Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

Ok it's legit and it's good, makes me excited for the rest of the album. Not much happening here though; great Chic guitars leading the song (Niles should def feature in every track), an ocassional synth arpeggio (a la Hall and Oates I cant go for that) and vocoded voices repeating the lyrics (which sound like 'let the music get your life, give life back to music"). Sounds cool as an intro.

Canadian double agents

Isn't there a strong rumour that iTunes will be streaming the album from the 13th? So it'll instantly "leak" then (although in shitty quality).

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/198437/review-daft-punk-random-access-memories/

Another early review. A comparison to Air's 10000hz is dropped at one track, found it funny considering it was predicted upthread.

There is no standout “One More Time,” nor is this a party album. This is a party album made by people who have graduated to more sophisticated parties.

so it's...a party album?

Ugh, "sophisticated parties". What a way to put people off.

"Ambassador, viz zis Random Access Memories you are really spoiling uz"

DINNER PARTIES

I love having people round for food and boardgames and minimal techno.

oh marcia, this flan is just to die for! and who brought the daft punk?

I don't know if Nick's being sarcastic but that sounds great

I do honestly play minimal when i have friends round for tea (though i am 23 so a 'dinnner party' is burger and chips or whatever)

I'm totally not being sarcastic. Bro-in-law was round last night and we played Carcassonne and listened to Four Tet and a Kompakt compilation (he didn't come round for food yesterday but he did last weekend and we did the same).

I'm 34 so the dinner party is like green pork chilli followed by brownies with pistacchio gelato or whatever.

Fuck a pork tbh but Carcassonne is the best.

I do honestly play minimal when i have friends round for tea (though i am 23 so a 'dinnner party' is burger and chips or whatever)

every time i have/go to dinner party it ends with everyone being absolutely hammered and dancing to house/disco youtubes, "all that she wants" by wham is always played, as is "amazing" by george michael and probably "fast love", the dj spen remix of brother by angie stone, arto mwambe's remix of manuel tur.

it's kind of formulaic and sometimes i think we really should reboot our circle of friends/interests, but it is fun. over the last few years the quality of the food and wine is the only thing that's changed. #middleclass

@FACTmag 6m

Hey, we have interview time with DJ Falcon today but our writer's pulled out and we need someone to fill in. Hit us up!

man i like that barnett cover too

I love having people round for food and boardgames and minimal techno.

This pretty much describes 90% of the parties at my house.

i loved that death and taxes review

This is a monumental track – nearly 8 minutes in length – that left this reviewer close to ecstatic tears. Eh fuck you, I’ve waited years for this album, and this is the best return to form I can think of for them. Outstanding.

and:

All I have written here is “MY GOD,” circled it multiple times, and there may be possible tear marks on the paper from when I practically wept at the sheer fucking brilliance of this song. “Contact” is childlike in its simplicity, but don’t let that fool you: by a minute in the song will be stuck in your head for days, weeks, forever. This is a song that will leave you pounding the desk or wall for more by the end of it. The last 30 seconds sound like an entire orchestra is falling on you. There is nothing to compare this to. Jawdropping. Simply incredible. Awe inspiring in the truest sense of the word. I don’t want to spoil this track. It’s a phenomenon.

with this in between:

I didn’t take any notes here. I was too busy talking to the label rep guy. There was wine at the listening party. It was my birthday.

That's a very good description of Contact.

sound like an entire orchestra is falling on you

^!

Yeah, that's awesome.

It sounds like Owner of A Lonely Heart?

Didn't Mike Mills sound like Veridis Quo?

sounds like... my life

~possible tear marks~

"Isn't there a strong rumour that iTunes will be streaming the album from the 13th? So it'll instantly "leak" then (although in shitty quality)."

iTunes doesn't stream music at all, so this would be interesting to say the least.

iTunes Store bruh

I really hope it doesn't leak. I want my first experience with it to be the vinyl I've pre-ordered and if it leaks I won't have the discipline to not listen to it.

iTunes does streaming of purchased stuff direct to Apple TV, now.

iTunes doesn't stream music at all, so this would be interesting to say the least.

They've done it at least twice this year already with the David Bowie and Justin Timberlake albums.

w/ vampire weekend too iirc

I meant streaming as in listen to the entire album for free via iTunes Store a week or so before its release (like they did with Phoenix, Vampire Weekend and numerous other albums)

I think they're actually calling themself iStreamAlbumPreviewsLeakyLeaky now.

Daft Punk: they say things:

http://www.spin.com/articles/daft-punk-interview-triple-j-radio-stream/

kind of disappointed that Thomas has lost his English stutter

Feeling very jealous right now about the parties some of y'all are having. I don't know nearly enough people in Austin who enjoy board games + dance music. We got the green chilli pork covered though...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C683ACADxkw

that vid is way 2 aa 4 me

video delivers

whoa yeah. I was hanging with it until he started saying "me me me me me" and miming his coke intake. wow, he's only 3 years sober? jeez.

23

Oh, I thought he said "touring 3 years ago when I got sober".

Continuing on the hype. fuse review :

http://www.fuse.tv/2013/05/daft-punk-random-access-memories-track-by-track

http://instagram.com/p/Y07haiK1IL/#

Take my shirt and wipe up all your sweat.

lol I don't know how I feel about this lyric

Video defo delivers.

Man, it makes me think how awesome it would have been if Daft Punk had asked Mark E. Smith to collaborate, just for the accompanying video alone

The Daft Punk/Phantom of the Paradise connection seems really obvious now, but it somehow never occurred to me.

According to a Guardian interview with Daft Punk, "Hundreds of bands may tout cinematic references, yet few have them as hard-wired as Daft Punk. Guy-Man and Thomas met two decades ago this year, at the perfect cinema-going ages of 13 and 12... the one movie which they saw together more than 20 times was Phantom of the Paradise, Brian De Palma's 1974 rock musical, based loosely around Phantom of the Opera (both this and Electroma feature 'a hero with a black leather outfit and a helmet').

Not as obvious as the link between Bob Sinclar/Phantom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYEVhmZKvhI