Daft Punk New Album: "Get Lucky" Released, Duo Provides 'Random Access Memories' Track-By-Track Breakdown

The buzz surrounding Daft Punk's new album Random Access Memories has reached a fever-pitch, and just in time the duo have released "Get Lucky", the Pharrell Williams collaboration/ lead single off of the album. They also gave the world a track-by track breakdown of RAM... to the magazine Le Nouvel Observatuer... in French. However, thanks to the wonders of living in the future (i.e. Google Translate), I can bring you the highlights from the break down.

"Give Life Back To Music"

The opening track of this collaboration heavy album features John Robinson Jr. on drums. Robinson Jr. is best known for his work on Michael Jackson's Off The Wall. The robots claim that they are aspiring to be as organically precise and crisp as a Quincy Jones production. They claim that no amount of technology has ever been able to match the perfection that Jones brings to an album. They wanted a piece of that for their low-tech (for Daft Punk, anyway) effort Random Access Memories, so they brought in one of his go-to drummers.

"The Game of Love"

 This part of the interview contains a theme that Daft Punk have harped on in all the interviews surrounding this project, the idea that they wanted to make more human sounding robots. Expect the uncanny valley theme to permeate the entire disc. Daft Punk also shout out Autotune saying that "We sing with vocoders. At a time when human voices are processed to become robotic, we found exciting to make a more humane as possible robotic voice"

"Within"

 "'Within' is one of the first songs we recorded. It is very minimal: a little rhythm section, bass, piano. Create the most with very little, this is the idea behind this title. "

 On "Instant Crush", the much-touted Julian Casablancas track

 "We, basically, we love rock and the concept of the rock band, but there were so many strong things that the emergence of a new voice at one point became difficult."

"Julian has a punk rock side, a super strong emotional impact in [the track's] melodies."

 Lose Yourself to Dance

This one sounds like a dance music throwback. It seems Daft Punk were looking to make a dance music track that harkened back to the genre's roots.

"This is the opposite of something overproduced. Our fantasy was to redo the dance music with drums ... The record that way has brought us enormous satisfaction, we are proud that it is a real drums on the album and not a box to rhythms."

On "Get Lucky", the single that has been breaking the Internet

 "Pharrell Williams sings this song: it was natural to invite our album. It is a born performer, complete, which produces a lot of elegance. It has not always had the opportunity to show he could be a great singer, so that we can include it in the pantheon of legendary performers. There is no imaginary line that separate the great artists of the past and present who are all worse than before. We wanted to give the impression of being in a capsule in the studio, isolated from the world. One can believe in 1978, but our idea is to travel this music in the present and in the future, see what happens and see if this enthusiasm is contagious."

Doin it Right

This track will contain the "angelic voice" of Panda Bear from Animal Collective. The robots claim that this is the only electronic track on the album.

Contact

This song was made with DJ Falcon and contains the voice of Captain Eugene Cernan, the last man to go to the moon during the Apollo 17 mission (because of course it does).

The whole interview is here (if you speak French). Google Translate is here (if you don't).

Listen to the really, actually, for real official radio edit of "Get Lucky" here.

Random Access Memories is due out May 21.