At a point last year it seemed that the only thing happening on the planet was a Daft Punk release, or rather, fanatics such as I acted like nothing else was going on. Looking back and listening again, the marketing campaign was as vast as the emotional range of the album’s songs.
A good few months on, with some distance away from the giant billboards strategically hung above hipster havens, broadsheet reviews that focused more on the PR than art and all those comparisons between the upbeat electronic works of two twenty year olds and the new release by two guys now in their late 30’s who we forgot might have chilled out, grown up and made families, the album stands its ground as an incredibly well produced, moving and significant piece of work.
Here are some great lines sung by the robots that at times offer more pathos than many of the best purely human voices in the charts.
‘It was almost impossible because the dream was so big.’
‘There’s a world within me that I can not explain.’
‘The summer memory that just never dies. We worked too long and hard to give it no time.’
‘I know you don’t get a chance to take a break this often… Lose yourself to dance.’
‘A tourist in a dream. A visitor, it seems. A half forgotten song. Where do I belong?’
‘We’ve come too far to give up who we are. So, lets raise the bar and our cups to the stars.’
‘Remember, love’s our only mission. This is the journey of the soul.’
‘The perfect song is framed with silence. It speaks of places never seen.’
‘I’ll just keep playing back these fragments of time. Everywhere I go, these moments will shine.’
‘If you lose your way tonight, that’s how you know the magic’s right.’
