[Music] Daft Punk Acces Random Memories leak download [SPOIL]

[ArgonaZe]

So the new Daft Punk album has been leaked and can be downloaded everywhere for those who don't want to wait the official release date

[SPOIL] BEWARE [SPOIL]

I am gutted, and disappointed by this album, too much funk, too much weirdness. It feels like they have lost their touch.
I like just 4 out of 13:
- Get Lucky
- Instant Crush
- Doin It Right
- Contact

And even those ones are far from their good old classics.
Yes I might be those kind of guys "who just expected good old daft punk", I know time changes and all that but it feels like it's not even them. After Discovery and Homework it's quite hard to do better, even more after such a long break. But hell even Tron OST(which only was an OST so had to be one style) is better.
Maybe I expected to much, or maybe Daft Punk tried to change too much.

PS: I didn't even know what i was listening to when the track Touch came up

[Xyanide]

why do you have spoiler tags for an album... am I missing something?

[ArgonaZe]

Because I suspect that people want to wait for the release date and do not wish to see anything about it. Maybe stupid, but don't want to be flamed by "OMG YOU RUINED TEH ALBUM FOR ME TARD" comments

[Raybourne]

Get lucky got old real fast. There's nothing special about it. It just sounds like some generic disco trash from the 70s, which isn't surprising since a member of Chic co-wrote it.

[Butler Log]

Spoiler tags look like this:

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[Shinzai]

I have no idea what you could have been expecting after they released the Get Lucky single. Daft Punk's *never* had a set style, literally, ever.

From Homework, Da Phunk is completely different to Around The World and both were house/alternative dance hits.

Discovery has a LOT in common with Random Access Memories. Something About Us, One More Time, Digital Love, hell at least 80% of the album is pure synth pop and has a similar vibe.

Human After All has a more crunchy, fragmented, retro-electro pop vibe to it, having a bit in common with Homework, but still sounding more synth orientated and cleaner overall.

The Tron: Legacy OST, that they crafted from the ground up was again, very synth orientated, crossing boundaries into trance, while retaining the retro vibe that permeates everything they create.

So, aside from the retro feeling aesthetic to all of their music, there's very little chaining anything they do together. They're always innovating and switching things up. RAM is a digital electro funk odyssey in its own right and it's pointless trying to compare their albums: They're just not comparable in "this one is better than that one" kind of way, given that each one aims for a different over all feel and style.

Addendum - To quote a sample from the track Giorgio by Moroder (I believe it's that one) on RAM:

"Once you free your mind about a concept of harmony and music being 'correct', you can do whatever you want, so nobody told me what to do and there was no preconception of what to do."

[Kakazam]

Get lucky got old real fast. There's nothing special about it. It just sounds like some generic disco trash from the 70s, which isn't surprising since a member of Chic co-wrote it.

lol.

Not heard it in its entirety yet but it sounds good from what I've heard. Daft Punk stated they wanted to go back to the roots of dance music (disco/funk) as all this mainstream electro is killing the scene. Need to remember, they started out as underground techno DJ's prior to making it big (sample of one of their tracks from those days - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxFZ1MgY_0g). They want to stick to the scene that helped them, not further destroy it by conforming to what is popular by demand.

[Merite]

I listened to the entire album and felt sort of confused. I know they've never really had a set genre, but one of the songs sounded like it was from a musical, like .. Les Miserable or something, not only does it not feel like a full album, it doesn't even feel like similarly the same artist.

Also, it was released for free on itunes, by them, not sure if it was following a leak, but it's legit if anyone wants to download it. Don't have the link, should be an easy google.

[Zigeuner]

I love it. Personal favourites after the few listens I've managed are:

Give Life Back to Music
Giorgio By Moroder
Instant Crush
Lose Yourself to Dance
Motherboard
Fragments of Time
Doin' It Right
Contact

I love the Prog-Funk vibe, even the slower songs that aren't on my Favourite list remind me of old songs from the 70s/80s. I'm just loving it and glad they didn't fill it with "Get Lucky" songs as that song is my least favourite and I can honestly say I always skip over it.

[aeir]

I absolutely adore Homework/Discovery. Especially Discovery, which is probably in my top 3 albums of all time.

I'm giving this album a lot of listens, but.. I don't know. It's pretty good, but nothing near the two original ones. Sad to say that I like the Tron album more than this.

There are some GEMS(like the ending of the last song) within some of the songs, and a few are exceptional in my eyes, but I can't help to feel a bit disappointed.

[minkage]

Slow burn music much like Human After All its gonna take a few listens to warm up to it all.

[JeanJacket]

While I think the album is still really good overall, I also think it was really dumb for them to hype it up as being something that would revolutionize the current EDM scene. If you make a statement like that people are going to expect wayyy to much out of it and will obviously be let down by it. The album hardly had any EDM on it in the first place, it was mostly disco/funk/rock with a bit of electronic music mixed in with it. I can see why people are let down by this album but it's mostly Daft Punk's fault for overhyping the album for their fans doing the whole collaborators series and releasing get lucky as a single. If they had kept the album under wraps a bit more and released the collaborator videos after the album was released I feel the album would have gotten a much more positive response. Still a pretty great album tho

[SkyBlueAri]

I really liked the album. I thought it seemed more geared towards a live band kind of outfit rather than a set of sounds that were arranged in a studio. Loved a lot of the album. It was, overall a very complete musical experience. I liked it. but I assume there will be people out there who won't enjoy it because its not as technologically played.

[Zalkiden]

I have been listening to this album literally all day and can say that I have thoroughly enjoyed it. I absolutely love 'Touch' as well as many of the other songs. This album isn't just an album, Daft Punk has really tried hard to convey a message and a story. We're still following the Robots through there journey to try and understand human emotion and to even have a chance feel it themselves. They're showing us that music can still hold magic, it doesn't have to be mindless fodder like what usually goes around these days. They're just trying to take us to a golden age of music from another time...not our time. A time that has come to pass or possibly has even yet to come. Splendid album, my ears will certainly be happy for a long while with this album.