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Daft Punk - Human After All

PatrickMM

00:44 / 21.03.05

Reading a bunch of reviews on this, the general consesus seems to be it's not a very good album, or at least it doesn't live up to their previous stuff. Now, I've heard the album a few times now, and while I would agree it doesn't even touch 'Discovery,' it's by no means a bad album. I feel like the tracks all have something worthy about them, they just need a bit more work and variation to make them great. 'Human After All,' ''Robot Rock' and 'The Brainwasher' are the standout tracks for me.

PatrickMM

00:49 / 21.03.05

And l'd just add that I've pulled out Discovery again and it's just a phenomenal album. The way they combine the different elements within the song, varying to slow things down then build them up again. I love the way they have the vocals as just another element in the mix rather than the entire focus of the song as most artists would do. But sadly, considering Human After All, it looks like the crazy 70s future pop of Discovery is a one album thing, never to be heard again.

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

10:13 / 21.03.05

Yea, I'm not really feeling this latest effort at all...It sounds really rushed, like they want out of their deal and are just realeasing sketches to speed things along.

Triplets

21:42 / 24.03.05

I've had it on my iPod since January (thanks, leaked sources). All comments about it sounding rushed, amateurish, repetitive, and like it's "Daft Punk doing a pisstake of Daft Punk" as one online mag put it are... completely true.

However, something very odd occurs when given repeated listens, the fucker grows on you til you actually seek them out in your playlist to give a listen. It's like it slips in and infects you on the sly. It does get better and catchier over time. F'rinstance I now love 'Primetime of Your Life' and '(Rock!) Robot Rock' truely.

You really need to give it time to sink in. However, not very impressed with the rest of the tracks... Human After All and Emotion(?) only sneaking into my head and just barely. I wouldn't pay for it, put it that way.

charrellz

13:12 / 25.03.05

I heard Robot Rock the other day and I enjoyed it, but it just wasnt...great. It sorta felt like an intro, and I just spent the whole song waiting for the rest of it to start. What confuses me is that I want to hear it again. And again and again.

Triplets

17:37 / 25.03.05

Charrelz locks onto my point with point-seeking-missiles. If the entire album sounds like an intro could it be that we secretly keep listening because we're waiting for the rest of the music to start?

Triplets

01:41 / 26.03.05

What I hate though is this:

The first single to be taken from Daft Punk's third studio album, 'Human After All', is the body thumping, guitar drenched 'Robot Rock'. The video for the song will be directed by Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel De Homem Christo.

This will be their second foray into directing (they directed 'Fresh' from the 'Homework' album) and is a natural progression for the pair, for whom visual creativity has always been key.

Every single god damn website I've read reviews on has used that ad copy. Lazy FUCKS.

PatrickMM

15:07 / 29.03.05

Said video is up on DaftPunk.com and it's pretty entertaining, though not even close to the brilliance of the videos for Around the World or Da Funk. But, it's got a really cool/cheesy 70s feel, and people in robot suits playing instruments with neon lights everywhere, so it's worth watching.

Regrettable Juvenilia

11:13 / 11.04.05

Oddly enough I never really got into Daft Punk in the past, despite lots of like-minded people enthusing about them. But I love 'Robot Rock'. Maybe you just have to hear it in a club...

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

16:15 / 11.04.05

I like it. But then I love the stripped back early electro sound they recapture in places, so it's no real suprise.

ORA ORA ORA ORAAAA!!

05:14 / 16.04.05

I really like it. There are some tracks I don't enjoy as much as the rest of the album (Technologic and The Brainwasher don't do it for me), but even they have really good bits.
I also appreciate them making a lot of music with a little sound, if that makes any sense.

Yes.

PatrickMM

01:45 / 18.04.05

Here's their new video, for Technologic. I love this one, it's up there with Around the World and Da Funk, and is just really bizarre. Look at those gums.

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

01:56 / 18.04.05

Fuck me, that robots's going to shit up some little kids good and proper.

iamus

13:19 / 30.04.05

I really like the album. It's obviously not as good as Discovery or Homework, but after those two it was kind of inevitable it wouldn't be. I suppose it depends on what you're expecting. It certainly doesn't have anywhere near the kind of narritive to it that Discovery had, it's kind of minimalist in comparison to the previous two but I like that. It feels to me, like frog said, that they're figuring out how to make more music with less sound, after the aurgasmic grandeur of Discovery.

The only really disappointing track for me is "The Prime Time of Your Life". The way it starts up seems to promise that it's going to expand into something brilliant, but it doesn't. It's like they couldn't be arsed and just decided to keep speeding it up until it broke. Other than that, I think the tracks deliver what they promise from the outset. It's not a spectacular album, but it is very cool. I can definately see myself dancing to it.

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