(EW.com) -- Let's play one final bass-drop requiem in memory of EDM. If the genre hasn't already been wub-wub-wub'd to death, Daft Punk would like to smother it with its own spirit hoodie. True, the duo's Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo helped spawn this new wave of harder, faster, stronger dance music â€” but lately, they've been slagging off that scene for its lack of imagination and its overreliance on preset sounds. Of course, that only makes Random Access Memories, their first proper album in eight years, feel more like a revelation: It features no electronics except for a modular synthesizer and some vintage vocoders, and uses only one sample. (A snippet from the Sherbs' ''We Ride Tonight'' opens the final track, ''Contact.'')
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Random Access Memories is the duo's "first proper album in eight years"
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It was recorded with an orchestra, a children's choir, and an all-star cast
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Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo comprise the duo
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