Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky”: Review Revue

You can finally leave all of the frustrating, cobbled-together fan-made remixes of Daft Punk‘s “Get Lucky” behind, because the song was officially released on iTunes overnight, at 12:01 a.m. (Listen to it here.) The first single from the French duo’s fourth studio album Random Access Memories (out May 21) features Pharrell Williams on vocals and the handy guitar work of the legendary Nile Rodgers.

So, all hype aside, what do the critics thing of “Get Lucky”? We scoured the Internet to get the lowdown on how various music sites weighed in on Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo‘s latest. Catch our roundup below!

:: Stereogum sounds the arrival of “Get Lucky” with this: “The endless stream of bullshit streams are behind us: Lo, Daft Punk’s Pharrell and Nile Rodgers collab ‘Get Lucky’ in all its official, sanctioned, verified, funky glory.”

:: The Guardian feels the song makes for the perfect meeting of the musical minds: “Featuring an unmistakable guitar riff from Nile Rodgers and the equally recognisable falsetto of Pharrell Williams (this is the best thing he’s been involved with for a long time, by the way), ‘Get Lucky’ eschews the crunching electronics of their last album and the vocoder-lead future-disco of Discovery in favour of lithe ‘funk grooves’ (apologies) that seem to have been transported directly from an underlit 70s dancefloor.”

:: L.A. alt rock staple KROQ offered up the following: “Featuring Pharrell Williams on lead vocals and the legendary Nile Rodgers of Chic on guitar, the song is a throwback to dance records of the ‘70s and ‘80s, when bands and ace session musicians ruled concert stages and recording studios.”

:: Pitchfork zeroes in on the song’s brightest spot: “Get Lucky’s real elegance lies in the hands of Nile Rodgers, which is no doubt the Robots’ intent. With that sprightly, ageless platinum guitar riff, ‘Get Lucky’ emulates the type of choppy lines Nile once gave to Sister Sledge’s ‘We Are Family’ thirty-plus years ago. The vocodered break from Daft Punk thrills as well, but Rodgers is the reason that ten seconds of ‘Get Lucky’ could dilate into minutes and hours of pleasure without tedium ever settling in.”

:: Billboard chimes in: “The funky track — propelled by Rodgers’ guitar work — rises into Williams’ falsetto chorus before Daft Punk’s signature vocoder sounds make their way into the bridge.”

:: Says SPIN, “Eight years after Human After All, Daft Punk’s latest might not be ‘One More Time’… one more time. But it’s far more fun than we had any right to expect.”

:: MuuMuse is calling it as a song of the summer: “Ironically, despite the feverish hype, ‘Get Lucky’ is an incredibly casual, laid-back disco groove destined to become one of the summer’s defining sounds: Gliding across a shimmering, instantly recognizable Nile Rodgers guitar riff and a light electronica pulsation courtesy of the robots, Pharrell lays on his velvety smooth, if not slightly off-key vocals across the track.”

:: The Verge calls the song “the first indication we have of whether the upcoming full-length Random Access Memories might not only mark a return to form for Daft Punk, but make albums matter again.”

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