This week's new tracks

M83OK Pal (Mute/Naïve) No one has come close to, or actually tried, articulating the rich emotional life of a Blackpool slot machine like M83 has. It's a push-me-pull-you affair of bright lights and longing, Casio glissando and majestic regret, propelled by a jibber-jabber vocal refrain that somehow captures both. The words "M83 OK Pal" look about as inviting as the back of a VCR player, but there's a richness of texture, ambition and electronic dreaming here, enough to make a pinball table wag...

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