#4: Discovery - Daft Punk
"One More Time" is an all too simple urge. Just playing Daft Punk's 2001 album Discovery or its lead single "One More Time" only once was, for most, unlikely. The lead into the albums first four cheerily enriching future house anthems was uncompromising and brilliantly individual. Then it slides into Hell's bells break of "Aerodynamic," a continually trifling love song in "Digital Love," and the robotic beat blast of "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger," all made popular by the group's Interstella 5555 videos, produced two years after Discovery's release.
The album, for all it's 70's disco and LED samples, doesn't hark back to the glory days of dance music. It takes a defibrillator to it and blows it wide open. The electro pulsations of "Crescendolls," a song built on a 5-second sample loop, sound like chrome blitz, shining and beating on cheer after cheer. There in lies Discovery's greatest export --addiction. The albums glossy polish and unwavering rhythms are so enriching and enjoyable, it remains to this day one of the most fun records in memory.
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