Elly Roberts reviews
Daft Punk: Human After All
Distributed by
Virgin Records (EMI)
- Released: March 2005
- Rating: 2/10
- Cat.no.: CDV 2996
2001's Discovery was brilliant-intelligent synth-synthetic pop at it's best.
Spawning the classic single Digital Love, it was a couple of generations
on from German 'robotic combo' Kraftwerk.
Human After All's predecessor brought the genre out of the dark ages,
filling dance-floors across Europe, and over the radio like a rash. With this,
the French pairing of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo are
going back to the dark ages with an overdose of techno-wizardry to send you
mental. Trying to look for redeeming qualities is like trying to find a helpful
Frenchman in Paris.
Oops - I don't believe it I actually found ONE - a limp but almost human
offering: Make Love - to this - no thanks.
Seriously in danger of alienating themselves,their total self-indulgence is
progressive (and commercial) suicide - which you might want to consider at the
end of this chaotic acidic 10-track saga.
Steam Machine is a heavy breathing nightmare. Brainwasher is an
apt title - I think a lobotomy would have been a lot less painful. Send in the
robots, and it's 'taxi' for Daft Punk.
Technologically perfect: musically dysfunctional.Sad.
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