Yesterday, the duo released their new album on iTunes for the early listening pleasure. As a faithful fan throughout the years and as a fan boy, I’ll try to write this review as objective as I can be. Let me just start by saying that robots have evolved and if you expected their old style, you expected wrong.

01 / Give Life Back To Music

The album opens up with this track. By the way it starts, it gives you the sense that electro, flashy, big, powerful synths that Daft Punk brought to life are gone. As they said in their interviews, this album is all about experimenting and live instruments. There’s a sense of warmth and mildness as the track progress.The track fades away slowly. Disco is back.

02 / The Game Of Love

There is a sense of “Something About Us” in this one. The story tells about a break up and heartbreaking and the vocals are hard on vocoding. As it moves on, the track goes more quiet and stops.

03 / Giorgio By Moroder

One of my favorites from this album. There was a sense of intrigue when the collab was announced and I was looking forward to it. It starts by Giorgio telling his story of his youth days and talking about the sound of the future that he wanted to make. The track is semi mellow and for some reason, the first half of it reminds me of Donna Summer‘s “I Feel Love” that Giorgio produced. As it builds up, the track gets stronger and picks up the intensity. Electro guitar starts, probably played by Thomas and the track ends with metronome type of sound slowing down. “My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls me Giorgio.”

04 / Within feat. Chilly Gonzales

Even though he’s not credited on the official album tracklist, you can clearly recognize the craft of Chilly Gonzales‘ piano playing. This is what Daft Punk tried to explain numerous times; they always wanted to connect the robot aspect with human emotions. The lyrics tell a story of confused and sort of sad robot. Amazing track, clear and simple.

05 / Instant Crush feat. Julian Casablancas

This one might be what I call “crowd favorite”. A few of my friends said that they simply adore it. The track continues the simple bassline from previous track and switches to previous-era-disco, warm synth and slightly vocoder altered voice. If you love Chromeo, you will worship this one.

06 / Lose Yourself To Dance feat. Pharrell Williams

Really catchy song. Next to “Get Lucky“, this is the second track that Pharrell and Nile worked on with the robotic duo. The bassline sticks in your memory like a bubble gum to concrete and I catched myself humming it a few times. There’s a feeling that Pharrell, for whom I have the utmost respect as a producer, wanted to bring the daftastique feeling to a wider range of audience, targeting especially the younger ones.

07 / Touch feat. Paul Williams

It starts as an alien type of weirdness, almost horror voice and just when you expect the old, slaying Daft Punk kick in the face, it switches to Paul‘s voice and everything calms down. It picks up from there and lives up as a rollercoaster of emotions and sounds. Violins, trumpets, drums and all other instruments used really spread the message.

08 / Get Lucky feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers

Guys, guys… We met the “mexican monkey“. Sigh. Just kidding. The album version differs from the radio edit. It has more space and it’s more free. You already know the sound, moving on.

09 / Beyond

Woah. The track has for sure the most powerful lyrics of all other packing this album. It’s emotional content really brings up the feelings and makes you think about stuff. For some reason, the bassline reminds me of their “Solar Sailer” from TRON soundtrack. Sweet.

10 / Motherboard

Makes you feel like you’re in a movie. Perfect for a soundtrack. Also has the TRON feeling in the back. It ends quietly, adding the bubbly water sound to the end.

11 / Fragments Of Time feat. Todd Edwards

Todd said something amazing and really interesting to me in his Collaborators video, which is that “it’s kinda ironic; two robots bring back the soul into music.” Track has an interesting, faster pace than others.

12 / Doin' It Right feat. Panda Bear

If you ever listened to Animal Collective, you’ll love this one. That’s all it needs to be said.

13 / Contact feat. DJ Falcon

This is the only track that has a sample in the entire album and it’s not of musical nature. The sample is from an astronaut seeing an unindetified object and explaining it. The story behind it is that nickname of DJ Falcon is Bob, and the astronaut explains stuff to some guy named Bob. The track is master powerful and has an amazing tempo. It’s all about the live instruments in this one. The duo ends the album phenomenally violent, like they’re trying to make a point.

