NEW
YORK (Virgin Records)Virgin Records recording artist
Daft Punk is set
to revolutionize dance floors and music playlists once again with the
release of their innovative new album "Human After All," hitting stores
on March 25. The CD is the follow-up to 2001's RIAA gold-certified
"Discovery," which sold 2.6 million copies around the world and
contained the smash hit "
One More Time" (which reached #1 in France,
Canada, Japan, and Portugal, #2 in the UK, and #1 on Billboard's
Dance/Club Play Chart). The new album's first single will be the
body-thumping, guitar-drenched "
Robot Rock"; the video for the song
will be directed by the
Daft Punk duo themselves -- Frenchmen Thomas
Bangalter and Guy Manuel de Homem.
"
Human After All" was
recorded at Daft Punk's home studio in Paris between
September and
November of 2004. Notoriously press-shy-and uniquely loath to have
their photos taken for publication -- the duo did have this to say to
British music magazine NME in January 2003: "The way the music industry
is at the moment is allowing us to experiment. If everything is
formulaic and we can finance ourselves to work outside of that formula,
then for us there are no rules. We're setting our own agenda."
Indeed, the duo does strike out on their own singular path on "Human
After All." Creating some of the most assertive and uncompromising
music of their career,
Daft Punk has married emotion and technology in
a way that perfectly mirrors the fast-paced and hard-hitting rhythms of
our modern lives. Songs like "The Prime Time of Your Life," "The
Brainwasher," and the title track are state-of-the-art aural
soundscapes that take the exhilaration of techno and the beat-driven
delirium of dance music to bold new heights. And for those quieter
moments, demonstrating that not all human feelings can be exhibited on
the dance floor, the pair has created a pair of soulful and affecting
romantic themes, "Make Love" and "Emotion."
Pioneers of electronic music,
Daft Punk have been astonishing the dance
and pop worlds with their versatility and inventiveness since they
first exploded onto the scene in 1997 with their Virgin Records debut,
the RIAA gold-certified "Homework," which included the hits "Da Funk"
and "Around the World," and which sold more than 2 million copies
worldwide.
Daft Punk videos
directed by the likes of Spike Jonze,
Michel Gondry and anime legend Leiji Matsumoto have further enhanced
the pair's reputation for artistic daredevilry. Now, treading
fearlessly into bold new territory with "Human After All," Daft Punk
continues to take music to the outer reaches of human possibility.
