M83 Junk

M83's 2016 Studio Album Junk on Colored 2LP.

Color Of Vinyl Subject To Change Without Notice / Call To Confirm Colored Copies Are Still Available

Mute is excited to announce a new color vinyl repress of M83’s seventh studio album Junk.

With Junk (2016), the GRAMMY-nominated, platinum-selling artist set out to craft what they called “an organized mess” - a collection of songs that shouldn’t belong together but somehow do. The album spans from the fractured yet infectious opener “Do It, Try It,” blending old-school house pianos with pop-art hooks, to “Solitude,” a cinematic, melancholic epic that has since gone viral on TikTok.

Feeling a renewed kinship with Gonzalez's early musical inspirations like Tangerine Dream, Aphex Twin, and genre-expanding visionaries like Brian Wilson and Kevin Shields, M83 both returned to his roots with this album, yet makes a logical leap forward. And while M83 albums have always combined genres in a nostalgic and provocative way – from shoegaze and ambient to synth-pop and '90s alt-rock – for Junk, Gonzalez experiments adventurously with sounds and styles he's never previously attempted in his music. "All my albums have layers of eclecticism to them, but with this album I wanted to take that even further," he adds.

On the album title Junk Gonzalez divulges, "Anything we create today is going to end up being space junk at one point anyway, and I find it really fascinating and scary at the same time – beautiful too in a way. I have this image of pieces of humanity floating in space, lost forever. It also means that nowadays everything goes so fast and everybody is kind of throwing away art in a certain manner. People will listen to an album for instance and just pick a track they like to put on a playlist. They're not going to take the time to listen to an album anymore because they have to jump on the next thing."

This color repress follows M83’s acclaimed 2023 studio album Fantasy.