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bennyguan:

#NP: Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (Entire Album)

Okay I’ll admit, I was one of the skeptics who dismissed this upcoming album’s impending impact on the Electronic Dance Music scene as nothing more than hype, because let’s face it, a lot of people were hailing it as “game changing” before “Get Lucky” even hit the airwaves. Today, shortly after the album appeared to have been leaked online, it became available for streaming on iTunes in its entirety. You can listen here: http://www.itunes.com/daftpunk.

Boy, was I in for a treat. Within fifteen seconds of listening, I knew I was wrong. Within fifteen minutes of listening, I became absolutely convinced that this is the groundbreaking album that the dance music world so sorely needed. Following not necessarily the traditional conventions of four-to-the-floor and saw synth leads so often found in dance music today, but rather adapting musical nuances of rock, jazz, and classical, then served with a graceful dash of Daft Punk’s signature “disco-funk” sound, Random Access Memories defies genres and gently but unabashedly delivers what could be best described as “musical bliss.” Yes, it’s that good.

Wolfgang Gartner recently addressed this in his interview with White Raver Rafting, where he said, albeit slightly hypocritically, “In some way I’m hoping Daft Punk single-handedly destroys this phenomenon we’re experiencing and un-brainwashes everybody into realizing that real music should have some soul and authenticity to it, and not just be a big kick drum and a trance breakdown with a cheesy one-liner and a ‘big drop.’” His wish may have came true—you’re not going to find any heavy buildups (except in the last minute and half of the last track) nor will you find any massive drops of multi-layered hypersaw synths here (as much as I love those).

Instead, what you’ll find are beautifully composed tracks like “The Game of Love,” with vocoded vocals ever so slightly reminiscent of Daft Punk’s Discovery album, mixed smoothly into songs with melodic arpeggiated synth riffs accompanied by a soothing jazzy electric piano like on “Giorgio by Moroder,” to rock-influenced jams like “Instant Crush” featuring vocals from Julian Casablancas of The Strokes (complete with a guitar solo!), and of course the future classic “Get Lucky” featuring Pharrell Williams. Each track on this album deserves every second of your listening attention, but as I’m a sucker for vivid lyrics and bright feel-good chord progressions, perhaps my personal favorite thus far is “Fragments of Time” featuring Todd Edwards:

Driving this road down to paradise
Letting the sunlight into my eyes
Our only plan is to improvise

And it’s crystal clear
That I don’t ever want it to end

If I had my way I would never leave
Keep building these random memories
Turning our days into melodies
But since I can’t stay

I’ll just keep playing back
These fragments of time
Everywhere I go
These moments will shine

In their Rolling Stone interview last month, Thomas Bangalter himself said, “Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone and it’s not moving one inch.” Even if this album doesn’t violently wake Electronic Dance Music up from its hypnosis of bland conformity, I’m sure it will be moved at least more than an inch.

Great review.

racecafe:

garageprojectmotorcycles:

This one goes in the inspiration folder…

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howtotalktogirlsatparties:

“I’ve been second my whole life. I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I’ve been second in the MVP voting three times. I came in second in the finals. I’m tired of being second…I’m done with it.”

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tyleroakley:

Let’s not beat around the bush here…

OR SHALL WE?!

Why the fuck is she cuddling with Tampax at what appears to be a pool that is also the ocean?

I want a tampon commercial where the women are fighting zombies or some shit.

And they’re all beat up and bloody and shoving tampons into bullet wounds to stop the bleeding.

And I want one of the ladies to full-on decapitate a zombie with a machete or maybe a scythe.

And then I want her to look directly into the camera with blood running from an open wound on her forehead and say,

“For the fighting spirit.”

^ That commercial would win all of the Oscars.

That commercial would make more sense that all this faffing about through the fields of daisies and cuddling your fucking tampons bullshit…

What are you talking about?

I sit by the pool/ocean cuddle my tampons all the fucking time.

Who wants to start a tampon company with me just so we can make that commercial?

What would it be called, Tampocalypse? I’d be game if it were called Tampocalypse.

reblogging for the priceless notes

The Tampocalypse

FOR THE FIGHTING SPIRIT.

Well periods aren’t all ‘Let me parade around in my motherfucking white bikini at the beach and shake my ass around in front of the hot boys while snuggling my tampon box”

IT’S LITERALLY A BLOOD BATH!!

IT’S A WAR!

IF YOU GET IN MY WAY, FUCKER I WILL KNOCK YOU THE FUCK OUT!

Tampocalypse.

Reblogging for the comments

this is the best chain of comments ever. period.

can I be a shareholder?

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buzzfeed:

This is terrifying.