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25 September 2026 – M83 Writes a Letter to His Earlier Self on Tenth Album
By Editorial Team - September 25, 2026
Summary
Anthony Gonzalez marks 25 years of M83 with tenth studio album I Wrote You A Letter on Other Suns, returning to bedroom demo roots with cinematic scope.
Key Facts
- Anthony Gonzalez celebrates 25 years of M83 with tenth studio album I Wrote You A Letter.
- Released via his independent imprint Other Suns, drawing inspiration from raw summer 2024 demos.
- Features collaborative arrangements with Joe Berry, Clément Libes, and Benoit de Villeneuve.
- Entities: M83, Anthony Gonzalez, I Wrote You A Letter, Other Suns, Joe Berry, Clément Libes, Benoit de Villeneuve
- Tags: m83, anthony-gonzalez, i-wrote-you-a-letter, other-suns, electronic, ambient, dream-pop, synth-pop
Anthony Gonzalez celebrates twenty-five years of M83 with I Wrote You A Letter, a nine-track album released through his own Other Suns label and deliberately connected to the instinctive spirit of his earliest bedroom recordings. Album number ten could easily have become an excuse for expensive nostalgia, orchestras and a press release containing the phrase 'career-spanning'. Instead, Gonzalez began with demos dating from summer 2024 and tried to recover the freedom and imperfection that existed before M83 became synonymous with enormous cinematic synth crescendos.
"Blister Sunrise" opens the door, while "Opera," "Aged," "Losing Ground" and "Traces of Love" continue through a record that is recognisably M83 without simply attempting to manufacture another "Midnight City." Gonzalez worked with Joe Berry, Clément Libes and Benoit de Villeneuve, and the album still has plenty of widescreen ambition: choirs, strings, saxophones and synths remain happily employed in his grand electronic soundscapes.
Yet there is also more space than listeners might expect. Twenty-five years after M83 emerged from southern France, Gonzalez appears to be investigating what happens when an artist stops competing with the most famous version of himself. The answer, fortunately, seems to involve fewer fireworks for fireworks' sake and considerably more ambient atmosphere. It is still M83, so the atmosphere could probably be seen from orbit.