That M83 would follow up their earnest if not truly unique debut with what turned out to be a cornerstone of 21st century shoegaze, post-rock and popular electronic music all at once probably wasn’t on anyone’s list of predictions, yet 2003’s Dead Cities turned out to be just that both at home and across the world. “Run Into Flowers” became the group’s earliest standard, as perfect a capturing of the ‘soundtrack without a film’ feeling as any, but the air of energy suffused with melancholy heard there carried throughout the album exquisitely.