Daft Punk

[Brainiac 10,597]

heard news from an insider that 30 second snippets of each song will be on itunes end of this week or start of next week  hopefully its true!

 

please please please please let this be true!!

[Carles 168]

please please please please let this be true!!

 

it sounds like it could be because by then the album would be around about 12 or 11 days away :nooo:

[glockenpop 1]

Not going to listen to any of these snippets when they come out. :O

[Queen Gloria 3,434]

Yeah, I almost don't want to listen to the snippets, I want to experience the whole album in order. Spoilers though, someone said this is in fact a real clip of "Lose Yourself To Dance", the other Nile Rodgers/Pharrell Williams song on the album. I'm not sure if it is but if so, it sounds good from the small looped piece that it is. 

 

[MelbHawker 6,583]

heard news from an insider that 30 second snippets of each song will be on itunes end of this week or start of next week  hopefully its true!

 

[Jase 13,043]

Digital Spy on the album: "The result is a truly bold and daring record that is thrilling, mind-blowing and, at times, a touch frustrating. But then again, changing the face of music wasn't going to come without its challenges. Five stars."

[Forrest Gump 1]

Digital Spy on the album: "The result is a truly bold and daring record that is thrilling, mind-blowing and, at times, a touch frustrating. But then again, changing the face of music wasn't going to come without its challenges. Five stars."

this might be their most acclaimed album ever

[Carles 168]

this might be their most acclaimed album ever

 

apparently david guetta and avicii is already working with nile rodgers 

 

http://instagram.com/p/YuOf7ljcsh/

Edited May 1, 2013 by Daft

[Carles 168]

Gigwise has reviewed the album track by track and their hype is killing me :nooo:

http://www.gigwise.com/photos/81296/3/first-review-daft-punk---random-access-memories

 

'Give Life Back to Music' (featuring Nile Rodgers)

Opening with those oh-so-familiar vocodered vocals, Daft Punk stamp their distinct mark on the new album, which has become as known for its collaborators as it has the robots themselves. Of course, with Nile Rogers on the track, the spotlight here is shared, with Daft Punk's 'music of your life' lyrics blending seemlessly with big disco guitar licks. 'Give Life Back To Music' follows the live feel of No.1 single 'Get Lucky', and packs a massive middle eight (not dissimiliar to some of the sounds heard on Justice's Civilization album) before dropping into a huge intstrumental finale, the sort only Daft Punk could pull off without sounding self indulgent. A big start to a big album.

 

 

'The Game of Love'

While Daft Punk are remembered for big dance hits, softer tracks such as 'Something About Us' and 'Make Love' have also made their marks on previous albums, and here the tempo drops after the disco assault of the opening track. A melancholy, robotic ballad with touches of Tina Turner's 'I Can't Stand The Rain' in the vocodered 'Me, I just want you to stay' hook, seemlessly blended with a live, 70s ****-esque production. Both subtle and stunning.

'Giorgio by Moroder' (featuring Giorgio Moroder)

And here is where the album gets truly epic. Previous Daft Punk albums have been adored by fans - but at times have raised eyebrows with the quantity of samples used. Random Access Memories is a sample free album, and 'Giorgio By Moroder' is the most intricate and intelligent track of Daft Punk's career. Built upon a spoken word narrative by the iconic seventies producer, the track is 50% documentary, 50% beautiful disco track.

As Moroder discusses the evolution of his career, the production changes accordingly - and when he begins to talk about his love for the synthesizer, the beat flips to an eighties-influenced synth sound. After a keyboard breakdown, the seventies and eighties sounds collide before Moroder returns for a spoken word outro, and just when you think things can't get any bigger? Oh yeah - there's a massive orchestra involved as well. 'EPIC' DOESN'T EVEN COME CLOSE. One of the album's many standouts.

