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Random Access Memories Studio album by  Daft Punk Released 17 May 2013 Recorded 2008–2012 Studio

• Gang (Paris)
• Electric Lady (New York City)
• Henson (Los Angeles)
• Conway (Los Angeles)
• Capitol (Hollywood)

Genre

• Disco 
• funk 
• electronic 
• soft rock 
• progressive pop

Length 74:39 Label Columbia Producer

• Thomas Bangalter
• Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

Daft Punk chronology Tron: Legacy Reconfigured
(2011) Random Access Memories
(2013) Homework (Remixes)
(2022) Singles from Random Access Memories

1. "Get Lucky"
   Released: 19 April 2013
2. "Lose Yourself to Dance"
   Released: 13 August 2013
3. "Doin' It Right"
   Released: 3 September 2013
4. "Instant Crush"
   Released: 22 November 2013
5. "Give Life Back to Music"
   Released: 31 January 2014

Random Access Memories is the fourth and final studio album by the French electronic duo Daft Punk, released on 17 May 2013 through Columbia Records. It pays tribute to late 1970s and early 1980s American music, particularly from Los Angeles. This theme is reflected in the album's packaging, as well as its promotional campaign, which included billboards, television advertisements and a web series. Recording sessions took place from 2008 to 2012 at Henson, Conway and Capitol Studios in California, Electric Lady Studios in New York City, and Gang Recording Studio in Paris, France.

Following the minimal production of their previous album, Human After All (2005), Daft Punk recruited session musicians to perform live instrumentation and limited the use of electronic instruments to drum machines, a custom-built modular synthesizer and vintage vocoders. It combines disco, progressive rock and pop, with collaborations with Giorgio Moroder, Panda Bear, Julian Casablancas, Todd Edwards, DJ Falcon, Chilly Gonzales, Nile Rodgers, Paul Williams, Nathan East and Pharrell Williams.

Random Access Memories is the only Daft Punk album to top the US Billboard 200, and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. It also topped the charts in twenty other countries. Its lead single, "Get Lucky", topped the charts in more than 30 countries and became one of the best-selling digital singles of all time. The album appeared on several year-end lists, and won in several categories at the 2014 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Best Dance/Electronica Album, and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. "Get Lucky" also won the awards for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked Random Access Memories number 295 on their list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

Critical reception

Professional ratings Aggregate scores Source Rating AnyDecentMusic? 7.9/10 Metacritic 87/100 Review scores Source Rating AllMusic The A.V. Club B+ The Daily Telegraph Entertainment Weekly A The Guardian The Independent NME 10/10 Pitchfork 8.8/10 Rolling Stone Spin 8/10

Random Access Memories received widespread critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, it has an average score of 87 based on 47 reviews, the highest of any Daft Punk album.

Q referred to it as "by some margin Daft Punk's best album in a career that's already redefined dance music at least twice. It is, in short, a mind blower." The Independent stated, "Random Access Memories breathes life into the safe music that dominates today's charts, with its sheer ambition ... It's an exciting journey, and one that, for all its musical twists and turns, has its feet planted on the dancefloor." Melissa Maerz of Entertainment Weekly called it "a headphones album in an age of radio singles; a bravura live performance that stands out against pro forma knob-twiddling; a jazzy disco attack on the basic house beat; a full collaboration at a time when the superstar DJ stands alone." She concluded her review by saying that "if EDM is turning humans into robots, Daft Punk are working hard to make robot pop feel human again."

Several critics commented on the variety of content on the album. NME said, "There's a creeping notion that every musical idea that's ever been so much as thought up is on this album." In addition, Random Access Memories is ranked No. 497 on NME's list, "The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time". Mark Richardson of Pitchfork echoed this sentiment, calling the record "a mix of disco, soft rock, and prog-pop, along with some Broadway-style pop bombast and even a few pinches of their squelching stadium-dance aesthetic". Richardson praised the engineering and recording on the album, but did say that "though everything about RAM, from the session musicians to the guests to the means of production, is meant to sound more 'human,' the album at points sounds more sterile, almost too perfect." Pitchfork named the album the seventh-best of 2013.

