![]() ![]() Chilly Gonzales plays a 45-second piano solo that takes us into ‘Within’, marking the transition from the first three tracks. It’s a life-affirming salute to the power of the imagination.Īfter this, there’s a sea change. When he tells us that when we create art there are no rules, the music proves him right. ![]() When he describes the beginnings of the disco beat, we hear an insistent click track. The record is loosely themed around a robot’s attempt to become human, and if he needs a guide who better than the producer who gave us Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’? ‘Giorgio By Moroder’ is a documentary of sorts, in which the titular hero narrates his life story. ‘The Game Of Love’ slips into a slower tempo, as a melancholy android discovers heartbreak. The sound of a happy crowd gurgles in the background. It features Chic’s Nile Rodgers and Paul Jackson Jr, who played on ‘Thriller’, so it’s as funky as you’d expect. Opener ‘Give Life Back To Music’ sets the tone with guitars that wouldn’t have sounded out of place on Giorgio Moroder’s Top Gun score. Yeah, Radiohead, I’m talking to you.ĭaft Punk have enjoyed near-universal acclaim over 20 years and three albums but ‘Random Access Memories’ is their greatest achievement: an ambitious masterpiece you can’t imagine being made by anyone other than Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. How many great bands turn their backs on putting out the same old shit only to release records so calculatingly ‘out there’ they feel like maths homework? They forget this is supposed to be FUN. It’s rare to hear a record that doesn’t sound like anything you’ve ever heard, and rarer still to hear one that also puts a smile on your face. And he said it two and a half thousand years ago, which puts people moaning about things sounding like the ’80s into perspective. Jacket Gatefold.What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again there is nothing new under the sun.” So said the Preacher of Ecclesiastes. "By assembling a cast of their favourite musicians and delving into their adolescent memories, Daft Punk have created something as emotionally honest as any singer-songwriter confessional - and a lot more fun to dance to." - NME Tracklist: ![]() Metacritic scores the album 87 out of 100, based on reviews by 37 critics. Random Access Memories is their most ambitious and epic release to date comprising 13 tracks which clock in at over 75 minutes long. They also appeared in and scored Disney's "Tron: Legacy" (2010) which sold 700,000 copies and catapulted them to even greater heights Daft Punk released their critically acclaimed debut Homework in 1997 and sophomore set Discovery to even further fanfare in 2001. Their awareness reached critical mass when they performed their hit "Stronger" on the Grammy Awards with Kanye West in 2008. One of the most anticipated albums of 2013, Random Access Memories (Columbia Records) is the fourth full-length from Daft Punk and their first studio effort in eight years following 2005's Human After All. They're immortal man-machines sent from the future to teach our planet how to relive its maligned disco yesteryears. And with the release of Random Access Memories they seem more than popular. Over time, pseudonymity has transformed the duo into an entity without genre, race, age or nationality, allowing them to produce pop music in the purest sense. Įverybody wants to dance with the men in the masks, advises We know that Thomas Bengalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo are two Parisians just shy of 40, but the founders of French house duo Daft Punk have hidden their faces for years, sporting helmets and gloves that make them look like bespoke androids. Winner of a Gruvy Award, chosen by AnalogPlanet's editor, Michael Fremer, for vinyl records that are musically and sonically outstanding and are also well mastered and pressed. Featuring "Get Lucky" and "Lose Yourself To Dance"Īlbum download and 12-inch booklet included ![]()
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