Daft Punk's 4th Studio Album, R.A.M.

Being huge Daft Punk fans, we couldn't wait to get our hands on this eagerly awaited album by one of the World's leading artists, and so on the stroke of midnight we had the iphone handy for a 00:00:01 am istore download of the robots fourth studio album, entitled "Random Access Memories".

In truth we didn't have a clue what to expect from this album, as there were so many collaborations, and with the sound of their pre-album promo release "Get Lucky feat.Pharrell Williams" providing us with something a bit funky and different to the normal mix of Robot Rock we're used to, it was almost a step into the unknown for us...almost...

As the first track played at 00:02am "Give Life Back To Music" we were instantly reminded of the greatness of this electronic funk rock band. It reminded us of 'Ronseal' (it did exactly what it said on the tin). Music was back in our lives instantly with the melodic tracks provided.

The album as a whole provides a very different array of ensembles of funk disco, rock ballads, swinging sixties electronica, thumping dance beats, and extraordinary vocals.

The strangest track, in our opinion is perhaps "Gorgio by Moroder", which basically has Gorgio talking over his early memories of being at school and wishing nothing more than to live his dream of being a musician, all the while a catchy, and classic Daft Punk, style melody and beat is playing over the top of him.

The only track which i'd say is a strange one coming from Guy Manuel De Homem Christo, and Thomas Bangalter, is track 9, entitled "Beyond". When this first came on we had images of a scene from a Disney Advert, with strings playing a classical fanfare of excitement, before it melts into a smooth, robot vocaled track, reminiscant of "Something About Us" from their second studio album "Discovery".

Indeed, if you look and listen hard enough, in some cases it's blatantly obvious, you will find examples of all of Daft Punk's creativity from previous albums all throughout. There are more than one or two tracks that remind us of Tron Legacy, the end track,, "Contact" has so much of Homework in it, and there are stand out tracks, just as in Human After All, but more importantly, it has the lastability, we think, of Daft Punk fan's mainstream album Discovery, and with the death earlier this month of Romanthony, the singer from Texas who provided us with the vocals on one of the robots most iconic tracks, "One More Time" and then later in the album, "Too Long", perhaps this album is a fitting tribute to the late singer/songwriter.

We're still listening to it now as we write this review, but it definately is not getting tiresome. It becomes more intriguing as we listen to it further, discovering new background sounds we missed the first few times, and becoming more involved in the psyche of Daft Punk, (if robots do indeed have a psyche?).

Random Access Memories is certainly a personal album by the French duo, offering up the very best of what Daft Punk has to offer, and opening up a whole new World of exploration in the music industry, because quite frankly, there is no singlular more unique sound in music today than what these guys have to offer us. Viva la Memoires.

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