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Four long years after their debut, Homework, Daft Punk returned with a second full-length, also packed with excellent productions and many of the obligatory nods to the duo's favorite stylistic speed bumps of the 1970s and '80s. Discovery is by no means the same record, though. Deserting the shrieking acid house hysteria of their early work, the album moves in the same smooth filtered disco circles as the European dance smashes ("Music Sounds Better With You" and "Gym Tonic") co-produced by DP's Thomas Bangalter during the group's long interim. If Homework was Daft Punk's Chicago house record, this is definitely the New York garage edition, with co-productions and vocals from Romanthony and Todd Edwards, two of the brightest figures based in New Jersey's fertile garage scene. Also in common with classic East Coast dance and '80s R&B, Discovery surprisingly focuses on songwriting and concise productions, though the pair's visions of bucolic pop on "Digital Love" and "Something About Us" are delivered by an androgynous, vocoderized frontman singing trite (though rather endearing) love lyrics. "One More Time," the irresistible album opener and first single, takes Bangalter's "Music Sounds Better With You" as a blueprint, blending sampled horns with some retro bass thump and the gorgeous, extroverted vocals of Romanthony going round and round with apparently endless tweakings. Though "Aerodynamic" and "Superheroes" have a bit of the driving acid minimalism associated with Homework, here Daft Punk is more taken with the glammier, poppier sound of Eurodisco and late R&B. Abusing their pitch-bend and vocoder effects as though they were going out of style (about 15 years too late, come to think of it), the duo loops nearly everything they can get their sequencers on -- divas, vocoders, synth-guitars, electric piano -- and conjures a sound worthy of bygone electro-pop technicians from Giorgio Moroder to Todd Rundgren to Steve Miller. Daft Punk are such stellar, meticulous producers that they make any sound work, even superficially dated ones like spastic early-'80s electro/R&B ("Short Circuit") or faux-orchestral synthesizer baroque ("Veridis Quo"). The only problems on Discovery arise when Daft Punk compensate for the album's lack of six-minute dance tracks by including a few too many half-developed productions like "High Life" and the ambient piece "Nightvision." One other crime is burying the highlight of the entire LP near the end. "Face to Face," a track with garage wunderkind Todd Edwards, twists his trademarked split-second samples and fully fragmented vision of garage into a dance-pop hit that could've easily stormed the charts in 1987. Daft Punk even manage a sense of humor about their own work, closing with a ten-minute track aptly titled "Too Long." ~ John Bush, All Music Guide
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- Musique, Vol.1 (1993-2005)
- Released 2006
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- Homework
- Released 1997
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- Alive: 2007 (Live)
- Released 2007
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- Human After All
- Released 2005
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Best Daft Punk Album EVER!
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- By ARod1122
- 4/26/2009 01:03:15
- This is one of the few albums I can listen to all the way through without skipping a single time. Every single song in this album is simply awesome. This is without a shadow of a doubt Daft Punk's best work to date. Homework I would put as a distant second(even though it is still an amazing album in itself) even though it was more creative with the sounds. Anyone who hasn't listened to this album is seriously missing out. Give your ears a joyride and listen to this godly album.
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Amazing.
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- By Boneill1621
- 2/26/2009 21:23:38
- Daft Punk forever! One of the best electronic albums of all time. Everything Daft Punk lays their hands on is good in my opinion. The greatest DJ's of all time? Time will tell. No one can beat their costumes that's for sure. If you have the opportunity to see them live, do it. Its breath taking.
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Way to go!
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- By ilzze
- 2/2/2009 02:45:10
- I really liked Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. Seriously, some new kind of catchy tune with the same saying over and over again is so much fun for dancing, and they even got a T.V. spot for a show with the song!
*****! - 0 out of 1 people
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Not new, still good
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- By MowsMek
- 2/1/2009 02:15:45
- there's no new stuff in there, i mean they didn't reinvent there music but they find a way to make almost all songs hits, beat is great in all of those im not skiping from one to another and thats an exploit for me when you can make me listen to every single seconds of the song instead of creating my own beat over it lol, so Bravo!
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Interstella 5555
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- By SlippedDisco
- 11/14/2008 14:24:09
- It is a bit of a disservice to fans of Daft Punk to not mention the Toei Studios long form music video version of this album. The music is great, and the video really fits.
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Instrumentals are Amazing!
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- By Matt 37405
- 9/29/2008 05:14:01
- Nobody should miss listening to this!
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awesome!
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- By Dontsendmecrap
- 9/28/2008 18:25:20
- i love tis album to death!!! its awesome!!!
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SOMETHING'S IN THE AIR
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- By cs188
- 7/14/2008 06:23:22
- SOMETHING'S IN THE AIR SOMETHING'S IN THE AIR SOMETHING'S IN THE AIR SOMETHING'S IN THE AIR SOMETHING'S IN THE AIR SOMETHING'S IN THE AIR SOMETHING'S IN THE AIR SOMETHING'S IN THE AIR SOMETHING'S IN THE AIR SOMETHING'S IN THE AIR SOMETHING'S IN THE AIR SOMETHING'S IN TH<br/><br/>Yeah I know this isn't helpful. :) So shoot me. Discovery is one of the greatest experimental/electronic/house<br/> albums of the new millennium, though.
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