DAFT PUNK: RAMDOM ACCESS MEMORIES

[Soiree]

http://pitchfork.com/features/cover-sto ... daft-punk/

love the new Pitchfork interactive media!

[esfandyar]

the album is extremely catchy. some good tunes in there.

not looking forward to hearing this album everywhere for the next coming months..

[Soulstep]

Is it on Spotify yet ?

[esfandyar]

http://www.factmag.com/2013/05/14/they- ... -memories/

“THEY HAVE OFFICIALLY GERVAISED”: THE BEST INITIAL REACTIONS TO DAFT PUNK’S RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES

We told you it sounded like Toto.

Last night, the most anticipated dance album of the year leaked – and was subsequently made available to stream for free on iTunes. Except that Daft Punk‘s Random Access Memories isn’t a dance album, at least not in the way that Discovery was, and certainly not in the way that Homework was. And although that shouldn’t be surprising – let’s face it, Daft Punk are hardly young men anymore, and as the group’s Thomas Bangalter recently pointed out, it’s about time that they made a soft rock album that everybody hated – the reaction to the album online was, on our radar at least, a largely negative one.

We’ll be posting our full review of Random Access Memories in the coming days, but for now, we thought it would be fun to collect some of our favourite initial thoughts, kneejerk reactions and exchanges from last night’s Twitter listening session – because let’s face it, that’s what May 13, 2013 turned into – from a variety of artists, writers and more. Here they are:


“This daft punk thing needs more gunshots and airhorns”
- Zomby

“Listening to RAM obv. The first track is pish.” - Jackmaster
“it’s better than the second” - Four Tet

“Daft Punk’s new album is an experiment in banality, marketing and reputation. They have officially GERVAISED.”
- DaftLimmy

Maybe lots of people are hating on RAM right now because it’s not very good … It’s not great or even god awful. Just, pish.”
- Lauren Martin, FACT

“What the hell kind of robot made this? A flat battery Fisher Price one after its robot balls had been done by a soldering iron?”
- The Quietus

“Listening to a certain new album; feel like I’m listening to classic rock for old men. Really bored. Dance music reaching its Mojo point”
- Alex Macpherson, FACT

“Obviously pretty late on commenting but the new Daft Punk record is absolutely stunning… Looking forward to hearing it in its full quality next week”
- Skream

“Daft Punk realized they were dinosaurs w/ Human After All, so they released a dinosaur album and fooled us all into believing it could be anything else.”
- Andrew Ryce, Resident Advisor

“I’m glad they haven’t been swept away with today’s awful generic pop formula, instead they kept it Daft Punk.”
- Boddika

“daft punk got a hologram troutman hidden away somewhere … then werner herzog shows up or whatever”
- Zodiac

“SHARE THIS IF UR A CHILD OF THE 90S…REMEMBER WATCHING RECESS AND RUGRATS…REMEMBER DIAL-UP…REMEMBER WHEN DAFT PUNK MADE HOUSE MUSIC?”
- CFCF

“So I listened to this Daft Punk album once while browsing the web. I will now unveil my critique” — the Internet, 5/13/13″
- John Darnielle, Mountain Goats

” Daft Punk is on some next level musical mind control. #LoseYourselfToDance #Touch #Motherboard #DoinItRight #beyond #Contact FEAR MUSIC <3″
- James Ferraro

“Did Andrew Lloyd Webber produce this album or what?!?”
- L-Vis 1990

“I bet people who don’t get Steely Dan won’t get that new Daft Punk.”
- Joakim

“Can you un-pre order the Daft Punk album?”
- Dillon Francis

[Harkat]

lol Skream loves everything doesn't he.

[deadly_habit]

Shit, I'd imagine it's more a case of not burning bridges as some of these people potentially are.
There's critique and then there is just being a dick to be a dick.

[EliteLennon117]

Daft Punk = House music for people who don't like house music = Disco for people who don't like Disco.

[Pedro Sánchez]

Regardless of hype they still make records that shit on most, production wise. Even if this album is a throwback it will still be a welcome in today's music of non specific mash up dance-hop with a drop or high brow 'this is serious acid techno house bruv'.

[SCope13]

Daft Punk = House music for people who don't like house music = Disco for people who don't like Disco.

they're the Macklemore of dance music.

[kidshuffle]

Daft Punk = House music for people who don't like house music = Disco for people who don't like Disco.

^this is pretty much spot on, and I'll go even further in saying that them + Justice are electronic music for people who don't like "electronic music". however, i wouldn't go as far as calling them macklemore....we wont give a fuck about him 5 years after his career has peaked




i'm probably gunna have more to say after i listen to the leak, i've been on the fence with daft punk for a couple years.

[deadly_habit]

Daft Punk = House music for people who don't like house music = Disco for people who don't like Disco.

Now you just need to add Funk for people who don't like Funk with the new LP.

[Shum]

Steely Dan and Fleetwood Mac all the way

This. Be it for the better or for worse, you decide. Still waiting to hear the whole album after it drops officially though.

good calls bros.

[3rdeye]

heard some on the radio today - horrible, horrible stuff (imho)

Homework = good
Everything Else = bad

[hugh]

Daft Punk = House music for people who don't like house music = Disco for people who don't like Disco.

they're the Macklemore of dance music.

Am I the only one that through Thrift Shop was decent?

[AxeD]

Basically everyone thought Thrift Shop was at least decent.

Definitely agree with Boddika, it's the Daft Punk sound.. If you liked them before, you definitely like
some of the tunes on this record.
It's not my thing, but I got sick of Discovery quite fast too.

[Johoosh]

Just listened to it. It is remarkably bad.

Also at some of the arselick reviews in the press. Telegraph saying its the most adventurous & exciting dance album of the past decade...

+that Moroder track: the whole monologue about "there are no rules" in electronic music & making "sounds from the future" then proceeding to make a tune with the most bland synth arpeggio & chord progression.

[wolf89]

It's kind of disappointing. I mean it sounds nice and all and there's a couple tunes I like but there's way too many bits that are cheesy in the wrong way. Especially all the vocoder stuff constantly. That shit sounds awful especially with the cheesy lyrics.

[DRTY]

not really listened to Daft Punk. But the constant presence of them online everywhere is somewhat annoying

[Soiree]

I would want to call you guys ILLiterate, but there's nothing sick about you.

[Pedro Sánchez]

After listening to the stream, it is kind of an average sounding 70's disco record and it misses the charm of their previous stuff, even the mix is rather soft...kind of wish I hadn't pre-ordered it.