The rumours surrounding an impending new album from Daft Punk have been all but confirmed after a picture leaked on Twitter showing a list of 13 new songs being registered in the band’s name by their label Sony.
While there’s still no official word as to a name for the album, a date, or even its very existence, we can’t wait to see what Daft Punk come up with. In fact, we’ve gotten so excited, we’ve thought of the three things we want to see on the album, and the one we really don’t want on there.
A Theme
Both Homework and Discovery had fantastic through lines that gave the albums a theme throughout and this is something we really want to make a return with their latest record.
Human After All didn’t have anything like a strong a central connection between all the tracks, leaving the album without the narrative that let an entire film be based around Discovery and for it to make perfect sense. It may be about kidnapped aliens being forced to play music on Earth, but it still formed a cohesive whole that makes the album a joy to listen to.
Interesting Collaborations
While Daft Punk aren’t known for playing with others, we think the time’s right for them to start taking on outsiders in order to make their music expand and get even better.
Don’t take that as meaning that we want guest vocalists on all of their songs, but an interesting insertion of slightly left-field artists could be a real shot in the arm for the Parisian pair. With the news that Nile Rodgers has been working with the two, this is exactly the sort of coming together that we want.
More Orchestral Influence
Daft Punk’s brilliant soundtrack taught us a few things about Daft Punk, but the biggest of those is just how well they do with orchestral instruments and creating a much bigger sound than we’ve heard from them before.
If we can get at least some of the pomp and bravado from that film score into this new albums of theirs, then Daft Punk will be creating a truly grand album. With two of the registered tracks clocking in at over eight minutes long, we really hope that they’re going to be the ones that really offer us something larger than life.
If string sections pop up throughout the album, then we’ll be as pleased as punch.
No Dubstep
I don’t dislike dubstep, in actual fact I rather like its utter silliness, especially when it turns up in completely unexpected places like on an Imagine Dragons or Taylor Swift song. However, while Skrillex and co are off doing their thing, we don’t want Daft Punk trying to shoehorn in a fad that’s certain to fade away in the next couple of years.
We want Daft Punk being Daft Punk. We want them to start their own trends and be the artists that everyone else in the world of electronica wants to mimic.
Are you looking forward to Daft Punk’s fourth album? Let us know in the comments section below, as well as to what you’d love to see the robotic geniuses try on the record.
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