A great use of catharsis, where you get to explore as we all do, asking questions for and about life, ourselves and having and giving/consoling insight. Chilly Gonzales has a wonderful solo piano introduction here that is exploratory, with much that is "said" within the keys/notes that are played, it is very clean, uniformed, playful and adheres wonderfully to the song. Like "Teachers" (from their Homework album,) it has a very nice and respectful introduction from (therefore - towards) Giorgio Moroder, and after his intro the rest of the song is such a solid showing of his use of a click, manipulations of sounds and freedom from ironically a single "click," and through that single click(ing), we get to hear DP give us a boundless expression of beautiful music. References like "Digital Love" (from their Discovery album) and "Make Love" (from their Human After All album) make this song "fitting." It has a nice subtextual flow and rhythm, you shan't be disappointed. DP is and has always been about music and making love. They give new life to us with wonderful music, it is - yes, a throwback to the `60's and yet, it being DP, it is also futuristic. As a great haiku is about showing and not telling, they start their new album with giving life. The title of the song is "Give Life (Back to Music)," and right from the get, DP shows their brilliant use of less is more. It sounds as though you are watching a 1960's TV show about space exploration. This song is so tight, it is so clean, it's wonderful to listen to all that is (or is not) between the notes, that's how amazing this song is. At around 3:30 in this song, I got excited, I knew that DP was setting up a new medley in-wait it's a nice slow bubbly bit and I hope they bridge and mix it into a "Brainwasher" bit that will give us the superfluously high and lows that we all love, look forward to and feel while at or listening to DP live. "The end and the beginning - love and the journey of the soul," this song encapsulates all that is within these lyrics and it does it so through the lyrics AND the music.ĭaft Punk as we all know have revolutionized the world of music and continue to do so with this album, but where they top - even themselves is in their medleys. The orchestra is so wonderful to have here. To me, it is obviously that DP is giving so many DJ's and the likes a full score of music so that they can mix, mash and re-mix this song over and over again. The bridge moves into a slow jam that later brings in the orchestra again. An explosion and it is masterful, DP uses the orchestra to just unleash in a sweeping exploit of power and energy. Oddly, I will begin with track #9 Beyond. And it's not that they just nailed it, but it is so much more than that. Of course Daft Punk is all about making one move to the music, and for their theme they picked 1960's California Cool. They have really put together an amazing ensemble of talent to help them with this album. So here we have it, the music of the greatest composer ever to live, giving us music that is both avant-garde and with an orchestra. To me, it seems as though Mozart has been reborn, because if he were alive today, he would most definitely be avant-garde and yet, it is undeniable that he would be bound to orchestration. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories - Review by Trevor Meyer
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