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Article: CD REVIEWS
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- December 8, 2007
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DAFT PUNK
"Alive 2007" (Virgin)
Electronic dance music is like soccer: absolutely massive in the
rest of the world, and still stuck in a niche in the U.S.A. But with
homages like LCD Soundsystem's "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House"
and Kanye West's "Stronger," which is built on the foundation of
Daft Punk's "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger," the French duo of
Guy Manuel de Homem Christo and Thomas Bangalter would seem to be
poised for a major breakthrough. Whether or not that actually
occurs for the knob-twiddling duo, it isn't for lack of trying.
"Alive 2007" is a crazily kinetic live album that's missing only the
artificial stimulants and the jacked-up light show.
-- Dan DeLuca, ...