Okay I will do my best to write a review that reflects my listening experience and hopefully not sound cheesy.First off, this M83 CD rules! End of story. If Saturdays=Youth was this artists pop song pinnacle, then this is this the pinnacle as far as more abstract soundscapes go. It's a neat contrast, those 2 CD's and especially since this one has a more operatic sweep (and minus the vocals) while the other mentioned one is perfect for a party atmosphere and more vocals. Yeah I know "Run Into Flowers" has vocals on it, but it's buried underneath the glacier bed of synths and it's more drone-like, existing merely as another shade of tonal color.DCRSLG has a more pastoral beauty to it. It's like a love story being played out but in the context of some futuristic setting. Don't you think it speaks that theme when you hear the opening track "Birds"? The lines "Sun is Shining, Birds are singing, Flowers are Blooming, Clouds are Looming and I am Flying" seem to suggest a story about a robot trying to understand human emotions through the act of love, describing the scene around him as if Love were a subatomic force emerging in the material structure of reality around him. That's what I get from those opening lines.Now go ahead, call me a wacko crackpot theorist who is looking too deeply into things and say it's only music. That's just the point, the imaginative element that music creates to stimulate ones subjective experience. I feel these things from the robot vocals and the steamy, misty one chord string synth introducing the album. There is both a sense of beauty, but also uncertainty at the same time.The following track "Unrecorded" is just as, if not even more so, beautiful. I really enjoy how driving this track is, and the way it really gives the album steam, blissful melodies on top of pounding drums. The way the melody-harmony layering changes overtime is impressive. When the drums drop out and you're left with those warm synth tones, it's like you're given a moment of reprieve to meditate on where you are at that moment in time and what is yet to come."0078h" is a curious track with indecipherable vocals. Where the hell did they sample these from, and what is being sung here? It's always a rush hearing this song and guessing at the great mystery buried underneath these chaotic layers. Plus it has a rather upbeat, danceable feel to it that I enjoy.And yes, "Beauties Can Die" is a piece of unearthly beauty with it's structure. The keys, soft fuzzed guitar, orchestral strings, everything about it is supremely scrumptious and sweet. Even the moments where there are silence help to give the landscape it is painting in your mind more space to carve out.There is a Bonus CD which adds an extra special flavor. The Cyann & Ben cover of "In Church" is a delight to hear, especially the way they extend the original. God of Thunder is a blast to hear, and their funnest track of the whole bunch. Just love that club sound they create with the 80's New Wave like beat. Breathtaking. And the title track which rounds it all off is an exercise in ambient sculpting.Overall, certainly buy this CD. I consider to it to be a rather deep listening experience and not something I would naturally throw on for background music. You really have to participate in this music rather than having it be something you passively have on. Hopefully you get what I mean. Enjoy :)