With the news coming out that Daft Punk have not only switched label but also be bringing out a new album this year, it’s gotten us all excited over here at FemaleFirst. So, as the eloquent types, we just thought we’d tell you exactly why we’re so looking forward to the return of the French house duo.
While the group are still a household name amongst music fans, the Parisian partnership have only actually released three albums under their own steam, with a fourth coming in the form of their soundtrack for movie Tron Legacy. Despite this though, they’re return has been one of the most awaited news in music, especially with them more often than not being credited with the rise of electronica in the mainstream.
Ever since their debut in 1997, Daft Punk have been one of the most iconic groups around, with their robotic disguises instantly recognisable and their musical thumb print instantly recognisable. While their opening album Homework was critically hailed, it was their follow-up discovery that still stands as one of the greatest albums ever made by a dance artists and made them global superstars.
Absolutely jam-packed with instantly brain snaring tracks from start to finish, Discovery hasn’t aged a day, despite being over a decade old.
Over the course of their three albums, the pair has been able to maintain three key themes. The first is making hooks and choruses that are instantly catchy, the original and inventive use of sounds and giving all of their albums a narrative. This in particular is something very much unique to the French duo.
Can you think of any other group, let alone an thoroughly electronic one, that could have an animated film based around an album of theirs make complete sense with no included dialogue? Ok, that might be because Interstella 5555 is the only album based animated movie ever made, but it’s still a real accomplishment.
The news that they had been brought in to do the Ton Legacy soundtrack was music to our ears. A film about life inside of machines paired up with music by two guys obsessed with the synthetic? Sounds like a match made in heaven. Thankfully when the final product came out, it matched up to all expectations, despite the facts that they’d been growing since 2004.
It may have been filled with the electronic fun and fizz that we’ve come to expect from the masked pair, but this record gave us something completely different to anything we’ve ever heard from Daft Punk before. It allowed us to see what mischief the pair could do when they got their hands on an orchestra. The results were magnificent, with their larger ensembles rising and falling like a turbulent ocean and mixing perfectly with the more familiar style of music we’ve come to expect from Daft Punk.
For one, we really hope that they have learned lessons from this experience and decide to incorporate some the tricks they picked up working on Disney’s blockbuster, evolving their sound once again and bringing over the sense of mood from this most recent work into their true fourth album.
We can’t wait for the pair to come back, take the mainstream electronic crown back off Skrillex and take their rightful place at the top of the dance music pile.
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