‘Familiar’-sounding surprises dominate Junk. Bibi The Dog even surprises the listener with a ‘Chipmunk’-styled vocal, coming right out of nowhere. Go!, for example delivers every ingredient from the 80s recipe, featuring cheesy saxophone moments, a synth brass section, slap bass and a way too stereotypical guitar solo in it. Still, there’s a gentle lightness in its sound that you’ll find in many moments on Junk. Do It, Try It opens the record with a joyful retro piano before turning into familiar M83 upbeat territories. Right from the start Gonzalez leaves no doubt where the journey is heading to. The seventh album by his alter ego is inspired by 80s TV themes, jingles and all those nostalgic sound elements that make you think ‘Ah, I remember that from somewhere…’ Junk is the result of that, an attempt to deal with whatever happened as Gonzalez is looking for answers in the past of his musical influences. He needed to cut things down again, return to the essence of his music and… well, having adventurous fun again in the studio instead of just delivering the next ‘epic M83 trailer piece’. Still, although Gonzalez finally got M83 to the next level and a certain financial stability, he was clearly overstrained by the sudden rise to fame.
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He slowly but steady built up a reputation prior to it and then – boom – the pop super jam Midnight City happened, the concert venues got bigger, the Grammys found him and his music become a priority pick when it comes to movie trailers and movies itself (remember when he scored 2013′ sci-fi flick Oblivion with Tom Cruise?). One could easily get the impression that Anthony Gonzalez got a bit sick of whatever happened to M83 in the aftermath of his 2011’s Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming.
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