Daft Punk - Discovery
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Free Music Review: The History of Popular Music circa 1970-2000 is Magnified and felt within this album every Listen. Past,present,future classic.
Hit: 5 Stars
There is something to be said about the detail and perfection that went into producing this album. Whether it be the samples or the layering or the hooks and song structure reminisent of previous classic albums from past Generations, Daft Punk needn't make an album this perfect again...unless they want to. I don't doubt they couldn't but why?
There's a reason we haven't had a New Full-fledged album treating from them since Human After All...they obviously are still drawing in their ever growing fans through the distillment and exposure to their past 3 albums and only albums to date. I think they are going to either blow us away or open us to a new retracing like they have with their newfound filmmaking mastery. If you haven't seen ELECTROMA, by all means do, it is essential for all fans and anyone born in the Gen X/Y bracket (for me, Mid 80's)...I totally see why now they are masters of anything they grace.
They have made absolute masterpieces with complex simplicity and far-reaching pop culture statement. Reveiewing their career at this point, I believe they have always been following the truest Artist's path, and through Dance Music to Avant-Garde Film Making, they are excelling and reaching new artistic levels.
All of the songs here in Discovery are classics, of course!
And since we are reviewing let's bring it up to date...
as we've noticed since their debut, the Daft trend of album releasing...
Homework (March 1997)
Discovery (March 2001)
Human After All (March 2005)
A four year in between pattern had assumed the format, but as for this year, 2009, we have yet to see what will happen in Daft Punk history...
For now we know the Concerts are Legend, seen by all over the World,
The Movie, internationally received, panned by many as a startling beginning of(?)...what will be the 2009 Daft Punk Odyssey...
As they would like it...patiently wait and see...
Oh yes, and one of the Members does Live in L.A. and they have indeed signed to a NEW, INDIE label and are working with an unspecified Los Angeles Management Group. So they have settled, mostly in the Southwestern United States, much like their Movie has hinted at (?)...
California should be grateful and appreciative, that we have the privilage of Daft Punk possibly making the West Coast their new workplace (will they record in the U.S.???)
Free Music Review: I Made A Nice Little "Discovery"...
Hit: 5 Stars
I like all types of music so I wasn't afraid to venture into the field of techno with "Discovery". I wasn't disappointed. The first song that drew me to Daft Punk is the Stardust song "The Music Sounds Better With You". And then I saw an extended anime video on Cartoon Network containing the first 4 "Discovery" tracks. I mean, I loved "One More Time", but those videos made me wanna run out and get the album. I never heard or owned "Homework", so I can't make value judgements. Maybe that's a good thing, cuz this album made a fan outta me. Of course it's a throw-back to the 80's ("Short Circuit") and the 70's ("High Life") [two annoying tracks that are still pretty good], but you have to admit that this album is so varied, that you can't a slap a category on it if you tried. It may be cheesy, but it's infectious. You have your dance numbers and even some slow ones ("Nightvision" is short, but trancy. I wish they would've extended it and added a beat to it). My top 5 are "One More Time" (the horns and Romanthony's "ah!" got me), "H.B.F.S." (this is a funky, robotic number), "Crescendolls" (a party number with the clichéd "Hey!"), "Superheroes" (a valiant comic book-esque number where they could've restrained overusing the sample!), and "Voyager" (My favorite track. It's dark, yet dancy. I still think it could've used a bridge.). An honarable mention to "Something About You" (the song that Jamiroquai never made) and "Face To Face" (the song that the 80's wished they could call their own). The only complaints I have is the repetitiveness, the fact that "One More Time" and "Digital Love" evoke pointless commercials in my head (Think "Victoria's Secret" & "The Gap"!), and the last track "Too Long" is, well... TOO LONG! It should've been 4:30 rather than 10:00. That would've been perfect because it still is a rather catchy song. Oh, yah, and that vocal sample in "High Life". They could've did without that. WAIT, I'm not done complaining... "Veridis Quo" could've been shorter and used more instruments. Okay, I'm done. All in all, you'll either like or loathe these guys. They may be weird, but they keep it fresh (for a couple of French guys).Free Music Review: Daft Punk is better than ever.
Hit: 5 Stars
Recently I got the new Daft Punk cd called "Discovery". If you haven't heard of Daft Punk, then you probably aren't familiar with electronica. Anyway, back in the olden times in 1997, I was staying up at 2:00A.M. for various reasons *cough*crack*cough* and I watched mtv, like anyother crack addi*err* music addict, yeah, that's it!i saw this music video called "Around The World" and I was astonished. I mean, wow. It's basically a uniform, synchonized disco-dance music video, with people in costumes (skeliton suits, robot suits, swim suits?) and it was very, VERY odd. I thought I was dead, I really did. I remember in the music video, it had no vocals, and just daft punk's song, Around The World. I swear it was something to freak all over.
