why fuss over sticking the landing. the residual memory we carry alongside the music is that of bangalter and de homem-christo, ringed by friends, dangling their feet off the edge of pop culture’s mount rushmore, game finessed. all products featured on pitchfork are independently selected by...
’s random access memories ? what possible lessons can we learn from 2023’s second re-edition of daft punk’s third-best album, in which every sonic detail is the same, other than the absence of drums? why on earth did daft punk, one of the savviest musical duos in modern memory, ...
Thomas Bangalter and Guy de-Homem Christo spent more than a million dollars to make their triumphant comeback record, Random Access Memories. It showed. In rejection of the frictionless EDM sounds then at their commercial peak, Daft Punk went straight to the source in their quest to revive som...
Random Access Memories. It showed. In rejection of the frictionless EDM sounds then at their commercial peak, Daft Punk went straight to the source in their quest to revive some of their favorite analog styles. They booked time in a handful of the world’s ...
in a dj mix in 2002, and now it finds its way on an album about time and memory in 2013. you get a feeling of time collapsing with it, seeing where daft punk have been and where they could go. “contact” will likely close some future live multimedia extravaganza, and people will ...
Daft Punk: Random Access Memories (Drumless Edition) $40 at Rough Trade $38 $28 at Amazon $37 at TargetEvan Minsker is an editor, journalist, and critic who was a member of Pitchfork’s staff from 2012 to 2024. He wrote a garage punk column, co-ran the news section, and oversaw ...
It looks like Daft Punk's Random Access Memories might be getting the deluxe box set treatment. The Daft House points to a series of evidence suggesting that during New York Comic Con this weekend, the deluxe edition was revealed when one attendee won a signed copy, announced its existe...
The new Daft Punk album, Random Access Memories, is up for pre-order on iTunes. It's out May 21 via Daft Life Limited, an imprint of Columbia Records. Fuck yeah. Update: Another short ad just aired during "Saturday Night Live". It's just 15 seconds long (like the las...
Daft Punk are doing a nice job of mythologizing their new album, Random Access Memories, before it's even been released. In the second installment of the series of interviews with collaborators (we already saw Giorgio Moroder's), producer Todd Edwards talks about packing up his life in...