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Anthony Gonzalez spent M83’s first decade trying to see the movies of his dreams and then saw them everywhere—2011's Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming spawned one of the era’s most influential indie rock hits, countless sync licenses, and even an actual Hollywood blockbuster soundtrack. By 2016, he just wanted an escape and called his shot with Junk, a seriously silly album where Hurry Up was deliriously serious, trading Zola Jesus and the Smashing Pumpkins with Steve Vai and the Punky Brewster theme. Now, so much of pop culture is formed in M83’s image—the Ghostbusters reboot, “Blinding Lights,” the entire Stranger Things franchise—codifying Gonzalez’s universe of pastels and neons, ’80s pop boosterism animated by the irrepressible pluck of outcast youth. Does the past of least resistance lead Gonzalez back to “Midnight City”? Or it is duty to prove that M83 can do M83 better than its legions of copycats?
“Oceans Niagara”—the lead single of M83’s upcoming ninth album, Fantasy—reunites Gonzalez with longtime collaborator Justin Meldal-Johnsen and gets back in the business of rocket launches. The song is aerodynamic yet explosive when it needs to be; like NASA, Gonzalez never wants you to lose sight of how he brought the impossible within reach. When he belts out “beyond adventure!”—soaring with every overdubbed guitar harmony and drum fill—there’s a sincerity that cannot be manufactured. No one could blame Gonzalez for trying to distance himself from the cottage industry he unwittingly created; the return to form on “Oceans Niagara” is his way of reaching outer space and inner peace.
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