This «Hurry Up, We're Dreaming»With“ Intro ”, a collaboration with Nika Roza - alias Zola jesus - with that surround sound or those choruses from beyond the grave and you already know that this album is a winning horse. He says anthony gonzalez, a 30-year-old Frenchman with five albums already behind him under this stage name, who sought to do “something eclectic, very dynamic, big, epic, but also emotional, nostalgic” and of course he has succeeded. 22 songs - some of them are really interludes - distributed in two albums of eleven pieces that according to their author correspond to the dream of a boy and a girl respectively and the songs of both would be connected.
What is clear is that we are facing his best album although we do not forget that his previous and fantastic album "Saturdays = Youth" I was already pointing out ways. The number of hits in the form of potential singles is huge, there we have the single "Midnight city”(Song of the year for Pitchfork), an indisputable hit with a synthetic XNUMXs aftertaste, as in much of the abum where he continues to address that house brand shoegazing, and in which he shows himself totally without prejudice by incorporating the saxophone in its final stretch. Equally epic are the most successful songs "Reunion", "Claudia Lewis", "New Maps", "OK Pal" or "Steve McQueen".
But without a doubt of all the amalgam of infinite ballads or invigorating themes I would highlight, in addition to the aforementioned single, two themes that escape any adjective, on the one hand it would be “Raconte- Moi Une Histoire”Theme that begins with krautrock dyes and in which a girl begins to tell a story but suddenly everything becomes an epic piece. And there is also the ballad of the year, "Wait"," Send your dreams where no one hides them "says Gonzalez in a song that is gaining in intensity to end between disturbing choirs and orchestrations like the end of the world, brutal.
"Midnight City"