Anyone who calls an album Junk makes it very easy for critics. Certainly if you also quite rigorously break with the past - in the case of M83, consisting of six CDs full of tasteful electronic music of generally high quality. However, for the seventh, Junk, band leader Anthony Gonzalez was inspired by television shows from the 70s and 80s, such as Punky Brewster and Who's The Boss? A cheesy
… instrumental like Moon Crystal could just have been the starting tune. Gonzalez already sniffed at the eighties in 2008, but the result remained a somewhat sterile exercise. With Junk, the Frenchman is now going all the way: Whitney Houston ballads full of wrong keyboards, saxophones, a crack guitar in Go! from guitar god and even a vocal contribution from the Freggle-esque puppets that adorn the case. No, Gonzalez spared no effort to make his point - this is rubbish. But why, why do I still think this is the best M83 album since from 2003? (RME)more
