Album Review: Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

As the shroud of mystery around the release of Daft Punk’s fourth studio album, Random Access Memories, disappears and the hype settles, it’s interesting to think about what made this album so hotly anticipated. Random Access Memories is by no means a comeback album, Daft Punk never ceased to be relevant, but neither are they currently at the crest of any movement – their last bona fide album, Human After All, was a solid affair but held nothing on its predecessor, Discovery, and in the eight years since, perhaps no one was really waiting for a fresh batch of android dance anthems. Though if anyone was challenged to re-define electro in a computer-dominated era, the ever so definitive duo present themselves as model candidates.

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