While promoting the ninth M83 album, Fantasy, Anthony Gonzalez has gently lamented a lack of cultural mystery. It’s a fitting complaint from a master on this subject: His music, an ambitious melding of arena-sized dream-pop, sky-sized shoegaze and hyper-emotional synth-pop, never spoon-feeds you meaning. The lyrics, at their best, are reverb-saturated glossolalia that fit whatever form of slo-mo movie-soundtrack moment happens to unfold in your presence. You don’t look to the stars to decipher a message—you look because they churn one up inside you. On paper, it’s a risky move to issue a borderline instrumental as the lead single from your first album in seven years—the only two words Gonzalez sings on the churning “Oceans Niagara” are the ever-fitting scene-setter “Beyond adventure!” But it makes sense for M83: All that matters is the majestic architecture of those synths and the unrivaled yearning in his voice. It still feels like a mild fluke—some chance combination of timing and cultural nostalgia—that Gonzalez broke into the mainstream with his sax-peppered 2011 smash, “Midnight City.” And, as on his most recent LP, 2016’s Junk, nothing on Fantasy reaches that level of pop transcendence. (The title track’s euphoric space-disco and “Earth to Sea,” with its crinkled-up guitars and late ‘70s synth-bass, comes closest.) This one’s all in the meticulously layered details: The digital harp glissando on “Amnesia,” the orchestral drift that opens “Kool Nuit,” the subtle hint of twang in the misty-eyed strumming of “Radar, Far Gone.” Gaze up—and inward—with wonder.