It's commendable that the EDM pioneers have swapped their laptops for real instruments in a bid to 'Give Life Back to Music', collaborating with some of their biggest influences along the way, notably Nile Rodgers and Giorgio Moroder, but the results although technically impressive are distinctly patchy. The album as a whole is sprawling and over ambitious with densely layered arrangements and a tendency to slip into self parody. Nothing gets close to the brilliance of lead single and sound of 2013 'Get Lucky'.
Daft Punk remain one of only a handful of bands to have produced truly ground breaking work in the last decade but this time it seems like they've taken their bid to move dance music forwards by looking back a bit too far. Even the sleeve design is a homage/rehash of a Giorgio Moroder record.
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