M83 Returns With New Album, ‘I Wrote You a Letter’

Anthony Gonzalez has announced a new M83 album. I Wrote You a Letter arrives September 25 on his own label, Other Suns. The news came through a brief Instagram post that promised “more information soon,” with no music shared yet — just a piece of artwork and a tracklist.

The album follows 2023’s Fantasy, a record that returned Gonzalez to the lush, guitar-heavy sound of his earlier work after 2019’s polarizing DSVII and the pop pivot of Junk. With a new label structure and a title that suggests intimacy or distance, the announcement raises questions without answering them. The cover image and song titles hint at something diaristic, but Gonzalez has rarely been predictable.

No singles have surfaced ahead of the release, which makes the album more of a question mark than a rollout. In an era of extended pre-release campaigns, the silence stands out — a deliberate withholding that could sharpen the impact or simply leave the record adrift. Either way, Gonzalez has earned the right to operate on his own clock. He’s long favored gaps between statements, letting each album land on its own terms rather than feeding a content cycle.

For now, I Wrote You a Letter exists as a title, a date, and a set of song names. What those songs actually sound like remains anyone’s guess. The information is sparse, but the arrival is fixed.