To sum it up, the robots evolved. They once again brought us something fresh and new. The thing with them is that they won’t give you what you expect and they don’t repeat themselves. I like this album. It ceirtanly isn’t their best, but I like it. Also, they are scheduled to make remixes of this album (as well as million of other people), so we’ll see how it goes. This is not the end of Daft Punk. Remember, “our work is never over.”

Listen to the album here.

Soon. Soon, the wait of long seven years will be over. Daft Punk‘s fourth studio album has a release date and it’s planned to hit the stores at May 21st. Tracklist is still unknown, as well as any future plans of the duo regarding world tour, but the album is rumoured to have some massive collab talent behind it such as Paul Williams, Nile Rodgers, Giorgio Moroder, Panda Bear (Animal Collective) and Chilly Gonzales.

Pre-order it from iTunes.

Also, check out this mix of their SNL commercials done by thedafthouse.

It’s official, ladies and gents, and more importantly, it’s true and real. Daft Punk‘s new album has been officially registered in UK-based music licensing company PPL’s database with rights held by Sony Music Entertainment UK. The album will span roughly 74 minutes and will contain 13 tracks. The world can finally take a deep breath as the album is done, mastered and set to release and the release date will be known to public soon.

As I assumed before, Stuart Price made a new album. I may be wrong, but I’m quite sure Justice dropped one of the tracks from this sampler at the Ed Banger party. Album simply titled “Volume One” will be released May 1st and we still don’t know the tracklist.

A few hours back Daft Punk changed their Facebook profile pic to this and fans reacted. The picture doesn’t really give out much except that label stamp and the fact that they’ll activate once again that silver/gold colored helmets, going back to the roots after their Tron makeover. Also, this might be a cover of their new album, but I doubt it, judging by their previous artworks.

The ship took sale when Le Parisien reported about a new dish in Daft universe and this is just a confirmation of it.

They also updated their website, which crashed in a manner of minutes after they published a link to it. The site is back up again, but it only displays the artwork. Who knows what it means and this tease is in typical Daft Punk way of doing things, mysterious and cloudy.

Remember these guys? If you don’t, why are you even here? Anyway, according to Le Parisien, Daft Punk has found a new home. They apparently left EMI and are closing the deal with Sony to release their fourth studio album. Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo reportedly told his friends and other folks that info on Kavinsky‘s album release party which will officially be released in March. Being as it is, we’ll see a new Daft Punk album in 2013 for sure and besides that collab between them and Nile Rodgers, it’s yet to be seen what the album will bring.

via: Le Parisien

Daft Punk could be making a new album with Chic mastermind Nile Rodgers. On Tuesday the French duo apparently descended upon Rodgers’ home in New York, where they were to discuss recording music together.

“Daft Punk is hanging at my house!” Rodgers declared on his blog. He had mentioned the meeting a few days earlier, telling Houston’s Culture Map the group would be “coming to [his] apartment” to “talk about making a new record together”. He added: “Those guys are great.”

Neither Rodgers nor Daft Punk have issued details about their collaboration, but the acts have a history of mutual admiration. They first met in the 90s, Rodgers said, during “some sort of listening party” in New York. “The scene was chaotic and we didn’t really have a chance to have an artistic connection, except they did tell me they were sorry about my former partner Bernard Edward’s death. And they dug Chic.” For his part, Rodgers is a big fan of songs such as Da Funk, One More Time and Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. Although they made plans to “hook up” some time ago, it could not happen until now.

Rodgers may be contributing to Daft Punk’s next album, the follow-up to 2005′s Human After All. Besides his material with disco pioneers Chic, Rodgers is acclaimed for his production on songs such as David Bowie’s Let’s Dance, Sister Sledge’s We Are Family and Madonna’s Like a Virgin. After being diagnosed with prostate cancer in October 2010, the 59-year-old is now reportedly in remission. His memoirs were published last year.

Source: The Guardian