Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
2003 studio album by M83
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Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts (stylised without spaces) is the second studio album by the French electronic group M83. The album was first released in Europe on 14 April 2003, then in North America on 27 July 2004. The cover art is the photograph Snow Angels by Justine Kurland. This album was founding member Nicolas Fromageau's last album with the band.
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| Released | 14 April 2003 | |||
| Recorded | 2002 | |||
| Studio | M83 Studio | |||
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| Length | 56:51 | |||
| Label | Gooom | |||
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The North American pressing of the album comes with a bonus disc, containing five additional tracks, including the title track of the album and a live version of "Gone", as well as the enhanced videos of the singles "Run into Flowers" and "America".
Reception
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 86/100[3] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [4] |
| The Austin Chronicle | [5] |
| Drowned in Sound | 9/10[6] |
| Pitchfork | 9.2/10[7] |
| Playlouder |  [8] |
| PopMatters | 8/10[9] |
| Stylus Magazine | A[10] |
| Uncut | [11] |
| Under the Radar | 8/10[12] |
| URB | [13] |
Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts has received widespread critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 86, based on 15 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".[3]
In August 2009, Pitchfork placed Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts at number 188 on their list of the "Top 200 Albums of the 2000s,"[14] and, in October 2016, at number 22 on their list of "The 50 Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time."[15] As of 2005 close to 25,000 copies of Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts had been sold in the United States.[16]
Track listing
Standard track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Birds" |
| 0:53 |
| 2. | "Unrecorded" |
| 4:11 |
| 3. | "Run into Flowers" |
| 4:09 |
| 4. | "In Church" |
| 3:58 |
| 5. | "America" |
| 3:06 |
| 6. | "On a White Lake, Near a Green Mountain" |
| 4:43 |
| 7. | "Noise" |
| 3:54 |
| 8. | "Be Wild" | Gonzalez | 3:19 |
| 9. | "Cyborg" |
| 3:48 |
| 10. | "0078h" |
| 4:01 |
| 11. | "Gone" |
| 6:07 |
| 12. | "Beauties Can Die" (ends at 9:17; contains a hidden track at 11:17, after a period of silence) | Gonzalez | 14:38 |
| Total length: | 56:45 | ||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Tsubasa" |
| 4:09 |
| 2. | "God of Thunder" |
| 5:55 |
| 3. | "In Church" (Cyann & Ben version) |
| 7:05 |
| 4. | "Gone" (live) |
| 5:50 |
| 5. | "Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts" |
| 17:42 |
| 6. | "Run into Flowers" (enhanced video) | 4:08 | |
| 7. | "America" (enhanced video) | 3:06 | |
| Total length: | 97:26 | ||
Notes
- The sampled dialogue in "America" comes from the film Don't Look Now.
Vinyl track listing
Vinyl issues of this album came with an extra track, a nearly 18-minute long piece named "Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts".[17]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Birds" |
| 0:53 |
| 2. | "Unrecorded" |
| 4:11 |
| 3. | "Run into Flowers" |
| 4:09 |
| 4. | "In Church" |
| 3:58 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5. | "Be Wild" | Gonzalez | 3:19 |
| 6. | "America" |
| 3:06 |
| 7. | "On a White Lake, Near a Green Mountain" |
| 4:43 |
| 8. | "Noise" |
| 3:54 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9. | "Cyborg" |
| 3:48 |
| 10. | "0078h" |
| 4:01 |
| 11. | "Gone" |
| 6:07 |
| 12. | "Beauties Can Die" | Gonzalez | 9:20 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13. | "Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts" |
| 17:40 |
| Total length: | 1:09:09 | ||