Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
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| Studio album by M83 | ||||
| Released | 18 October 2011 | |||
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| Length | 73:34 | |||
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| Metacritic | 76/100 |
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| AllMusic |   |
| The A.V. Club | B− |
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| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
| NME | 7/10 |
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| Pitchfork Media | 9.1/10 |
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| Spin | 7/10 |
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (stylized as HurryUp,We'reDreaming.) is the sixth album by French electronic band M83, released on 18 October 2011 by Naïve and Mute. It is M83's last album with keyboardist Morgan Kibby and the band's first full double album.
The album has received generally favorable reviews from critics. It debuted at No. 15 on the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 21,000 copies, becoming M83's highest-charting album to date. It has sold 300,000 copies in the United States as of March 2016.
The album was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the 2013 Grammy Awards and was recognized in The 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far by Pitchfork in August 2014.
Prior to recording Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, Anthony Gonzalez had moved from his native France to Los Angeles. Describing the move in an interview, Gonzalez said: "Having spent 29 years of my life in France, I moved to California a year and a half before the making of this album and I was excited and inspired by so many different things: by the landscape, by the way of life, by live shows, by movies, by the road trips I took alone... I was feeling alive again and this is, I feel, something that you can hear on the album" Gonzalez's tour with The Killers, Depeche Mode and Kings of Leon, in addition to his road trips to Joshua Tree National Park also heavily influenced the album. Gonzalez cited the ambitiousness of albums such as Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness as the reason he made Hurry Up, We're Dreaming a double album. In addition, he described the two discs as brother and sister, with each track having a sibling on the other disc. The album was recorded in Los Angeles at Sunset Studio and The Sound Factory. Because of budget constraints and union issues, the string and brass players who contributed to the album were not paid and were credited with pseudonyms.
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