![]() Dre even gets a shoutout in the later track “Teachers”) the spacey swagger of Parliament-Funkadelic and Chic threaded throughout. To its credit, Homework remains an alluring hodgepodge, and our first taste of Daft’s eclecticism: the disco-tech bassline and burrowing hook of “Around the World” the West Coast hip-hop whirring of “Da Funk” (Dr. The group’s initial plan was to rollout a handful of free-standing singles, but soon there were too many quality tracks not to make an album. And maybe that’s for the best Homework isn’t exactly cohesive, nor was it truly meant to be. Over time, this list’s Record Of Honor has become lauded moreso for its legacy - as pop’s first password to the French-house hard drive - than for the sum of its hypnotic parts. But Tron’s director Joseph Kosinski was correct to tap Daft Punk to create this heroic score. Sure, listening to the hour-long instrumental LP without the context of the film can be a little daunting. Tidbits are stolen from the Human After All and Discovery sounds, but Legacy’s sweeping, ambient aesthetic is largely unrecognizable from the group’s other works. ![]() The fearless swells in “Arena” and “Rinzler” are lush, and deeply effective bridges between DP’s electronic realm and the orchestral fields they deftly harvested for this project (an 85-piece orchestra was employed to record the album). De Homem-Christo and Bangalter explored their inner maestros and composed a wholly imagined and thematically striking soundscape to back an otherwise lukewarm film reboot. Human is the lone Daft Punk album to feel reactionary to the band’s own success, and even if it did produce a successful inverse to Discovery, it was as impersonal as the group has ever been.Ī Disney soundtrack is surely the square peg in this ranking, but Tron: Legacy is no slouching, sappy film score. Typically, Daft is a masterful employer of repetition, but the echoing hooks to “Steam Machine” and “Television” border on monotony, and there just isn’t enough innovation to counteract the dullness. While themes of dark, tech-fearing paranoia were fresh to the group - and employed purposefully, to contrast the buoyancy of Discovery - Human’s themes largely feel recycled the tech-jargon labyrinth “Technologic,” piggybacks off the more memorable precursor “Harder Better Faster Stronger,” and while plenty catchy in its thick guitar leads, the lead single “Robot Rock” is too on-the-nose for a band famous for its mechanized appearance. If there is a valley, or caricature album in Daft’s catalog, it’s Human, the group’s most melodically austere and numbing record. Featuring hit single, 'Get Lucky', this album is already considered a defining release of the 2010s pop/electronic landscape.So as news broke today that Daft Punk would be performing with The Weeknd at the Grammys, we cheer our favorite helmeted robot-rockers with an anniversary album ranking, spanning their six most essential records. ![]() ![]() Spanning an impressive selection of genres from disco, to prog rock and pop, the album also boasts a serious list of chart-topping collaborators - from Nile Rodgers, to Pharrell Williams, to Giorgio Moroder. For this seismic album, the band developed and enriched the minimalist production style typical of their previous releases though collaborating with session musicians performing live instrumentation, limiting the use of electronic instruments to simple drum machines, a custom-built modular synthesiser, and their signature vintage vocoders. This release pays tribute to late 1970s and early 1980s American music, particularly the sounds hailing from Los Angeles at the time. The fourth and final studio album from the now disbanded French electronic duo, Daft Punk, Random Access Memory gets a re-release on Sony complete with an exclusive poster and 16-page booklet. ![]()
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