Loose polyrhythmic grooves function as grounding armatures for a heated discussion between distorted guitars, glitchy electronica, bursts of scrambled dialogue and other scary textures. As much rock as jazz, everything teeters on the edge of crashing, clanking chaos, yet order somehow prevails. Bracing stuff.
Shortly before sunset on Monday night dozens of guests made their way up to the top of the Shard for the UK launch of Daft Punk's latest album, Random Access Memories. Everything about Daft Punk's fourth album stands out from the rest of the modern industry like the Shard does from the London skyline: bold, divisive, unfeasibly big and impossible to ignore. So Goooood