DJ Magazine commented on the shift in Daft Punk's musical style: "While Daft Punk clearly want to move on and evolve, ditching the electronic beats, house and techno that first elevated them to fame, it's that music that forms the bedrock of their best tunes, and still, that's what they're best at making." Resident Advisor stated that "it's an album rooted in a now-ancient aesthetic: '70s staples, like crisply recorded California studio music, or the kind of deceptively sophisticated New York disco that Nile Rogers, one of the album's key guest artists, popularized with Chic." In a five-star review, Heather Phares of AllMusic said that the record "taps into the wonder and excitement" of music from the 1970s and early 1980s. Phares concluded her review by saying, "Random Access Memories is also Daft Punk's most personal work, and richly rewarding for listeners willing to spend time with it."

Aaron Payne of musicOMH wrote, "Daft Punk somehow misplace the wit and the light touch that's pretty much their trademark. Instead, these long epics become somewhat tedious and there is a strong whiff of egoism and self-indulgence ... At over 70 minutes, the album feels rather bloated. Quite a few of the songs are too long, or too empty of ideas, or too willing to repeat themselves, or too willing to play to type". Dan Weiss of Paste noted that "none of the admittedly eclectic pilferings of Random Access Memories challenge or defy anything. They all evoke specific eras of film soundtrack or disco trend. The beats have grown less, not more, complex over time." In 2021, Pitchfork included Random Access Memories on its list of review scores they "would change if they could", adjusting its score from 8.8 out of 10 to 6.8. The Pitchfork critic Philip Sherburne wrote that it "doesn't feel pivotal in the same way that Discovery did" and "didn't push pop music forward".

Random Access Memories received Grammy Awards for Album of the Year, Best Dance/Electronica Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. The lead single, "Get Lucky", also won for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. "Get Lucky" had previously been nominated for Best Song of the Summer at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards and Best Song at the 2013 MTV Europe Music Awards. In January 2015, the album was placed at number 9 on Billboard's list of "The 20 Best Albums of 2010s (so far)". In 2020, the album was ranked at 65 on the 100 Best Albums of the 21st Century list of Stacker.

Track listing

Random Access Memories track listing No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Give Life Back to Music"

• Thomas Bangalter 
• Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo 
• Paul Jackson, Jr.
• Nile Rodgers

4:34 2. "The Game of Love"

• Bangalter
• de Homem-Christo

5:22 3. "Giorgio by Moroder"

• Bangalter
• de Homem-Christo 
• Giovanni Giorgio Moroder

9:04 4. "Within"

• Bangalter 
• Jason "Chilly Gonzales" Beck 
• de Homem-Christo

3:48 5. "Instant Crush" (featuring Julian Casablancas)

• Bangalter 
• Julian Casablancas 
• de Homem-Christo

5:37 6. "Lose Yourself to Dance" (featuring Pharrell Williams)

• Bangalter
• de Homem-Christo 
• Rodgers 
• Pharrell Williams

5:53 7. "Touch" (featuring Paul Williams)

• Bangalter 
• Christopher Paul Caswell 
• de Homem-Christo 
• Paul Williams Jr.

8:19 8. "Get Lucky" (featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers)

• Bangalter
• de Homem-Christo 
• Rodgers 
• Pharrell Williams

6:09 9. "Beyond"

• Bangalter 
• Caswell
• de Homem-Christo 
• Paul Williams Jr.

4:50 10. "Motherboard"

• Bangalter
• de Homem-Christo

5:41 11. "Fragments of Time" (featuring Todd Edwards)

• Bangalter
• de Homem-Christo 
• Todd Imperatrice

4:39 12. "Doin' It Right" (featuring Panda Bear)

• Bangalter
• de Homem-Christo 
• Noah Lennox

4:11 13. "Contact"

• Bangalter
• de Homem-Christo 
• Stéphane Quême 
• Garth Porter 
• Tony Mitchell 
• Daryl Braithwaite

6:23 Total length: 74:28