TL;DR at bottom [quote]Daft Punk... aren't exactly anticipating that you fall in love with their new record, Random Access Memories. It doesn't sound like other Daft Punk records... because everything in electronic music sounds like knock-off Daft Punk right now.[/quote] [quote]"In Scream 2, they have this discussion about how sequels always suck," Bangalter says. In this scheme, Random Access Memories might as well be Scream 4. "The thing we can ask ourselves at some point is like: We're making music for twenty years. How many bands and acts do you have that are still making good music after twenty years? It always sucks—almost always, you know?"[/quote] [quote]"It's a big and lush and opulent '70s-disco record, glamorous in places and almost mournful in others, like something a heartbroken vacuum cleaner might drive around to at night in Detroit." The change of direction is deliberate. With the explosion and bro-ification of electronic dance music — or EDM for short — there's no shortage of music that sounds like Daft Punk.[/quote] [quote]Daft Punk's problem with modern EDM is fairly simple: it's boring and derivative. They told Billboard's Kerri Mason about their complaints with the genre... The band tried to make a new album using only computers before discovering they hated it....Daft Punk's problem with modern EDM, ultimately, rests in the constraints producers are putting on themselves by limiting their instrument to a laptop: "I think it’s mostly the tools; I think they might be missing the tools," Bengalter told Mason.[/quote] [quote]In other words: the only way to revive Daft Punk was to kill it. Viva Daft Punk. [/quote] TL;DR: Daft Punk's [i]Random Access Memories[/i] will sound nothing like older albums. Instead, they are bringing a 70's disco-feeling album instead, because the electronic genre today sounds like a bunch Daft Punk knock offs and they are bored with the genre in it's current state.