A CD retrospective - Hurry up, we're dreaming

I've done a lot of listening and not a lot of writing recently, so here's a bit of blog-diarrhea (I'm not suggesting what I'm writing is or isn't shit, but posting several blogs at once - is).

Hurry up, we're dreaming by M83
This is actually one of the newest albums I own, and one of a few in recent memory I was both actually anticipating and not disappointed by.
Mr K introduced me to M83 in 2005 with their 3rd album Before the dawn heals us - nothing has sounded quite like that since. This is an excellent album none-the-less.

I saw this video on YouTube in the summer of 2011 which got me quite excited - full of retro synthesizers and a track that (I don't want to say soars)...swells with energy.  You may recognise it from any number of Red Bull adverts, or episodes of Top Gear - this album featured quite heavily on both during 2012.

Anyway, it's a double album that runs for about 80 minutes.  For something so expansive, grand and soaked with synth it is surprisingly light-feeling.  It does have some weaker songs, and some strange ones.  Raconte-moi une histoire in particular I found quite...not quite creepy as such, but not normal.
These lines in particular, imagine this being said in a childs (girls) voice.

If you touch its skin

You can feel your body changing

And your vision also

And blue becomes red and red becomes blue

And your mommy suddenly becomes your daddy

And everything looks like a giant cupcake

I'm still not bored of listening to the album, despite me over-playing it.  I actually use the last track on the album as my alarm clock in the morning - it's like someone translated a hopeful and tranquil sunrise into music.