Tron: Legacy may very well be an excellent companion to a big-screen cinematic experience, and some will welcome the darker qualities of the music, but on its own it doesn't fill the six-year absence since their last full-length statement. In this regard, Daft Punk never quite break out the level of detail that would make this music stand on its own for very long. But Tron: Legacy is, first and foremost, a soundtrack and apart from select highlights like "The Crash," its transient compositions are designed to work primarily as atmospherics to the movie. ![]() The film follows the adult son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff. And though Tron: Legacy doesn't revisit the vocodered, poptastic terrain of 2005's Human After All or even 2001's Discovery, it does signal a welcome shift back into elements of their filter-house debut, 1997's Homework. TRON: Legacy, the long-awaited sequel to 1982’s TRON, was released after much fanfare and hype (especially from the Comic-Con crowd) in 2010. ![]() After all, Daft Punk had already produced a few of their own sci-fi movies (2003's Interstella 55's Electroma) for just such purposes. The closest it gets to dance territory is the brief but punchy "Derezzed" and the blooming and melodic "Tron Legacy (End Titles).When the rumour first hit the blogosphere many months ago that Daft Punk were composing a full-length soundtrack to Disney's Tron: Legacy blockbuster, the fusion of sci-fi film lore and the electronica veterans seemed like a match made in heaven. Fans expecting a rager of a soundtrack, a jam-packed CD of hits along the lines of Daft Punk's previous work - including "Around the World," "One More Time" or "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger," the latter of which fueled one of Kanye West's biggest hits - will be disappointed. Instead of changing the soundtrack game, Daft Punk played by the rules to create a solid collection of orchestral, occasionally electronic compositions that will sound fine backing up the film and its players. Now, to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of both the film and the soundtrack, the duo has shared a. But it's likely that the indie-rock and electro fans who have made Daft Punk an arena-filling band won't love this surprisingly straightforward motion picture soundtrack as much as the hype would have dictated. The project delivered 22 tracks for fans to enjoy alongside the Joseph Kosinski-directed film. When was the last time Hipster Nation was this excited about a Walt Disney Records release? It's tough to say. JON CARAMANICA, NEW YORK TIMES SOUNDTRACK: POP/ROCKĭaft Punk, "Tron Legacy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack," (Walt Disney) It's rigorously written, but Duffy sounds uncertain, spotlighting the particulars of her voice: the many crannies, the narrow backbone, the decay at the edges, the tentativeness she feels when it's unclear just how much room she has to maneuver. It's clearest on the most anguished song here, "Too Hurt to Dance," which opens with stately strings that provide form, though before long Duffy is again scratchy and a little wobbly. They also produced the album together, with Hammond bringing out a looseness in Duffy that she might not be able to bear. On "Well Well Well" they flog horn-thick disco, then switch to magisterial and prim soul on the lovely "Don't Forsake Me."Īll the songs but one here were written by Duffy with Albert Hammond Sr., a dynamo of bombast and treacle ("Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now," "To All the Girls I've Loved Before"). It's warm-sounding and more modern than her debut, helped by members of the Roots who, like Duffy, are deeply gifted at a range of simulations. Like its predecessor, "Endlessly" is a mix of been-doing-wrong ("Breath Away") and been-done-wrong ("Don't Forsake Me"), more modest than beguiling. The spilling over begins early on "Endlessly," her follow-up, with "My Boy." There's a mild disco throb in the arrangement, and Duffy's voice slips off the rails - not amateurishly, but honestly, as if she's realized that singing within very strict parameters celebrates only the parameters, not the singer. Its great to hear the teamwork of Daft Punk and. ![]() Highlights: The Son of Flynn, End Of Line, Derezzed, Solar Sailer, TRON Legacy. Starting with 'The Grid' as the 'real' Intro to this soundtrack the motives are always appear in many variations through the CD. As a mimic, a trigger of memory, she was capable, and more important, never overwhelming. This is one of the best Orchestral-Electronic-crossover-soundtrack I have ever heard. Duffy's 2008 debut, "Rockferry," was all about boundaries, displaying how neatly this fragile-sounding Welsh singer could fit into precast molds: pre-Motown soft soul, Dusty Springfield and other polite styles of decades past.
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