![]() ![]() Hyperion feels more meticulously crafted than Aleph, sequenced to evoke a journey not dissimilar to Daft Punk’s own pop-as-Epcot ride Random Access Memories from 2013.Įven with a decade of experience under his belt, though, Hyperion suggests that Lévy isn’t quite ready to make the professional leap that the album supposedly represents. The second Gesaffelstein album and first for Columbia, Hyperion, is Lévy’s attempt to channel the more accessible side of the robot duo, featuring futuristic pop with vocal collaborations ranging from the Weeknd and Pharrell to Haim and Toronto synth-pop duo Electric Youth (of Drive soundtrack fame). ![]() Some of the hardest-hitting Gesaffelstein material resembles a ’roided-out take on the brutalist house and hip-hop that Daft Punk explored on Homework. ![]() The aesthetic connections between Lévy and Daft Punk don’t end there for one, they’re labelmates now. He elaborated on this subtler side with his work on the Weeknd’s My Dear Melancholy, “I Was Never There” slowed a G-funk whine to a creeping slither, and “Hurt You” gave off a muted glow similar to the Weeknd’s Daft Punk collab “I Feel It Coming.” His rude and rumbling 2013 debut capitalized off his Yeezus moment (even though, technically speaking, it had been recorded two years before) with über-aggressive singles like “Pursuit” and “Hate or Glory” and moments of simmering ambient reflection that nodded to another dimension of his palette. A Gesaffelstein banger isn’t something you can simply walk away from you practically require the Jaws of Life to extricate yourself. ![]() At its most ferocious, the still-inimitable Yeezus sounded like a thousand car-crash videos auto-playing in the same browser window-precisely why Lévy’s highway-pileup sonics fit in so well. ![]()
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