'Within' (featuring Chilly Gonzales)

 

Random Access Memories is a mix of the massive and the mournful, and here, the tempo drops again. Strictly seventies sounding, 'Within' is reminiscent of a slightly glum cocktail party (Abigail's Party perhaps?) and despite sounding like a slightly less s-x-obsessed Chromeo in places, is slightly underwhelming. But perhaps that is simply due to the two tracks it is unfortunate to be sandwiched between...

 

'Instant Crush' (featuring Julian Casablancas)

 

If Daft Punk need a second single from the album, they need look no further than this. Their collaboration with Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas screams mainstream from the sense of classic Americana in the guitar opening to the heavily processed vocals. Taking elements of seventies rock sounds rather than the disco scene, Daft Punk work squealing guitars into the track - the likes of which would sound awful on a modern day rock song, but instead sound glorious here. A very big song indeed.

'Lose Yourself to Dance' (featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers)

 

One of two tracks with both Pharrell and Nile Rogers, 'Lose Yourself To Dance' slightly lacks the edge of 'Get Lucky', but when being pitted against one of the biggest hits of 2013, what could compare? More soulful than Daft Punk's chart topping hit, mixing laid back guitar licks and heavy handclaps. 'Lose Yourself To Dance' does stand out as fully representative of why Random Access Memories is so unlike any other dance album released in 2013 - or any other dance album in the past decade. The album is warm and inclusive, and offers an open invitation to any listener, Daft Punk fans new and old, to a party we all want to attend.

Listen to a 15-second snippet of 'Lose Yourself To Dance' below

 

'Touch' (featuring Paul Williams)

 

Perhaps the album's most ridiculous moment - and also one of the best. Opening with vintage computerised beats, the like of which you might expect to have heard in an old Dr Who episode, producer Paul Williams delivers a David Bowie-esque vocal, initially sounding like a nightmare-ish robot nightmare.

And then things get really crazy.

As if the electronic production and string section wasn't enough, by the time the choir come into play with their 'Hold on / If Love is the answer' hook, the listener realises there is no way to predict where this one is going, or where it will end. Insanely good.

'Get Lucky' (featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers)

 

Very brilliant indeed.

Listen to 'Get Lucky' below

 

 

'Beyond'

A disappointing moment on an otherwise excellent album - largely due to the spectacular opening, which Daft Punk fail to sustain. Beginning like the duo's take on Ride Of The Valkyries, 'Beyond' drops into more melancholy vocodered funk, which, despite the Michael Jackson, 'Beat It' era production style, packs less of a punch than much of RAM.

'Motherhood'

 

Remember 'Verdis Quo' from Daft Punk's 'Discovery' album? Instrumental track 'Motherhood' sounds very much like a live version of that - and very lovely it is indeed. The track builds to a moderately epic crescendo, and while it pales in comparison to some of the other tracks on the album, is still a solid album moment.

 

'Fragments of Time' (featuring Todd Edwards)

 

A hint of lounge jazz comes into play here, on a classy dance track for grown ups. One of the ways Daft Punk succeed with this album is by managing to satisfy their huge, hungry audience, but at no point spoiling things by attempting to sound too young or bending to modern dance expectations. Kitsch, but on the right side of cheesy, the track introduces country and western twangs before picking up pace for a big breakdown and vocodered guitar solo. By the time it reaches its close, 'Fragments Of Time' becomes one of the album's BIG songs - and a potential future single.

'Doin’ It Right' (featuring Panda Bear)

 

While many tracks on Random Access Memories grow from subtle moments to epic crescendos, 'Doin It Right' does not - and neither does it need to. Ditching the mind-blowing production operatics, Daft Punk take centre stage here with the 'everybody will be dancing and we're feeling it right / everybody will be dancing till they're doing it right' chorus. Panda Bear's vocal contributions are outstanding, as he more than holds his own alongside the album's big names, such as Julian Casablancas and Pharrell Williams.

