Acclaimed French dance duo Daft Punk release live album, Daft Punk Alive
2007, which captures an euphoric Paris show on their first tour in 10 years.
Daft Punk will release their ‘Alive 2007’ live album on vinyl for the first
time. The album, originally released in the UK in 2008, was recorded at Bercy in
Paris in June 2007.
It is the second album recorded live by the duo, following Alive 1997.
Review
“Timed to perfection, Daft Punk's second live album landed exactly ten
years after the first, and provides a fitting complement to Alive 1997, easily
the best live non-DJ electronica record ever released. While the original
featured only a handful of tracks (but found them transformed and tweaked ad
infinitum), Alive 2007 is packed with productions, most of them short and many
of them getting a big crowd response (all recorded at one show in Paris in June
of 2007). As on their first two classic full-lengths, Thomas Bangalter and
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo display excellent crowd control, pacing the record
well, spacing the hits, and building the mood like the good crowd-pleasers they
are. (The visuals included in the regular and deluxe editions reveal quite the
stage show as well.) It has the feel of a greatest-hits-live concert, but
energized by Daft Punk's talents at weaving songs in and out of each other.
Even songs from the comparatively desultory Human After All sound rejuvenated in
context, with "Robot Rock” getting the show off to a rousing start. It may not
be better or stronger than the original Alive 1997, but it's definitely harder
and faster." -J.Bush