At least , that ’s the provocative argument over at Vice ’s Motherboard , where Brian Merchant argue that Daft Punk are good at creating a skill - fictional mythos than they are at making great pop music .
Writes Merchant :
Daft Punk ’s greatest trick was n’t pulling warped tune out of vocoders . It was metamorphose two good - than - mean Gallic DJs into cheeky interstellar raver . Not since David Bowie has a popular act re - appropriated sci - fi image to such heap delight . The kitchen sink sci - fi schtick was surely implemental in paving the way for the careen kidskin to get into Daft Punk in the first place ( that and James Murphy , before he lose his sharpness ) . It give a generation of sexually defeated teen and college child , reared on an teenage dieting of Star Wars and Transformers , a big burnished entry stage into the earthly concern of dancing music .
Read the whole pieceover at Motherboard .
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