Genres: House, Electronic, Dance
Daft Punk, the French duo of producers/musicians, return to add some nostalgia for your ears. In this outing Daft Punk have looked to recreate many of the sounds of the 1970's, 80's & 90's for today and on the whole their synthesis works. This is light and sweet music meant for times of extroversion.
Daft Punk so supply a lot of the vocals on the record with the help of a vocoder to make them sound like robots but they rely heavily on guest vocalists to lift the songs away from sounding cold and inhuman. These guest vocalists provide a lot of the best moments. Pharrell Williams gets the best straight dance numbers with two songs 'Lose Yourself to Dance' and 'Get Lucky' where the idea must have been to recapture the vibe of Michael Jackson's Off the Wall album because the mix of nostalgia and excitement is the same. Paul Williams comes in to do a kind of singer/songwriter mini-rock-opera that lasts for over eight minutes and sounds like something off a Jim Henson production. It does have the telltale gurgle of Daft Punk's synthesisers and then vocoder vocals leading the close to the song but they are in the background for the first four minutes. Panda Bear lends some chant-like vocals to accentuate the song 'Do'in It Right'. Julian Casablanca of The Strokes for some reason has his vocals through a vocoder but his song 'Instant Crush' is enjoyable, it sounds like Daft Punk's work from their 2001 album Discovery. I think the only misstep is 'Fragments of Time' with Todd Edwards as it just sounds too much like Jamiroquai to sound distinctive.
The best moment on the album is the mostly instrumental track 'Giorgio by Moroder' which has Giogio Moroder talking about getting started in music and his approach with electronic music. Moroder says that he wanted to do an album with sounds from the 50's, 60's, 70's and the sound of the future and this is what led him to the synthesiser. The music behind this little snippet of dialogue sounds exactly like Moroder's work on the Midnight Express soundtrack and other things. This idea of synthesis of different sounds from different decades is the basic idea of the album.
RATING: 4/5
Here is the song 'Get Lucky'
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