Music
14 Mar 05

Human After All

The follow-up to 2001's hugely successful Discovery‚ Human After All displays non of its predecessor's pop nous – or brevity, with the likes of the title-track and closing 'Emotion' clocking in at around the six minute mark. Fine if they were brimful of invention, but Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo and Thomas Bangalter's creativity levels these days are perilously low.

LCD Soundsystem's recent single, 'Daft Punk Is Playing At My House', is really, really good.
Sadly, the same can't be said of the Parisian dance duo who inspired it.
The follow-up to 2001's hugely successful Discovery‚ Human After All displays non of its predecessor's pop nous – or brevity, with the likes of the title-track and closing 'Emotion' clocking in at around the six minute mark.
Fine if they were brimful of invention, but Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo and Thomas Bangalter's creativity levels these days are perilously low.
Even the album's highlights, 'Brainwasher' and first single, 'Robot Rock', are second-rate compared to such past glories such as 'Da Funk' and 'One More Time'.
Elsewhere, the rocky 'Television Rules The Nation' veers dangerously close to self-parody, while 'The Brainwasher' overdoses on its mad acid swirls and 'Technologies' is Gallic-house-by-numbers.
The really depressing thing is that you know Daft Punk are capable of much, much better.