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| Studio album by Daft Punk | ||||
| Released | 14 March 2005 | |||
| Recorded | 13 September – 9 November 2004 | |||
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| Genre | Dance-rock | |||
| Length | 45:38 | |||
| Label | Virgin | |||
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| AllMusic |   |
| Blender |  |
| Entertainment Weekly | C |
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| NME | 7/10 |
| Pitchfork | 4.9/10 |
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| Spin | C– |
Human After All is the third studio album by the French electronic music duo Daft Punk, released on 14 March 2005 internationally and a day later in the United States by Virgin Records. With this album, the duo took a more minimalistic and improvisational approach to their music using a mixture of guitars and electronics. A remix album, Human After All: Remixes was released exclusively in Japan. Human After All was Daft Punk's last studio album to be released by Virgin Records.
Human After All received mixed reviews from critics, who derided its minimalistic and repetitive nature and its reported six-week creation, which was particularly short compared to the production of Discovery and Homework. However, the singles "Robot Rock" and "Technologic" charted in several countries while the title track "Human After All" charted in France. The album's songs would later be incorporated into Daft Punk's Alive 2006/2007 tour which received critical acclaim.Human After All reached number one on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart, and was nominated for the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album.
Daft Punk had considered Human After All to be their favorite of the three studio albums they had released at the time, and had regarded it as "pure improvisation". An early press release stated that the record would "[retain] their trademark Daft Punk sound, this time with a more spontaneous and direct quality to the recording".Human After All's brief creation and minimal production had been decided upon beforehand as counterpoint to their previous album. As Thomas Bangalter of the duo stated, "We were definitely seduced at the time by the idea of doing the opposite of Discovery." He compared the deliberately unpolished record to "a stone that's unworked".Human After All was created primarily with two guitars, two drum machines, a vocoder and one eight-track machine. Furthermore, it was produced in two weeks and mixed in four, a session in sharp contrast to their older material.
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