Daft Punk's Discovery: The Future Unfurled

Daft Punk's Discovery is a record that looked into the future and liked what it saw; an album that predicted the electronic music explosion, YouTube and the end of privacy, while dragging soft rock back into vogue. Discovery was not only one of the best albums of the 2000s, it was one of the most prophetic, the kind of record that makes you wonder: how did they know?

You can draw lines from Discovery to Glass Swords, Kanye West, EDM, Autotune, iTunes, Beyonce, Guilty Pleasures, social media and more. Discovery's footprints can be found all over the modern world but it also looked back to Daft Punk's childhood, to Van Halen records, Japanese cartoons and even Johann Sebastian Bach.

Discovery was a record that confounded many fans when it was released in 2001, thanks to its blatant pop hooks and unlikely sonic bricolage. It was a record that was - and still is - widely misunderstood; Discovery's impact has only become clear with the passing of time, as Daft Punk have been proved right time and time again.

This book is a homage to a fascinating, troubled beast of an album that casts a huge shadow over the 21st Century, as Discovery reaches its 20th anniversary.

Author: Ben Cardew
Publisher: Velocity Press
Published: 10/01/2021
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781913231118

About the Author
Cardew, Ben: - Ben Cardew is a music writer with some 25 years of experience behind him. He wrote his first review in 1991, setting him on a not entirely lucrative path that would lead, eventually, to freelancing for The Guardian, Pitchfork, The Quietus, NME, Wired, Vice and many other outlets. He has interviewed everyone from Wiley to Quincy Jones and appeared on a bewildering range of TV and radio shows talking about the music industry. Ben has lived in Barcelona since 2011 and works for Radio Primavera Sound, the online radio station of the legendary Spanish festival, where he is head of programming.