If you were building the ultimate soundtrack of 2001, where would you start? Consequence is answering that question with the debut of Year Zero, a new editorial series celebrating landmark years in pop culture.
The first installment ranks the 50 best albums of 2001, a year that gave listeners Gorillaz, The Blueprint, Vespertine and Survivor — but only one album can claim the top spot.
Even with rock favorites like Radiohead’s Amnesiac and The Strokes’ Is This It among the year’s best, neither reached No. 1.
That honor went to Daft Punk’s Discovery, a record that not only defined the duo’s career but was also sampled by artists like Kanye West and The Black Eyed Peas.
“It's as utopian as dance music gets, the crystallized perfection of its arrangements and grooves still dripping with dopamine. With the French duo donning their signature robot helmets for the first time, the project symbolized a complete departure from the underground house style they mined on Homework and brought their focus towards a glossier, grandiose, more emotionally-engaging arena,” Consequence noted.
“More so than many of the best albums of the 2000s, Discovery is truly timeless, a document of pure euphoria that summarizes 50 years of music in 60 irresistible minutes.”
Some of the album’s biggest hits include “One More Time,” “Digital Love” and “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.”
Alongside the album’s rise, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter unveiled a new persona that would become synonymous with their music: their robot helmets.
Discovery performed strongly on charts worldwide, peaking at No. 7 on Australia’s ARIA Charts, No. 23 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and appearing on at least 13 international charts. The record even returned to charts in March 2021, coinciding with its 20th anniversary and the duo’s official split.
Bangalter has said part of why he and de Homem-Christo retired the robot personas was the rapid advance of technology.
“[In Daft Punk,] we tried to use these machines to express something extremely moving that a machine cannot feel, but a human can,” Bangalter told the BBC.
“We were always on the side of humanity and not on the side of technology… As much as I love this character, the last thing I would want to be, in the world we live in, in 2023, is a robot.”
He also expressed concern about the growing influence of artificial intelligence in the creative world. Programs like ChatGPT are now producing music, art, literature and other works that can be difficult to distinguish from human-made creations.
“My concerns about the rise of artificial intelligence go beyond its use in music creation,” he said.
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