M83’s second album Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts passed me by. It nestles in my collection – a quiet existence, undisturbed by such demands as being listened to. Truth is it disengaged me. Perhaps the context that I yearn for in listening wasn’t there that critical first time.

Saturdays = Youth is a different matter. This album inevitably hooks into the continued rebirth of shoegaze, but time travels a quarter of century into the past and in doing so removes the word ‘shoe’, because this is music so shimmering and reflective that it feels like standing in a wind tunnel full of stars.

Much of my change of heart is to do with the arrangements – more songs, more structure and vocals. Guest appearances from Morgan Kibby ride beautifully alongside Anthony Gonzalez’s breathy vocals. Skin of the Night is one such occasion – it devastates musically and emotionally. In amongst these mid-teen desires, the micro-dramas, the angst.. there is bliss.

Saturdays = Youth – iTunes UK