Even after three years, it’s easy to identify the opening melody of M83’s “Midnight City”—or at least get an “oh, hey, I know this song!” The songs from their earlier discography are a little less known than the ones from Anthony Gonzalez and Nicolas Fromageau’s huge 2011 mainstream breakout Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, but they’re definitely worth a revisit. For those of you that aren’t too familiar with M83’s earlier stuff, the new music video for “Moonchild” (off 2005’s Before the Dawn Heals Us) will serve as a great introduction before diving into the reissues of their first three albums.
Created by Jonathan Hildebrand, the video focuses on the eyes of a group of people watching a triangle of light. A cloaked figure is then revealed, reaching out to it as if controlling its power. The duo’s eerie synths are the perfect soundtrack to the spooky, yet uniting feeling of the video’s event.
Watch for yourself below and then be sure to pick up the reissues of M83’s self-titled debut, Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts, and Before the Dawn Heals Us, available now.
