{"id":22151,"date":"2012-05-31T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christandpopculture.com\/?p=22151"},"modified":"2012-05-31T09:00:43","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T14:00:43","slug":"grace-notes-m83-infinity-shred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/2012\/05\/grace-notes-m83-infinity-shred\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Notes: M83, Infinity Shred"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><em><strong>Grace Notes<\/strong>\u00a0is a weekly exploration by Jason Morehead of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christandpopculture.com\/featured\/christian-appreciation-of-secular-music\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">signs of common grace in the music world<\/a>. We hope to alert you to wonderful music, some of which will be spiritual in nature but all of which will be unique and worthy of your attention. Each week we will share brief reviews of albums worthy of your attention and maybe a video or two.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>M83<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>M83\u2019s\u00a0<em>Hurry Up, We\u2019re Dreaming<\/em>\u00a0was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christandpopculture.com\/featured\/our-favorite-albums-of-2011\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">our favorite album of 2011<\/a>, with its epic shoegazer\/electronic anthems and wide-eyed sense of wonder. Or, in the case of the album\u2019s related music videos, glowing eyes. A video for \u201cReunion\u201d has just surfaced, and it continues the storyline of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dX3k_QDnzHE\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cMidnight City\u201d\u2018s video<\/a>, in which a group of super-powered kids try to avoid capture by some shadowy figures bent on experimenting on them. As befitting the song, the video is appropriately cinematic, and even strangely touching in its execution.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"M83 'Reunion' Official video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DJQQrjVmQG0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Infinity Shred<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re reading this article, then you probably dig M83, and if you dig M83, then I think you\u2019ll probably dig the New York trio\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/infinityshred.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Infinity Shred<\/a> (formerly known as\u00a0Starscream). Like M83, Infinity Shred traffics in a nostalgia-laced blend of electronica and shoegazer rock, and as their name suggests, they can get fairly celestially minded. Their latest release,\u00a0<em>EP 001 (Gnar Dream)<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/infinityshred.bandcamp.com\/album\/ep-001-gnar-dream\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">was released earlier this month<\/a>, and is full of electro-gaze that can be as kitschy as it is transcendent. \u201cWayfinder\u201d is especially glorious, as the band\u2019s analog synths merge with searing guitar riffs like some giant spaceship bound for the Large Magellanic Cloud. However, the EP is also full of quieter moments, such as \u201cUntitled 001\u201d, which sounds like Sigur R\u00f3s if J\u00f3nsi\u00a0Birgisson\u00a0traded in his bowed guitar for a couple of Moogs and ARPs.<\/p>\n<p>As a bonus, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/5\/21\/3034038\/bonus-clip-infinity-shred-performs-hologram-on-the-verge\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">watch Infinity Shred perform \u201cHologram\u201d on The Verge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M83&#8217;s super-powered kids reunite, Infinity Shred ventures into deep space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1223,"featured_media":22186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[531,757],"class_list":["post-22151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asides","category-music","tag-grace-notes","tag-m83"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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