Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

Tron soundtrack = too much orchestra not enough synth

"drezzed" is the most daft punky on the tron score, right?

hope hollywood lets alex moulton score a film soon :-[

dig the horizon vibe though. would listen to an album of that. i kinda do already with old stuff like that but i'm all for new stuff like that.

like what kind of thing? i like stuff like this but prob the more obvious end of the scale.

love the neville brothers 'yellow moon' synth at 1:26 of 'the game of love'

I'd laugh my arse off if the new Boards Of Canada sounded like Skrillex..."but we thought it was what the kids wanted"...

thanks thread for introducing me to "yellow moon"

If this was Air - and it sounds like it could've been off any of the first 4 Air albums - no one would care. Pretty but...Eno-esque is grasping at straws.

pro tip - i'm not sure anybody outside of the US gives a flying one about Skrillex

if your auntie had a penis she'd be your uncle xpost

fwiw I always read 'Skrillex' as 'Sir Alex', and it gets me slightly annoyed

(xpost) Nice one!

http://nobpm.tumblr.com/post/50990752528/daft-punk-horizon-japan-bonus-track real talk though this is beautiful

oh this is the real deal isn't it? good stuff.

(the link for horizon. i like the country-western sounding electronic guitar part... i always liked that sound.)

Pretty but...Eno-esque is grasping at straws.

wtf? it's what I hear, dogg.

I like Air too!

if you don't hear Eno that's fine, but don't say that I'm "grasping at straws" like I'm a fucking dumbass

I hear it in some tracks, too. hence the 'yellow moon.' eno's been involved with many things. 'sounds like eno' is probably a safe thing to say about music statistically.

it sounds eno-esque because it is an ambient instrumental track that "builds" slowly toward a climax. that's enough to be eno-esque.

or as i say Enosyian

enwegian

brianishtic

Oy. Didn't mean to offend anyone. Sorry, crüt. Will bow out of thread...

sounding like eno is probably easier than sounding like John Bonham. aren't there a bunch of quotes from crusty studio engineers complaining that teenagers walk into their holy studio and ask for a Bonham drumsound. and the crusty studio engineer inserts a dramatic pause before saying something like "you'd better go dig up john bonham then." but brian eno plays synthesizers a lot, you see, and synthesizers can be setup to sound the same, independent of the operator.

Can someone point me to what all these writers are referring to when they call RAM "a disappointment to many fans" before they proceed to say glowing things about it? I've now read this three or four times and have yet to see someone actually disappointed.

Are there "Boo To RAM" chat rooms lex moderates that I'm unaware of?

Try their Lastfm page, plenty of people on there are disappointed.

Or here's a negative review I found via the Hype Machine:
http://www.nerdyframes.org/?p=43474

Ok, Horizon is absolutely gorgeous. Someone get a post-rock/Hydrahead band to cover it ASAP.

Try their Lastfm page, plenty of people on there are disappointed.

― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, May 21, 2013 5:24 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but let's be honest if a critic thought that was a good angle to take ("fans disappointed by new daft punk album") they would do so even if the evidence was a single tweet.

I just accidentally called my local record store while trying to look up their hours during a meeting and bought the last copy of this to avoid saying "I accidentally called you"

if you don't hear Eno that's fine, but don't say that I'm "grasping at straws" like I'm a fucking dumbass

― ḉrut (crüt), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 21:55 (1 hour ago) Permalink

not laughing at you crut, but I like this as the new board description.

wait you bought a record over the phone in the middle of a meeting? like maybe there was a powerpoint happening, and you're like "uh, excuse me, do you have any copies of the new daft punk left?"

Thought yelp would just give me the number, not call it immediately. Realized it was calling. Excused myself from meeting. Pretended someone had called me. Bought record bc I didn't know what else to say to the nice lady at the record store

"Horizon" snippet is totally gorgeous.

Oy. Didn't mean to offend anyone. Sorry, crüt. Will bow out of thread...

― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, May 21, 2013 5:59 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no don't go! I've been kind of on edge lately. sorry for lashing out.

NO FUCK THAT GUY CRUT I GOT YR BACK PUNKS JUMP UP TO GET BEAT DOWN

too mellowed out by this Eno-esque Daft Punk track

if it was an air track you wouldn't be mellowed out

and your aunt would have a penis

That was a song by Tool, yeah?

stream of the giorgio dj set/story time mentioned upthread

http://www.rbmaradio.com/shows/giorgio-moroder-live-at-deep-space

Another review: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2013/05/daft-punk-random-access-memories.html

that reads like a re-write of pfork's old lukewarm review of discovery, similar critiques, even the decimal point score is about the same

the spoken word Moroder track reminded me of that Belle and Sebastian b-side where the guy talks about meeting Elvis.

I find it offputting when reviews start with namechecking other recent reviews of the same record tbh, hard to get past that.

Statements like these:

Daft Punk fans are famously quick to get mad at Justice or Skrillex for burdening their fans with rock dreams, positioned as a direct affront to dance culture’s anonymity.

(they are?) are also merely backed up by other reviews. I mean, you can write about the new record without referring to Skrillex. Kinda NAGL.

The only thing pissing me off about this record now is the vocoders (I know that sounds ridiculous).

That Paste review is so awful. It's a review that supposes that everyone reading will have heard RAM a few times and how many times do you want to mention Skrillex

And I have just spotted traces of a Saint-Saëns influence in Motherboard. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/music_box/2013/05/daft_punk_s_random_access_memories_reviewed.html

This album is probably the best album. Feel like I should've gotten that bonus track for $40, though.