 

'Contact' (featuring DJ Falcon)

 

And here is where things really go crazy. It is surprising that considering how much work went into creating that seventies disco warmth, one of the standout tracks sounds the least organic. Opening with a phone call describing a UFO sighting in the US, this is the album's big, noisy moment - and should Daft Punk tour in 2013, this will raise the roof when performed at gigs. Live drums blend with stunning electronic waves on a mind blowing finale unlike anything that came before it on the previous 12 tracks.

Edited May 1, 2013 by Daft

[Forrest Gump 1]

apparently david guetta and avicii is already working with nile rodgers 

 

http://instagram.com/p/YuOf7ljcsh/

daft punk staying innovative

[The Stranger 4]

:excited2:

[phoenix47 0]

Yeah, I almost don't want to listen to the snippets, I want to experience the whole album in order. Spoilers though, someone said this is in fact a real clip of "Lose Yourself To Dance", the other Nile Rodgers/Pharrell Williams song on the album. I'm not sure if it is but if so, it sounds good from the small looped piece that it is. 

 

 

Apparentaly reviewers confirmed it's real, and it's sounds really good. I might prefer this to Get Lucky

[Brainiac 10,597]

Gigwise has reviewed the album track by track and their hype is killing me :nooo:

http://www.gigwise.com/photos/81296/3/first-review-daft-punk---random-access-memories

 

'Give Life Back to Music' (featuring Nile Rodgers)

Opening with those oh-so-familiar vocodered vocals, Daft Punk stamp their distinct mark on the new album, which has become as known for its collaborators as it has the robots themselves. Of course, with Nile Rogers on the track, the spotlight here is shared, with Daft Punk's 'music of your life' lyrics blending seemlessly with big disco guitar licks. 'Give Life Back To Music' follows the live feel of No.1 single 'Get Lucky', and packs a massive middle eight (not dissimiliar to some of the sounds heard on Justice's Civilization album) before dropping into a huge intstrumental finale, the sort only Daft Punk could pull off without sounding self indulgent. A big start to a big album.

 

 

'The Game of Love'

While Daft Punk are remembered for big dance hits, softer tracks such as 'Something About Us' and 'Make Love' have also made their marks on previous albums, and here the tempo drops after the disco assault of the opening track. A melancholy, robotic ballad with touches of Tina Turner's 'I Can't Stand The Rain' in the vocodered 'Me, I just want you to stay' hook, seemlessly blended with a live, 70s ****-esque production. Both subtle and stunning.

'Giorgio by Moroder' (featuring Giorgio Moroder)

And here is where the album gets truly epic. Previous Daft Punk albums have been adored by fans - but at times have raised eyebrows with the quantity of samples used. Random Access Memories is a sample free album, and 'Giorgio By Moroder' is the most intricate and intelligent track of Daft Punk's career. Built upon a spoken word narrative by the iconic seventies producer, the track is 50% documentary, 50% beautiful disco track.

As Moroder discusses the evolution of his career, the production changes accordingly - and when he begins to talk about his love for the synthesizer, the beat flips to an eighties-influenced synth sound. After a keyboard breakdown, the seventies and eighties sounds collide before Moroder returns for a spoken word outro, and just when you think things can't get any bigger? Oh yeah - there's a massive orchestra involved as well. 'EPIC' DOESN'T EVEN COME CLOSE. One of the album's many standouts.

'Within' (featuring Chilly Gonzales)

 

Random Access Memories is a mix of the massive and the mournful, and here, the tempo drops again. Strictly seventies sounding, 'Within' is reminiscent of a slightly glum cocktail party (Abigail's Party perhaps?) and despite sounding like a slightly less s-x-obsessed Chromeo in places, is slightly underwhelming. But perhaps that is simply due to the two tracks it is unfortunate to be sandwiched between...

 

'Instant Crush' (featuring Julian Casablancas)

 

If Daft Punk need a second single from the album, they need look no further than this. Their collaboration with Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas screams mainstream from the sense of classic Americana in the guitar opening to the heavily processed vocals. Taking elements of seventies rock sounds rather than the disco scene, Daft Punk work squealing guitars into the track - the likes of which would sound awful on a modern day rock song, but instead sound glorious here. A very big song indeed.