In 7th grade, I mentioned the music video to my friend logan. He said he saw the same music video, and it was by a band called "Daft Punk". He said he had the music video on a tape at his house, but he never found it. In 8th grade, pretty recently, he or I brought up the subject again. Now that i had the skills, knowledge, and power, i downloaded the music video from Morpheus. It was freaking AWESOME. I swear to goodness, it r0x0r3d. So then I downloaded the song in mp3 format. That was cool. I got pretty interested in their music style and their coolness.
Recently, Daft Punk Released a new album, Discovery. I wasn't too terribly interested, and the months passed.
On Cartoon Network recently, they aired 4 daft punk music videos for their new album (all animated, of course). The music impressed me so much, I went to Hastings the next day and bought the album.
The packaging of the album is very simple with a "Daft Punk" logo, if you will, that is metallic with a splash of rainbow. The back is also simple, and it has a black background with white text giving all of the names of the tracks on the cd. If you open up the case, you will find a cd booklet with lyrics to some of their songs, a photo of the two recording music on a piano, and the times of each track. Then behind the cd itself, is a "Daft Club" card that has a 16-digit pin to get into their members only web site so you can download unrealsed, remixed, and uncut tracks from their new album, and their old album, Homework. All and all, I felt this album was one of the best albums I have ever purchased.
Free Music Review: I defend Daft Punk on behalf of disco purists.
Hit: 5 Stars
I will attempt to set the record straight here. I bought Homework, I had a listen of DISCOvery (as I emphasize on the first five letters), so now let's compare. In every sense of the word 'innovation', most of the singles in Homework play out like repetitive 4-by-4 clubland trance that wants to induce an immersive feel in listeners, therefore the album is a production of 'progressive disco'. To me when Homework came out, it was cutting-edge new stuff in the league of Dmitri From Paris. On the contrary, DISCOvery is like an archeology exercise in re-creating the exact 70s and early 80s retro and happy 'flower power' feel of disco shared commonly among...can you guess the artistes/songs? Village People, MARRS, ABBA, Bee Gees and even the Hawaii-5-0 theme. Do I sound ridiculous? But this is my overall impression. Check out the prominence of supporting instruments like cymbals, trumpets and the revered rock guitar and filter effects. The big discovery in this album is that the disco recorded herein is in its most orthodox form, harking back to the days of Saturday Night Fever and white-man disco. I can understand that some listeners are taken aback by what sounds so stupidly kitsch and backward, warning others not to give it another chance. In this case, they are missing the whole point. After all, DISCOvery is never meant to be one of those works 'that look back into the past in order to bring forward the future' that kinda nonsense, i.e. Homework, Amon Tobin's Permutations, Dmitri's Sacred Bleu, etc. The music is ALREADY 25-yrs-old. Only the lyrics and music composition are new, that's all. Maybe Daft Punk has not done enough to convince listeners that they are not following after Eiffel 65 (ha!). Then again, I cannot think of another album in recent years that sounds like all-so-retro DISCOvery (no no, not even Bob Sinclar or the Cleptomaniacs, maybe A Night In The Playboy Mansion?). I don't think it's easy for Steven Spielberg to film a B&W movie, so do you think it's easy for Daft Punk to record a thing like this all over again? Same generational analogy. DISCOvery is really veryDISCO, maybe too disco for some to stomach, but it is essentially a history textbook, a time machine. Read it.Free Music Review: My Favorite Album.
Hit: 5 Stars
I bought Daft Punk's "Discovery" when I was an idiotic 7th grader who knew next to nothing about music. Keep in mind that this was in 2001, back when nü-metal bands like Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park were considered gods by everyone around me. I saw the video for their hit song "One More Time" on Toonami, and being the anime dweeb that I am, ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT. Soon afterwards, I went and bought the album, and found out that almost every track was BEYOND stellar.
When you compare this to their first album, "Homework", it hardly seems like the same people are responsible for it. Homework was little more than a series of old-school rap beats with electronic melodies and the occasional vocoder thrown over them. Discovery is far more euro-pop influenced than it's predecessor, meaning there's alot more variety. There are also more tracks with vocals, and FAR less repetition, which really bogged down some parts of their previous album.
Aside from One More Time, "Digital Love", "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" "Superheroes" and "Something About Us" in particular, are stunning: all of which either contain some amazing keyboard solos, excellent use of vocoders, or both. I think Daft Punk has a very Robert Smith-ish quality to them in terms of lyrics, in how they can both make cliche love lyrics sound fresh, important, and even vital! Also worth mentioning is "Face To Face", which sounds like a straight-out-of-1986 new wave song minus the fakeness.
It's not perfect though: Two of the tracks ("High Life", "Too Long") are simply put...duds. Too Long wouldn't be so bad if it didn't live up to it's name. If you're gonna make a song last for 10 minutes, choose a stronger track. Simple as that.
2 tracks, however, should NOT deter you from buying this record. The immense strength of the other 12 tracks more than makes up for it. Listen to it, and get sucked into it's gleaming, interstellar, futuristic world.
It's nice to know that later in my life, I'll be able to put this glorious piece of nostalgia on and relive 2001 all over again. It'll do the same for you.