Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

Yeah, they turned him into Michael McDonald! Didn't know Todd had that in him.

contact is awesome, with that feedback that sounds like an engine, constantly in crescendo.

bit weird that contact is apparently about 10 years old and they made it with falcon around the same time as "so much love to give"

Love it when Touch goes all Dr Buzzard's Original Savannah Band for a minute!

I think that I got Motherboard and Beyond confused, Motherboard is this record's Voyager. The arpeggio one.

Dr Buzzard with really really thick Love Boat strings over the top. Too much coconut.

you can smell the polyester

panda bear tune is pretty good, they actually hem him into a much more structured place than he's usually in.

overall this is feeling like a noble and ambitious slight miss to me. but i can imagine giving it a good few listens over the next couple of weeks.

bit weird that contact is apparently about 10 years old and they made it with falcon around the same time as "so much love to give"

― ... (LocalGarda), dinsdag 14 mei 2013 1:47 (12 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is OTM. For someone (Falcon) who hasn't laid anything into a groove for 10 years or so, this is beneath 'So much love to give' or 'Together'.

I did read just today he is working on new material though, a new EP/12". Which would be awesome.

Casablancas joint is my least fave after two listens. Panda Bear track kinda rules

"Within" interpolates a variant on the "Against All Odds" theme.

Panda Bear tune is a banger!

Casablancas joint is my least fave after two listens. Panda Bear track kinda rules

Only had one listen but Casablancas one actively annoyed me.

Not really feeling Contact.

no it isn't. that's not what "banger" means.

xp

I can't imagine a situation where I'd want to relisten to "Lose Yourself to Dance."

thought contact was self-sampling "rollin' and scratchin'" for a minute

probably not a full minute actually

yeahhhhh that was what i thought too!

it;s what kids on youtube nowadays call "shreds" tbh

Beyond is really lovely, very Sebastien Tellier. I kinda wish more people had given his last album a listen it was quite brilliant.

Contact reminds me of their remix of Franz Ferdinand's Take Me Out, but done right.

They should put out Fragments of Time as the next single, this sounds like the other big hit on the album. Surprisingly there doesn't seem to be many obvious singles on here.

i'm kinda meh you guys! I wanted to love it cuz I wanted something new and shiny to play but i'm afraid if I bought this on cd I would be skipping around like crazy. would probably just enjoy a cd with ten versions of get lucky.

guest star stuff usually kinda bums me out if I see a track-listing filled with other people. unless its a rap album. though track-listings that feature puffy or kanye bum me out. multiple other folks make records seem instantly dated. plus, ugh, panda bear. but this is why god invented i-devices. just rip the good stuff to your i-pak and put on your e-buds.

Fragments of Time sounds like the type of single that would be pitched to Adult Contemporary stations to play.

I'd say Instant Crush and Lose Yourself to Dance have single potential.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw

So Doing it Right is almost great, as people have mentioned the phrasing is a bit jarring but the "Doing it right" bit itself is so catchy.

This does remind me a little of Quincy Jones albums from the early 80s, so many celebrities involved.

Huh, I can't tell if this album sounds ahead of the curve or way behind the curve. Sounds good, though!

Singles people and album people ITT.

"Doin' It Right" reminds me of that Holy Ghost track a couple years ago -- a bad thing?

So much to take in after just one play. Even though I'd built this album up so much in my head I really do not feel disappointed. I'm not going to try and claim it's a masterpiece but there are so many great moments that left me grinning. I'm looking forward to spending a lot more time with it.

Prog and disco have never openly begged for their own hybrid, but the genres' newborn Frankenbaby is alive, whether we like it or not. Still, this beast, however grotesque, is relatively harmless-- rather than running amok in the village and snapping the necks of civilians, it only wants to "celebrate and dance so free, one more time." Just don't let it sing.

Is this only streaming on desktop iTunes?

Eh, the more this plays, the more I can already tell I'm unlikely to listen to it very much. Surely more than the Knife album, but probably no more than, say, Johnny Jewel's "Symmetry/Themes for an Imaginary Film." But then, I've thought all the Daft Punk LPs have been pretty tough start-to-finish listens. There's so much I like, but also just ... so much. And not enough.

A+ background music for dinner parties, I bet.

but Chic is better for dinner partites!

Are we not maybe overstating the prog thing?

How do you stream this from their itunes page?

Is this only streaming on desktop iTunes?

― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, May 13, 2013 8:50 PM

i was able to listen to it on my ipad

itunes app, daft punk page

I like that this album reminds me of a lot of different disco bands/styles. I kept thinking of bands like Space and Bombers who had a slightly prog feel, at other times I'd think of someone like Gino Soccio. Some of the production especially some of the strings reminds me of Alec R. Costandinos. I guess at one point I was expecting an album full of Chic style bangers but they've covered a bit of everything, all the sounds that made disco so great. As it's been said it's a very melancholic, another thing I loved about disco. Most great disco albums contained at least one great ballad. You can tell they are obsessed with that genre and I think they've done a great job capturing those sounds.

the new Justice album was kind of a prog/disco hybrid and it was....okay

but Chic is better for dinner partites!

Oh, by far, and it has better kitsch value, too. And it's got a lot more character than this does. In fact, I had Chic playing the last time we had friends over! This sounds pretty good at low volume though.

al, no way. that holy ghost record is amazing too

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loool

I really should have put that last thing in quotes. its from pitchfork circa 2001 or whatever. don't want anyone to get the idea that I wrote that thing. ethan put that on facebook and I got confused until I googled.

Weird -- this is streaming in iPad but not iPhone.

okay serious lol time @ "The Game Of Love"

This feels like Herbie Hancock ca. Lite Me Up.