Thriller access memories8/15/2023 ![]() ![]() ‘Beyond’ is another melancholy-hearted collaboration with Paul Williams. His background in psychedelic storytelling is put to use on an eight-minute epic that changes shape every time you draw breath. Paul Williams might be best known as a composer for the Muppets, but Daft Punk love him best as Swan, the villainous antihero of operatic horror film Phantom Of The Paradise. ![]() Sitting between the two is the record’s startling centrepiece, ‘Touch’. ‘Lose Yourself To Dance’ is paired with ‘Get Lucky’, representing the album’s poppiest moments and featuring the dream team of Nile Rodgers and Pharrell Williams. He’ll be hard-pressed to catch all of Julian Casablancas’ quickfire lyrics on ‘Instant Crush’, an instant nightclub anthem. The track itself is restrained, as our robot protagonist begins to realise just how much he’s yet to understand. This is a record that’s been painstakingly slaved over. 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. 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. Critical reception to the album has generally been positive. The album also features collaborations with Panda Bear, Julian Casablancas, Todd Edwards, DJ Falcon, Chilly Gonzales, Giorgio Moroder, Nile Rodgers, Paul Williams and Pharrell Williams. Daft Punk recorded the album largely using live instrumentation with session musicians, and limited the use of electronics to drum machines, a modular synthesizer and vintage vocoders. Random Access Memories pays tribute to the late 1970s and early 80s era of music in the United States, particularly the sound of Los Angeles recordings of the period. Shortly after Daft Punk signed with Columbia, a gradual promotional rollout began for the album including billboards, television advertising and a web series. Work started on the record concurrently with the Tron: Legacy score, without a clear plan as to what its structure would be. It will be released by Daft Life under exclusive license to Columbia Records on in Australia, in the United Kingdom and on in the United States. Random Access Memories is the upcoming fourth studio album by French electronic music duo Daft Punk. ![]()
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