2011 was one hell of a year. The Bruins won the Stanley Cup, Drive was released in theaters, and M83 threw down an electronic-pop gauntlet with influential and expansive album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, which gave us the decade-defining modern classic “Midnight City.” We can still feel the memes of Bill Clinton playing that saxophone solo coursing through our digital veins.
We’re revisiting all those hazy memories today (October 16), a dozen years (editor’s note: Woof) later, because the project of French multi-instrumentalist Anthony Gonzalez has unearthed a “previously unreleased” track called “Mirror” for all our streaming pleasures.
The buzzing composition was initially a hidden track discovered only as a secret download in the CD packaging of Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, and a few years later resurfaced as a 7-inch for Record Store Day. Recently, “Mirror” has closed out M83’s live sets on the Fantasy Tour, so it makes sense to give the fan-favorite deep cut some streaming action. Gonzalez sure thinks so.
“It’s a track that never came out digitally and we close our shows with that song,” Gonzalez tells Billboard. “The response of the audience has been great so far, and it’s an unknown song that deserves to be properly released in my opinion.”
Hold it up below.