Daft Punk: Discovery

I was introduced the electronic music duo Daft Punk a couple of months ago. Their album Discovery is stunning, well absolutely amazing in my opinion, because every song is a work of genius. I have never been so impressed by an album: it takes me through a variety of emotions every time I listen to it. The videos from the album are create a high-quality anime film, released as Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, when played together.

According to Thomas Bangalter, one of the founding members of Daft Punk:

This album has a lot to do with our childhood and the memories of the state we were in at that stage of our lives. It's about our personal relationship to that time. It's less of a tribute to the music from 1975 to 1985 as an era, and more about focusing on the time when we were zero to ten years old. When you're a child you don't judge or analyze music. You just like it because you like it. You're not concerned with whether it's cool or not. Sometimes you might relate to just one thing in a song, such as the guitar sound. This album takes a playful, fun, and colorful look at music. It's about the idea of looking at something with an open mind and not asking too many questions. It's about the true, simple, and honest relationship you have with music when you're open to your own feelings.

I think that is an amazing sentiment. Current popular music is too formulaic and dull while this album is a work of unbridled creativity.