It's over. The drought has ended. It's been eight years since fans have heard a new Daft Punk studio album, and their prayers have been answered. But now that it's here, fans are already looking ahead to the future. The prospect of another eight years before we hear a follow-up to Random Access Memories is daunting to say the least. It's unfathomable. These past few months have been agonizing enough, but another eight years? Even if the French duo decides to shorten the gap between albums, it will at least be another several years until we get another masterpiece. So naturally, fans seek new ways to get their next Daft Punk fix as soon as possible.
Random Access Memories is only a day old, but fans still managed to dig up more new material in its wake. In their rummaging, they uncovered a bonus track from the Japanese version of Daft Punk's new album, which is now available for your listening pleasure over at NO BPM LIMIT.
The track, titled "Horizon," introduces a soft instrumental decked with soaring tones and spacey, melancholy keyboard licks complete with a strumming guitar foundation. The later half of the tune opens up to an airy, minimal drum track that carries the song to its close, where the sounds crescendo into a powerful finale. In an album dominated by disco chopped rhythms, "Horizon" is a breath of fresh air that the robots, for some reason or other, decided to leave off the worldwide release. Why it's only available on the Japanese version is unclear, however, Daft Punk fans in Japan are generous enough to share the bonus track with the rest of the world.
So cheer up. Random Access Memories dropped yesterday and we already have some new material to chew on. Who knows what other bonus tracks will surface from around the globe?