Disco. Very?
These chaps have a new album on the way
Unbelievably it's been 4 years since the last one. 4 years! Jeezus. I'm sure I should have been looking forward to this more than I have been. I mean I must own everything they've released or remixed over the years, and i loved. LOVED. Discovery. Somewhere however, the love has gone. In a way Discovery's catchiness was its undoing. Whereas a Boards of Canada album, for example, will reveal something new to you on every listen, Discovery wore its heart on its sleeve so clearly that after listening to nothing else for three weeks I had no desire to ever hear it again. If you can reproduce every note of the album in your head there's not a great deal of point in actually putting the CD on.
'Human After All', for that is the name of the album, is a bit of a mixed bag. I'm certainly liking it more each time I hear it - which is definitely a good sign - however there are some tracks I really don't like. 'Technologic' is, bizarrely, a blatant rip off of the FatBoy Slim abomination 'Slash Dot Dash Dot Slash Shit Crap Delete'. I mean it's clearly far better than that, but anything that brings back horrific flashbacks of a shit record is very hard to enjoy. There is good news though. 'Robot Rock' (of course!), which I believe will be the first single, is great... if not dissimilar to 'Aerodynamic'. 'Television Rules the Nation' has got a killer computerised heavy metal riff, and 'The Brainwasher' will i'm sure cause dancefloor devastation wherever it's played. Overall though i've got to say that this is a bit of a disappointment. Maybe i'm being a bit harsh, and certainly it's not really fair comparing Daft Punk with Boards of Canada, however I can't help but feel that the world has changed a lot in the last 4 years... and Daft Punk haven't.
p.s. those dolls are still fucking cool though
Daft Punk - The Brainwasher
Unbelievably it's been 4 years since the last one. 4 years! Jeezus. I'm sure I should have been looking forward to this more than I have been. I mean I must own everything they've released or remixed over the years, and i loved. LOVED. Discovery. Somewhere however, the love has gone. In a way Discovery's catchiness was its undoing. Whereas a Boards of Canada album, for example, will reveal something new to you on every listen, Discovery wore its heart on its sleeve so clearly that after listening to nothing else for three weeks I had no desire to ever hear it again. If you can reproduce every note of the album in your head there's not a great deal of point in actually putting the CD on.
'Human After All', for that is the name of the album, is a bit of a mixed bag. I'm certainly liking it more each time I hear it - which is definitely a good sign - however there are some tracks I really don't like. 'Technologic' is, bizarrely, a blatant rip off of the FatBoy Slim abomination 'Slash Dot Dash Dot Slash Shit Crap Delete'. I mean it's clearly far better than that, but anything that brings back horrific flashbacks of a shit record is very hard to enjoy. There is good news though. 'Robot Rock' (of course!), which I believe will be the first single, is great... if not dissimilar to 'Aerodynamic'. 'Television Rules the Nation' has got a killer computerised heavy metal riff, and 'The Brainwasher' will i'm sure cause dancefloor devastation wherever it's played. Overall though i've got to say that this is a bit of a disappointment. Maybe i'm being a bit harsh, and certainly it's not really fair comparing Daft Punk with Boards of Canada, however I can't help but feel that the world has changed a lot in the last 4 years... and Daft Punk haven't.
p.s. those dolls are still fucking cool though
Daft Punk - The Brainwasher
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