When Daft Punk launched its fourth and presumably final mission statement, “Random Access Memories,” into the atmosphere 10 long years ago, it was greeted with the kind of genre- and generation-spa…
launched its fourth and presumably final mission statement, “Random Access Memories,” into the atmosphere 10 long years ago, it was greeted with the kind of genre- and generation-spanning adulation that’s rare in any genre. At the time of its release, the supernova of cool around Daft Punk was so pervasive — and the hits from the album, particularly “Get Lucky,” were so ubiquitous — that it topped album charts all over the world, won four Grammys and got a whopping 8.
For all its success and adulation at the time, “Random Access Memories” — which is re-released in a lavish 10 th anniversary edition today, with a fascinating 35-minute companion album of previously unreleased material — is a challenging, often-contrarian album, and viewed outside of the heat of the moment of its arrival, those factors have become clearer .
Most of all, it’s unquestionably the album the duo wanted to make, and sometimes it’s worth meeting the artist where they are, forgiving the parts you don’t like and focusing on the ones that you do.
Every supernova has a snap-back, a reassessment, before the more-or-less final verdict settles in, and this edition of “Random Access Memories” not only presents the album’s brilliance and flaws in a more dramatic light, it does so with the added context of the sketches, treatments and abandoned experiments that helped make it what it is — one of the greatest albums by one of the most important and influential artists of its era.
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