Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

so glad it's not gonna be a saul williams vid

Get Lucky Edit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hHSH9sJUEo

Fuck yeah a minor. The most louche of all the keys. La Ritournelle is in that, no?

Q review http://imgur.com/a/sYWEk

PROG DISCO

oh i just came, sorry

The first column of that review made me want to hate this album, the second half made me very excited indeed.

BELIEVE

I still dont like the cover. It seems like 2013 is the year for bad, lazy artwork.

All the anticipated records have had some halfassed artwork (yeah yeah yeahs, david bowie, justin timberlake, rihanna, mbv, strokes, azealia banks, phoenix, the knife, charli xcx, atoms for peace, daft punk). All lame.

And im not even counting hip hop. Lil wayne, waka flocka flame, kid cudi and tyler the creator are pretty offensive.

who would have thought artwork would suffer in the age of downloaded music

I just got the Knife album on CD and am marvelling at how horrible the cover is. Next to that or the Yeah Yeah Yeahs this is a thing of beauty.

http://www.mixmag.net/words/features/seb-wheeler-random-access-memories-review
http://www.factmag.com/2013/04/30/at-points-its-so-prog-it-hurts-first-thoughts-on-daft-punks-random-access-memories/

jesus, that review really makes it sound good.

The first column of that review made me want to hate this album, the second half made me very excited indeed.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, May 1, 2013 4:51 AM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my understanding is that they brought in Chilly Gonzales to build a musical bridge between the two columns

wow that Q review is dreadfully written..."the killer love drug Ecstasy"

That would be a joke

ha

ban jokes

Rodgers and Jackson whip up a breezy Californian vibe that makes you feel like you’re at the wheel of a convertible, speeding down an open highway beneath a vast blue sky…

This is a massive cliche but otoh this is the best kind of music.

makes it sounds like the eagles to me

Would be down with Daft Punk doing the Eagles if I'm quite honest.

wow that Q review is dreadfully written..."the killer love drug Ecstasy"

it sort of stuck out to me - it's not funny enough to distinguish as a clear joke.

it's the old "laughing at how bad your own writing is joke that is not really a joke and kind of self congratulatory" joke

the album sounds good though

Reads like self-deprecating old-fogeyness to me, not even laughing at own writing.

I just got the Knife album on CD and am marvelling at how horrible the cover is. Next to that or the Yeah Yeah Yeahs this is a thing of beauty.

― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, May 1, 2013 5:23 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

the knife cover is aweseeom fuiud

ah it wasn't just that odd drug reference also the kind of clumsy "the voice is, of course, Giorgio Moroder's" type description of 'Giorgio, by Moroder' (ft. Giorgio Moroder) tone throughout that annoyed me (even just "their fourth album proper..." and then having to qualify this further...just get on with it!)

wgaf i was trying no to spoiler myself anymoer but the mixmag descriptions do have me pretty excited, apart from for the todd track :/

Early version of Contact on this 2002 mix apparently:

http://www.factmag.com/2013/05/01/stream-an-early-version-of-contact-the-dj-falcon-featuring-closer-from-daft-punks-random-access-memories/

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1706595/daft-punk-random-access-memories-album-review.jhtml

And the album's most epic track, "Giorgio by Moroder," begins with an extended monologue by Moroder himself, pauses momentarily with a goosebump-raising drop — "My name is Hansjörg Moroder ... but you can call me Giorgio" — then blasts off with fuzzed-out guitar, strings, bubbly bass and even some laser bursts for good measure. You will dance until you drop.

stoked.

seems like the embargo on writing about this thing ended today, lotsa track-by-track pieces going up

saw chilly gonzales playing the piano last night and he had a big screen behind showing a bird's eye view of the keyboard and he said are you excited about the new daft punk record I was going to play a few things from it but then I spoke to their lawyers and well maybe I can show you instead and he did a bit of moving his hands around over the keyboard not playing anything and saying there's some of this and then a bit of this and the chorus and then it builds to this and then it goes kind of crazy and it was quite funny

wkiw chilly

That FACT review is a healthy antidote to the hype. I've got presentiments of Aeroplane's We Can't Fly, now.

Wouldn't trust Fact on this record.

lol aeroplane anticipation compared to daft punk anticipation cmon

Of course there's no comparison in popular stature. But for me, the Aeroplane debut was the most anticipated of 2010. And the deviations from successful formula FACT notes are not dissimilar - if RAM indeed resembles Toto IV, its another example of the pitfalls of yacht disco.

Still very much looking forward to the Nile Rodgers and Georgio Moroder tracks.

think it's weird to jump from "these are songs about feelings" to "Disney soundtrack" but who knows

didn't the aeroplane album immediately receive terrible reviews

The number of Daft Punk songs I don't ever want to hear again is many times higher than the number of Daft Punk songs I want to hear again.

xp
Yes. The Aeroplane singles/remixes practically defined architectural, not too saccarrine nu-disco in 2009-10, so the reviewers and audience had little interest in a proggy record.

From the reviews it seems like the RAM experience is more mixed, maybe like some Donna Summer sidelong suite, ambitious, maybe not so functional.

this album will be better than human after all but worse than discovery

that is a category that 99% of records belong to tho

Of the reviews I've read so far, this one seemed the most mixed to negative:
http://thequietus.com/articles/12144-daft-punk-random-access-memories-track-by-track-preview

I don't get the angle of some of these reviews. So it's not "the future of electronic music". Why would anyone expect it to be?

prob b/c the promo vids said it was the future of electronic music

Kind of makes me worried that Fact says Get Lucky is the most chart friendly track in here. I was expecting at least two more chart hits in this one.

Like, at this point I'd rather have Daft Punk pretending to save pop music instead of electronic music.

this thread is going to be really entertaining to re-read in a couple months

Would Discovery have sounded like the future in 2001 though? If it does now it's because other records borrowed its tricks. This one *might* but we can hardly know that on zeroth listen.

If it does, my guess is it'll be because of the loudness thing - Get Lucky certainly sounds weird on my phone speaker, which I think is it trying to compensate for the lack of brickwalling.