Daft Punk

Four years on from Discovery, the French duo releases its third album sounding darker and grittier than before, as if AC/DC and Black Sabbath have been let loose on a bank of sequencers. Still fabulously danceable, the music is less pop and more vital -- the beats attack harder this time. Distinctly more punk than daft, they look like robots, but rock like humans.

In Daft Punk's 2003 animated movie Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, the
French electronic twosome turned its 2001 album Discovery into a retro-futurist parable
about an outer-space rock band exploited by evil record-company earthlings. Now Daft
Punk are taking the next aesthetic step: Human After All is a concept album about
technology and how it threatens to turn us all into robots. Thomas Bangalter and... More >