though that is Anthony's most hated album, it is one of the best things he has ever been a part of. She was more subdued on HUWD but she just fit so much better with M83 than this new vocalist.

Road blaster is mediocre but not horrible. Tension is another amazing interlude type of song, one of the best on the album.

The rest is just mediocre. Atlantique sud is boring, as is Time Wind (Anthony seems to really be phoning it in by this point). Ludivine is too short to be worth anything and the finale Sunday Night 1987 just fizzles out with a hamonica. The ending of M83 albums is usually one of their best features and it just ends with a whimper.

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As I said in the beginning, I really think that Anthony was pissed people kept bitching about a new "REAL" M83 album and this is the result. It's a terrible album, but I don't think it is meant to be an album. It's a group of 15 songs that are meant to be filtered down into 6-8 tracks to make an M83 EP.

My Junk EP:

1. Do It, Try It
2. Go!
3. Walkway Blues
4. Solitude
5. The Wizard
6. Tension
7. Laser Gun

Still too early to pick out my favs, but I think it's a 6/10 after two listens. And I used to consider myself a huge M83 fan. I think Anthony's just very burnt out right now.

I don't mind the style. Some tracks would fit in well on an old skool Jim Henson tv show. Just not many memorable melodies and one too many dull moments/low points on the album.

>>63893268
If I had to score it I'd probably say 5/10 just because it feels like half an album. There is some really good stuff on here but so much awful shit too.

There is only one track I can honesty listen to more than once on this album and it's Solitude. Everything else on it just got mumbled up together and I'm going to find it really hard to go through it all trying to find things to like about it. First track took a while to enjoy but it might take many more times to even try to enjoy the rest of these songs, if they are at all even enjoyable. I feel like I was trolled.

link?

>>63894053
One of these worked on this site - be careful though cause some of the links are bullshit. You should have ABP installed

http://icanleaking.com/indie/m83-junk-2016-2

Also of note - while pitchfork talked about the album today they have yet to review it...

I'm calling a 5.7 for the REAL Pitchfork Score but I'm sure they will give it a 7.0 because they are sucking Anthony's dick.

>>63894053
http://www7.zippyshare.com/v/OlbbUesI/file.html

This album is super mediocre. I can't even say it's laughably bad because (outside of For The Kids) it's mostly just boring. It's like he was so successful at recreating that cheesy 80's sound that the album ended up sounding indistinguishable from mediocre cheesy 80's elevator music

https://soundcloud.com/hell-hound-2/mooncrystaldelightflight-for

I think gonzalez just wanted moon crystal to be vaporwave so i did it for him

I'm halfway through it and loving every song. I'll report back when I finish.

I bet he stopped doing cocaine or something cause these songs are not good

>>63895810
I'm trying really hard not to like this but it's just too awesome.

The awful art and horrendous filler seem like he was more interested in making a statement than a good album. His explanation for the title proves this.

He was probably mad that Midnight City and, to an extent, Outro became massive and nobody card about anything else. After a double album that must suck. And then this comes out and people are saying "the singles are great but everything else is mediocre or bad". Perhaps he will have similar success with minimal effort.

>>63892512
>shit talking up UP!

dropped

But I mean... did someone hold him at gunpoint and tell him to put out an album before April 2016 was finished? Did he have a contract with someone?

>Hollywood raped the Oblivion soundtrack.
How so? That song with Susanne Sundfor was pretty great, especially the instrumental "outro"

>>63892512
>The worst M83 tracks before JUNK were mediocre at worst,
>even the UP! song

nigga what are you doing that's the one of the best songs.