Discovery | Loppylugs

Submitted by Richard Norbury on 20 July 2013 - 9:49pm

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Artist:

Daft Punk

album-ID:

a_136

Nationality:

France

Year:

2 001

Release-year:

0000

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Track-listing:

One More Time*Aerodynamic*Digital Love*Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger*Crescendolls*Nightvision*Superheroes*High Life*Something About Us*Voyager*Veridis Quo*Short Circuit*Face To Face*Too Long

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Nominator:

Bean

meeting-ID:

m_52

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Spotify-URL:

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Grooveshark-URL:

Discovery/112478

Short-title:

discovery

nominator-ID:

u_14

Meeting-date:

Thursday, 15 August 2013

MusicBrainz-URL:

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Wikipedia-URL:

Discovery_(Daft_Punk_album)

Spotify-link-type:

album

Metacritic-URL:

discovery/daft-punk

Discogs-URL:

Daft-Punk-Discovery/master/26647

Allmusic-URL:

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BBC-URL:

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rdio-URL:

Daft_Punk/album/Discovery

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reviewed by

Richard Norbury
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reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

Daft Punk is playing at my house

3-4-14

9-10-13

They seem to be going for a sound that is only slightly robotic, on a tiny little bit of a machine music trip. To me, if you don't follow that kind of thing through fully you can end up just sounding plasticky and somewhat sterile. There's also a strong cut and paste vibe, which is fine, but a few little bits of gradual change and a few little twists and turns would really help to overcome the Lego brick feel.

There’s some well studied and well executed passages of homage including a fine, if slightly incongruous, 80s electro piece, Short Circuit, there's also little touches of early synth in a baroque style à la Wendy Carlos. It's clever stuff and overall well constructed but I think it needs a sprinkling of some musicianship, warmth and considered arrangement to bring it all to life properly.
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reviewed by

Matthew Baker

Nous sommes les robots

10

5

Not the classic album you expect it to be, considering this kind of sealed their reputation as some kind of electronic gods. They know what they're doing and are whizzes in the studio, but the album is a bit all over the place and they are a bit too fond of piggybacking genres.
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reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

Confined to the Loppy scrap heap

1

This lot are dreadful. It's exactly what I don't want to hear in life, and yet it gets played wherever I am. Half time at the football, TV adverts, shops, bad discos - you can't bloody escape it. It reminds me of everything that's wrong with the world. How come everyone seems to like it?