Marcel Winatschek

In the Cold I’m Standing

Midnight City got played so much I stopped actually hearing it. Good song, sure, but saturation kills anything eventually. So when In the Cold I’m Standing showed up—new to me, anyway, though it’s actually from 2005—I was willing to listen.

The track has that Sigur Rós, Mogwai sensibility: patient, atmospheric, designed for solitude. The video is just smoke and stillness and a bird overhead. No flash, no trying. It works better that way.

I don’t think M83 is going to tour in any direction I’ll reach. And I’m fine with that. Not everything needs to be a live event. A song like this does its job in the dark, and that’s all it needs.