This is how it happens sometimes. In 2003, M83 (French guys Anthony Gonzales and Nicolas Fromageau) puts out Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, which makes it to the top of my Listen To Alone charts, since its borderline new-agey instrumental dramas don’t seem like anything my friends would like.
In 2005, M83 (now just Gonzales) puts out Before The Dawn Heals Us. I’m excited for the new album, but disappointed by the amount of SINGING on it. I callously file M83 under “Headed In The Wrong Direction” and move on.
Then in 2008, Saturdays=Youth comes out, and I don’t pay much mind. It gets a lot more attention than M83′s previous albums, but not from me. But when everyone’s end-of-the-year lists come out, there it is: Saturdays=Youth, always a contender, 
especially on the lists from artists (where I find the good stuff).
So then I finally decide to investigate, and discover that not only has Anthony Gonzales made a ridiculously fine album with vocals and songs and everything, but he’s confirmed what I’ve been saying all along: the 1980s were the best time to be a teenager, and everyone born after me knows it.
Thanks to him, there’s a new generation of moony-eyed teenagers out there letting this sort of sound wash over their love-addled bodies. Hooray we’re doomed!
M83 – Skin Of The Night from Saturdays=Youth
