- If you haven't heard that Daft Punk are back with their new album Random Access Memories then you must have been living under a rock, on Mars, over the last few months. In what you might be forgiven for believing is the most anticipated album of all time, Random Access Memories sees Daft Punk reinvent themselves once more with an all-star lineup of guests.

Drip-leaked mega hit Get Lucky featuring Pharrell Williams is in some ways the worst gauge of this record and has already caused a backlash as fans of the single hear the rest of the album. RAM - as is it is appropriately abbreviated - is a bit of a masterpiece in terms of its production and delivery, channelling the sounds of 70s and 80s disco music whilst giving it the trademark Daft Punk robots from the future twist.

It is an album of many highlights, such as the nine-minutes-plus Giorgio by Moroder, to my mind the album's Stairway to Heaven. Featuring a recorded interview with Giorgio, it is a musical journey that works around the dialogue, the music cleverly interwoven with his words and a grand string section with synths and glam guitar solos takes up magnificently where his voice leaves off.

The other track featuring Pharrel Williams with Nile Rogers, Lose Yourself to Dance, is slow-drive funk recalling both Chic and P-Funk, even to the point of subsuming the vocalist to the power of the rhythm section. Instant Crush, oddly, has Julian Cassablancas so buried in vocoder that neither his ego or sex appeal can seep into the track. Beyond, however, is Daft Punk with no guests and that is a notable highlight, definitely Da Funk. Beginning like an excerpt from the two's Tron Legacy outing, grand strings descend into a slow burning love song, featuring some really AMAZING drumming; there are vocoders galore and even a slide guitar, taking the track to the border of spaghetti western territory.

Doin' it Right, featuring Animal Collective's Panda Bear, seems initially lazy. The most simplistic track on the record, it is built on an ascending and descending vocal loop and is one of only two tracks featuring drum machine as instrumentation. This is the framework to a classic yet simplistic Panda Bear vocal delivery. The album finishes with Contact featuring the legendary DJ Falcon. It is, perhaps , the closest thing to old Daft Punk on the record and, coincidentally, features a sample from Australia's own, Sherbet.

If you let me, I'd talk your ear off about this album. I am only scratching the surface, not doing it justice. Everything from the production to its marketing campaign has been executed with a stylish brilliance. The music itself is a more than welcome direction for Daft Punk who, having helped pioneer modern electronic and dance music, have captured the sounds of the pasGirot and their influence on Random Access Memories.

- Brad Armstrong.