Do It, Try It

There are no vocals to locate you, no narrative to follow — only the sensation of acceleration made musical. M83's track from their double album operates as pure cinematic propulsion: synthesizers that enter in overlapping waves, each layer arriving before the previous one has finished establishing itself, drums that build through repetition into something that feels less like a beat and more like forward momentum with a pulse. The arrangement is generous to the point of excess, and the excess is the point — this is music that believes in its own feeling so completely that self-consciousness becomes impossible. Emotionally it occupies a very specific adolescent sublime, the feeling of a moment where possibility seems genuinely infinite, where the future is not yet specific enough to be disappointing. It belongs to the tradition of French electronic music that runs through Daft Punk into M83's own catalog, but pushed further into post-rock territory, the guitars hinting at before being swallowed by the synthesizers. Anthony Gonzalez captured something about the late 2000s/early 2010s yearning for cinematic scale in ordinary life. This is music for running — not for exercise but for the feeling of running, the physical proof that you can move faster than your current self. Press play at the moment a door opens or a decision is made. It will confirm that the decision was correct.