Does Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories Hold Up 10 Years Later?

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Music, Music Commentary, Music Interviews, Music History

3.3 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Puja Patel and Jeremy Larson talk to Pitchfork Features Editor Ryan Dombal about the iconic French duo’s final album, which was recently reissued. The episode also features Random Access Memories collaborator Todd Edwards reminiscing about the making of the song “Fragments of Time.”

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0:00.0	This is the pitchwork review. I'm Pooja Patel, the editor-in-chief, and today we're talking about the legendary electronic dance duo Daff Punk.
0:15.6	If you're wondering why we're talking about Daff Punk in the year 2023, it's because they've just
0:20.8	released a 10th anniversary
0:22.5	edition of their celebrated
0:24.5	and final album Random Access
0:26.7	Memories. This is our first
0:28.7	showing since they announced that they were breaking up
0:30.7	in 2021, and the album
0:32.6	features some additional unreleased
0:34.5	music. And stay tuned, because
0:36.6	later in the show, we'll talk to DJ and
0:38.5	producer Todd Edwards about his collaboration on the song, Fragments of Time.
0:51.1	Joining me now to talk about daft punk and their undeniable influence on decades of music,
0:57.1	our reviews director Jeremy Larson, and features editor Ryan Dombel.
1:01.9	Welcome, friends.
1:03.7	Hello, how are you?
1:05.5	That's like rude.
1:07.4	We're talking about deaf punk today?
1:09.7	Ryan, what's up
1:10.9	Hey I'm here as well
1:13.3	Man
1:18.4	I love when the gang's back to get me like this
	...

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