Human After All [ECD] - Daft Punk > Reviews

Advantages: Daft Punk going back to their roots
Disadvantages: A lot different from Discovery album; some may not like that

...their own voices. "We are human after all" is what they declare but Daft Punk don't just record their voices straight, no they distort it and change it making themselves sound like robots. "The Prime Time Of Your Life" seems more of a return to their cut and paste past. It's a kind of mix of all different sounds, with a heavy filtered bass and beats layered over flashes of a synth. They use bits of vocals which has all been mashed up using a vocoder ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent production. Different direction (new sound). Not a lot else.
Disadvantages: Overuse of the robotic voice sound. Not a single 'killer' hit (like One More Time, Aerodynamic etc..).

...- becuase there's nothing particularly human about it. Maybe I've missed the point of the album and that it was an experiment for Daft Punk - but given the amount of publicity it had in Japan - I doubt that was the case. If it was an experiment - then it went wrong. If it was released as a commercial album - in my opinion it's a disaster - because there's not a single track here worth being released as a single. A very disappointing effort from ... Read review

Advantages: new sound created through the use of guitars
Disadvantages: repetative???

Human After All, the highly anticipated third album from the French duo Daft Punk and only took six weeks to make. The album begins with the Track Human After All which has a real electronic sound to it very similar to Kraftwerk, you will also instantly notice the use of electric guitars in the track all of which are preformed by Daft Punk, this helps to create a new sound to Daft Punk's music and this theme is continued throughout the album. The ... Read review