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How's the sleeve/artwork? Is it as great as we've seen in the spaceship video? Is there a lyric sheet?

I like that the album basically has a J.R. Robinson half and an Omar Hakim half

How's the sleeve/artwork? Is it as great as we've seen in the spaceship video? Is there a lyric sheet?

― Random ASMR Memories (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, May 22, 2013 1:22 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No sleeve artwork. There's a pretty cool 12" booklet with credits and mock blueprints of the 2 helmets

and lyrics in the booklet

Awes <3

xp

Double awes! <<33

With the CD there's a lyrics booklet with the (disappointingly small) two helmet blueprints and the upside down glasd/transparent synth picture. CD itself is purely the basic Columbia text only layout.

Leaving all kinds of options open for deluxe upgrades, imho.

upside down glass/transparent synth picture is in center of vinyl gatefold

Any runout groove messages? (Or whatever they're called, you know, the "Porky Prime Cut" things)

I'd have to check tonight. I definitely noticed writing but just assumed a signature and number.

Cool, thanks :-)

Side D: IF LOVE IS THE ANSWER YOU'RE HOME

http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/773372882.jpg

omg strahan

this is the point where I formally retract my "they aren't megafamous" argument because they clearly are, now

need a gif

lol from a 0.5 star (out of 5) user review on RYM (I know, I know, but this made me laugh):

"Get Lucky" is the only good song on the whole album. I am a Panda Bear addict,

xpost: My copy of the CD has a sticker which says "FEAT. GET LUCKY & LOSE YOURSELF TO DANCE". Obviously "Get Lucky" is the advance single, but does anyone know why LYTD is mentioned? Second single?

no, 'lose yourself to dance' is the name of my dog

Been revisitng Touch today...nearly fully come round to it now...the vaguely-honky tonk breakdown puts me in mind of the end of Jim O Rourke's 'Happy Trails'. Which is obviously a very very good thing indeed*.

*weirdly, I heard that song playing in a nice restaurant in the post part of the North Norfolk coast at Christmas. Very weird moment. I was loving it; my family, not being into JOR didn't quite get why I was so excited.

would have thought a panda bear fan would've found something else to like amongst the other tracks tbh

Xxxpost: I posted a link somewhere upthread in which they confirm lose yourself as the second single and instant crush as the third one.

Cheers Moka, that makes sense now.

i keep going back to "Fragments of Time"

C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON C'MON

this is the point where I formally retract my "they aren't megafamous" argument because they clearly are, now

clearly were already. stand down.

Mixing vocoders and actual vocals is such an effective trick, but I can't really think of it having been done before.

I assume you mean both layered on top of each other.

points deducted for not using the right number of C'MONs in the phrase, LBI.

Merde, Merdeyeuz ;-)

Ωe're up all n▒ght t♪ ge♠ Ł♫♡☀☺

hey i like lil' daft punk! never heard this single. like the new wave track too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAl3HQLFESA

15 on billboard, rubbing elbows with drake and fall out boy

It's been in the top 20, but no higher than #14, for the past month. I'll be very curious to see how it does next week, though. Not only will it benefit from digital sales of the album, it was apparently only *officially* released to radio this week.

#10 this week

Listening way too much to RAM the past week, it also made me revisit (yet again) Homework and Discovery. I love how a new album can put previous albums in a new light; in that a new album blows you away, redefines the current status of the band, yet also lengthens a bands career. With every new album the history of the band and their music becomes more defined, somehow. The career and discography as an always unfinished but ever redefined work.

Having said that: Discovery will never be topped, for me, I am fairly certain of that. We've probably done a poll on what's the best DP album before?

it was apparently only *officially* released to radio this week.

this explains why the version I kept hearing on the radio sounded like a 128kbps mp3!!!

Maybe the new album, which I adore, makes me want to shout out even more that 'Digital Love' is probably still the best pop song ever written.

Amongst all the other hundreds of best ever pop songs, but y'know

It seemed conceptually on-point to buy this on vinyl, so I did. It somehow makes sense as a four-sided piece, with "Lose Yourself To Dance" at the end of Side 2 feeling pivotal, as a lead-in to the rebirth that takes place on Side 3.

It's pressed very quietly, though. I almost had to double the usual volume setting.

"We’re working on some mixes ourselves,” Thomas Bangalter says. "So, yes, there will probably be Daft Punk mixes of Daft Punk. Usually, we never mix ourselves, that’s something we feel we’re interested in doing this time."

^_^

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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BK73Wf0CQAAeeHj.jpg:medium

what the

weird

Colombia sponsors Lotus apparently.

that's awesome

never encountered the word "nerdgasm" before reading this:

http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/should-we-expect-a-daft-punk-themed-lotus-this-weekend-509382531

Me neither

Nerdgasm, about 722,000 results (0.18 seconds)

come on, for real? how is that possible? look where you are.