You need to listen to M83’s icy post-rock record Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts.

. New York City got hit with a hell of a snowstorm last week.
Before Nicolas Fromageau left the band and Anthony Gonzalez embraced traditional pop song structures, saxophone solos, and teen angst, M83 released two albums of mostly instrumental music. And, inevitably, when I’m watching the snow fall, wandering the oddly quiet streets after dark, people hiding inside and staying warm, I put on M83’s sophomore record, Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts. Black Emperor.