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We'll examine that track along with a handful of others as we continue our exploration through Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, next time on Dissect.

From the Ringer Podcast Network, this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short, digestible episodes.

Today, we continue our season dedicated to Daft Punk's entire catalog with a deep dive into Human After All and the Alive 2007 tour.

I'm your host, Cole Kushner.

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Last time on Dissect, we completed our analysis of Daft Punk's Discovery, a project universally recognized today as one of the most important albums of the 21st century.

It's a record that reimagined electronic music by collapsing entire musical worlds into one, pulling from rock, classical, pop, and disco, and in doing so, expanded what dance music could be.

However, the way we view Discovery today was not exactly the way it was received back in March of 2001.

One More Time had dropped a few months prior and, despite its commercial success, its pop accessibility and heavy use of autotune left fans of Homework skeptical of where the duo might be heading, dreading the possibility that Daft Punk were selling out, both themselves and house music writ large.

And then Discovery drops just a few months later and it's not an album full of One More Times, but it's not Homework either.

And so, like many forward-thinking works of art, its reception, while mostly positive, fell short of the universal acclaim it enjoys today.