'Lose Yourself to Dance' (featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers)

 

One of two tracks with both Pharrell and Nile Rogers, 'Lose Yourself To Dance' slightly lacks the edge of 'Get Lucky', but when being pitted against one of the biggest hits of 2013, what could compare? More soulful than Daft Punk's chart topping hit, mixing laid back guitar licks and heavy handclaps. 'Lose Yourself To Dance' does stand out as fully representative of why Random Access Memories is so unlike any other dance album released in 2013 - or any other dance album in the past decade. The album is warm and inclusive, and offers an open invitation to any listener, Daft Punk fans new and old, to a party we all want to attend.

Listen to a 15-second snippet of 'Lose Yourself To Dance' below

 

'Touch' (featuring Paul Williams)

 

Perhaps the album's most ridiculous moment - and also one of the best. Opening with vintage computerised beats, the like of which you might expect to have heard in an old Dr Who episode, producer Paul Williams delivers a David Bowie-esque vocal, initially sounding like a nightmare-ish robot nightmare.

And then things get really crazy.

As if the electronic production and string section wasn't enough, by the time the choir come into play with their 'Hold on / If Love is the answer' hook, the listener realises there is no way to predict where this one is going, or where it will end. Insanely good.

'Get Lucky' (featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers)

 

Very brilliant indeed.

Listen to 'Get Lucky' below

 

 

'Beyond'

A disappointing moment on an otherwise excellent album - largely due to the spectacular opening, which Daft Punk fail to sustain. Beginning like the duo's take on Ride Of The Valkyries, 'Beyond' drops into more melancholy vocodered funk, which, despite the Michael Jackson, 'Beat It' era production style, packs less of a punch than much of RAM.

'Motherhood'

 

Remember 'Verdis Quo' from Daft Punk's 'Discovery' album? Instrumental track 'Motherhood' sounds very much like a live version of that - and very lovely it is indeed. The track builds to a moderately epic crescendo, and while it pales in comparison to some of the other tracks on the album, is still a solid album moment.

 

'Fragments of Time' (featuring Todd Edwards)

 

A hint of lounge jazz comes into play here, on a classy dance track for grown ups. One of the ways Daft Punk succeed with this album is by managing to satisfy their huge, hungry audience, but at no point spoiling things by attempting to sound too young or bending to modern dance expectations. Kitsch, but on the right side of cheesy, the track introduces country and western twangs before picking up pace for a big breakdown and vocodered guitar solo. By the time it reaches its close, 'Fragments Of Time' becomes one of the album's BIG songs - and a potential future single.

'Doin’ It Right' (featuring Panda Bear)

 

While many tracks on Random Access Memories grow from subtle moments to epic crescendos, 'Doin It Right' does not - and neither does it need to. Ditching the mind-blowing production operatics, Daft Punk take centre stage here with the 'everybody will be dancing and we're feeling it right / everybody will be dancing till they're doing it right' chorus. Panda Bear's vocal contributions are outstanding, as he more than holds his own alongside the album's big names, such as Julian Casablancas and Pharrell Williams.

 

'Contact' (featuring DJ Falcon)

 

And here is where things really go crazy. It is surprising that considering how much work went into creating that seventies disco warmth, one of the standout tracks sounds the least organic. Opening with a phone call describing a UFO sighting in the US, this is the album's big, noisy moment - and should Daft Punk tour in 2013, this will raise the roof when performed at gigs. Live drums blend with stunning electronic waves on a mind blowing finale unlike anything that came before it on the previous 12 tracks.

 

omfg the hype!!! :nooo: :nooo: :nooo:

[Jase 13,043]

 

legit just listened to the entire hour..

[The Stranger 4]

 

legit just listened to the entire hour..

Omg