Fig. 1 this photograph is of the costumes for the newest album. It captures the omin ous feel of the two, while also capturing the futuristic, disco-esque feel of their music (Andwander) In the newest album,

Random Access Memories,

they try to back away from their usual approach of using samples in all their songs, to n ow having many different artists, or collaborators, play parts for them rather than using samples or drum machin es (Weiner). The album as a whole is very random and has no real theme, except t hat of being random. When asked about the title of the album, Bangalter said: "We were drawing a parallel between the brain and the hard drive

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the random way that memories are stored" (qtd. in Weiner). Which is sort of the only explanation for the ran domness of the album, it is a lot like someone reminiscing in the past and almost every song can pertain to a type of memory.

The album opens up with the song “Give Life Back to Music”, which opens with a

powerful fanfare type riff with guitar. Aft erwards it mellows out into a groovy disco-y party theme that is accompanied by a robotic auto-

tuned voice repeating the phrase “

Let the music in tonight/ Just

turn on the music/ Let the music of your life/ Give life back to music” (Daft). The

lyrics have a sort of double meaning, the first being to relax and open up your mind to really become one with the music you are about to hear. By letting in the music, they hope that the listener will in turn give life and meaning to the music produced, and possibly have you take a trip down memory lane throughout the album. The second meaning is the memory somewhat associated with this particular song, the memory of how great and meaningful music once was. Almost every artist in the 20

th

century gave heart and soul to their music and it was a passion and

devotion, they did not just do it for fortune and fame. Now not saying that there isn‟t any of that in today‟s world but

there is a lot of meaningless music. Many artists are not really putting