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I've actually seen it described as their first album with "no electronics except for a modular synthesizer and some vintage vocoders,"

daft punk's first album without non-transparent synthesizers

On other news, "Fragments of Time" isn't totally rocking my world yet. The microsampling is softer and smoother than before. The guitar parts are nice. But Todd's vocal feels a little safe to me -- very straight and lacking a melody that really pulls it across the finish line. Willing to give it a few more listens.

The irony is "Doin' It Right" is this album's "Face to Face," not "Fragments" -- penultimate track, the Daft Punk-ization of a guest's well-worn style. Whatever you think of PB's part, the vocoder bit has a sweetness to it I find irresistible.

"Motherboard" is all kinds of awesome.

did casablancas co-author the song he sings?

b/c it's hard to know if the melody line and the guitar are "homage to the strokes" or "another song written by the guy who co-writes the strokes' songs"

also, it's odd that they hired JC for his vocal stylings (what I figured was the "grain" of his voice) and then obscured them via vocoder -- although a bit of his vocal personality comes through.

i know i said some open-mind things yesterday but i am not enjoying this album

Traitor

So... I loved Fragments of Time and I'm not well versed on Steely Dan but I've seen some of you throwing comparisons itt. Please recommend me some songs by them.

https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/129730596/2630509441_944a6ee3e2_m.jpg

All of them. Listen to all of them.

xp to amateurist, idk if casablancas co-wrote that song, but it does sound very strokesy and definitely seems, to me, to be almost as distinctively casablancas as doin' it right is distinctively panda bear.

No! There's too much. Pick three songs for starters. Please?

listen to time out of mind first and come then back here with your thoughts

here u go mokster

PO3: steely dan songs

Diplo about RAM:
"This daft punk album would probably be really good to take drugs and listen to on a rainy bridge across the gulf of mexico but I dnt know ... Reminds me of when I was 19 really high and listened to kid a over and over again but I don't know if yung kids will get It ... I think the song with julian casablancas would be better with marky mark walbergs character from boogie nights doing the vocals ... The song with todd edwards makes me feel like I'm alone at waffle house and the jukebox is broken and only micheal mcdonald plays out of it ... Motherboard sounds like a coked up austrian guy working on chariots of fire soundtrack then got fired but I fuck with it."

it's odd that they hired JC for his vocal stylings (what I figured was the "grain" of his voice) and then obscured them via vocoder -- although a bit of his vocal personality comes through.

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, May 14, 2013 8:21 PM (33 minutes ago)

now that would be quite a trick

vinyl rip out there now

"now that would be quite a trick"

explique-moi

(was that a strokes knock? coz i dunno about their last few albums but those first two are still fucking great, and his vocals are full of personality.)

'fragments of time' really struck me as more doobies than steely dan but 'time out of mind' might be the track -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB2I_VEozc4

'instant crush' is my favourite track atm

I'm liking this album, but I feel like it's lacking in saxophone solos.

Touch brings some brass.

I like how Giorgio has a click solo, a moog solo, a bass solo, a piano solo, a vinyl scratch solo and a guitar solo...

And the end of Lose Yourself To Dance reminds me of California Love and Instant Crush reminds me of the nineties. I don't know why.

I still haven't had a chance to listen to this dang album, but I'm about to throw on Gaucho as I drift off to sleep, so everything's cool.

I just figured out the song "Beyond" sounds like is M. McD "I keep forgettin'" so I was singing "Regulators" over it

daft punk's first brass band album

― umair coque (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://boingboing.net/2013/05/14/brassft-punk-brass-band-cover.html

insane

The drumming on this album is just so fuckin nice

yeah do we know anything about the drummer(s) yet?

SWEAT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_McCarroll

lmao

Think someone upthread (Jordan?) said there were two guys on drums, one of whom is Omar Hakim who has played with people like Sting and Bowie and whatnot.

The other one is definitely Tony McCarroll.

Classic drum-dork photo of Hakim:

http://g.virbcdn.com/_f/images/5c/PageImage-486051-1842237-OmarALR.jpg

behold my enormous cymbals!

Al Roker on drums, ladies and gentlemen!

Touch is just so amazing, I know this is prob the third time I've said that but is also only the third time I've listened.

I was listening to this album on the train last night and the rain was coming down, and the girl opposite me who was looking out of the window unconnectedly just started weeping at the exact point the choir on Touch came in. I assumed she'd prefer to be left alone but it was kind of a weird thing to have happening opposite with this emotionally overwrought 70s soft rock ballad soundtracking it.

Either it was unconnected or Daft Punk were just controlling the universe to suit the music.

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Either it was unconnected or Daft Punk were just controlling the universe to suit the music.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, May 15, 2013 12:33 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wouldn't put it past those fuckers.

this is my feeling when listening to this:

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2oibwiSB01qz9rjn.gif

guys you can totally dance to the new Fall album

The drum solo on Giorgio putting me in mind of the end of "Aja"

^texted my drum-nerd brother this as i was first listening

(was that a strokes knock? coz i dunno about their last few albums but those first two are still fucking great, and his vocals are full of personality.)

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:35 PM (Yesterday)

strokes knock

finally read the pitchfork interview, this line is interesting:

At one point during our interview, Bangalter let it slip that he and de Homem-Christo recently had a meeting with De Palma to "discuss some things," though he declined to divulge any specifics.

!!!!!

O SHIT

would eat lima beans to see that shit

eat enough lima beans and you will