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100
Deserting the shrieking acid house hysteria of their early work, the album moves in the same smooth filtered disco circles as the European dance smashes that were co-produced by DP's Thomas Bangalter during the group's long interim.
11y
100
Discovery showcases Daft Punk’s brilliant sense of timing and variety better than anything else they’ve released.
100
One of the best, if not the best, House and Dance records of all time.
8mo
90
Call it pop. Call it art. Call it retro-cheese neo-fusion with a side order of emperor's new arse. But play this orgasmically great record until your brain implodes with joy. That's what it's there for.
11y
80
It feels like a concept album -in this case, the story of how wine-flow disco circumnavigated intellectual pretentions on all sides en route to a temporary utopia that may finally believe in nothing but the boogie but still has the infinite on its mind every minute.
80
To say that the album is flawless would be something of a misstep, but even when Discovery flounders, it never ceases to provide an intriguing and far-reaching sonic vision unmatched by anything that’s come before it.
75
The Parisian duo return to claim their DJ-booth throne with a retro-techno-suite positing Switched-on Bach and Van Halen guitar solos as the new apex of club-culture chic.
64
Prog and disco have never openly begged for their own hybrid, but the genres' newborn Frankenbaby is alive, whether we like it or not. Still, this beast, however grotesque, is relatively harmless-- rather than running amok in the village and snapping the necks of civilians, it only wants to "celebrate and dance so free, one more time." Just don't let it sing.
11y
60
Yes zey drive you up zee wall, yes zey sound like Kraftwerk covering Barry Manilow through a vocoder…but for zees little time, at zees point in time zey sound good.
11y
60
The first five songs are the work of a real band, Daft Punk, whoever the hell they are ... As for the rest, it grows anonymous, and not in the artful way that Daft Punk used to capitalize on.
60
In their initial doses, these sounds are impressive enough, but for all their conceptual smarts, the French duo seem content to simply rework the same ideas over and over again on record without really pushing them further out. A great EP masquerading as a full album.
40
Most of Discovery probably sounded like a good idea at the time, but there's not much point in having ideas if they don't work. At worst, Discovery is less a record than a hypothesis. At best - like a lot of other records these days - it just sounds like Daft Punk's first album.
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Veridis Quo
Ve-ri-dis-quo
Very disco
Disco very
Discovery
Discovery: It's very disco, and very great
Baguette et béret – essai n°5
By breaking down language barriers, the French-speaking duo not only knew how to break down borders, they ended up setting the name Daft Punk in stone. While the announcement of their separation sounded like a nuclear explosion, the famous robots were already inescapable but this last chapter even allowed them to make them known to younger listeners. I think that it will be 30/40 years before the children ask their parents or grandparents, ... read more
It feels weird rating this album at my age cause I have heard this style of music and music inspired by these sounds everywhere. Thinking back any royalty free electronic music that'd play on minecraft tutorials did sound extremely similar to the sounds of this album. Maybe that's why I don't love it as much as others do since I am already used to this style of music. But it's still pretty fantastic
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Track List
| 1 | One More Time 5:20 | 95 |
| 2 | Aerodynamic 3:32 | 94 |
| 3 | Digital Love 5:01 | 96 |
| 4 | Harder Better Faster Stronger 3:44 | 97 |
| 5 | Crescendolls 3:31 | 90 |
| 6 | Nightvision 1:44 | 85 |
| 7 | Superheroes 3:57 | 90 |
| 8 | High Life 3:21 | 90 |
| 9 | Something About Us 3:52 | 93 |
| 10 | Voyager 3:47 | 92 |
| 11 | Veridis Quo 5:45 | 93 |
| 12 | Short Circuit 3:26 | 87 |
| 13 | Face to Face 4:00 | 96 |
| 14 | Too Long 10:00 | 90 |
Total Length: 1 hour, 1 minute
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3w
Crazy how there's three songs that deserve 11/10 and I haven't even listen to album in full yet
1mo
pitchfork falando "just don't let it sing" kkkkkkkkkkk mona vc deu 7 pro justin bieber
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