Last time I wrote about Daft Punk was for ‘One More Time’. Over two years ago now. Strange ’cause I thought I wrote about a tune by them much more recently. But that’s just how time goes, I guess. And just as I thought I’d be writing more about them in times to come, it also turns out that this will be the final Daft Punk post on here. I’ve covered a grand total of six whole songs by the duo. All of which come from Discovery. Could have been seven if I liked ‘Doin’ It Right’ back then as much as I do now. But then again, I haven’t listened to ‘Harder, Better…’ in a while. There are bigger fans of the duo than me, it goes without saying. But I appreciate them, for sure. And I was bummed out just like anyone else was when they announced they were breaking up back in 2021. I maybe didn’t take it to heart as much. But I felt that sense of loss all the same.

Discovery is my favourite Daft Punk album. Not like I’m trying to say anything special with that statement. It’s a lot of people’s favourite Daft Punk record. But to me, it’s one jam after another, back to back hits. I got into the LP back in 2010 after a spontaneous recital of ‘One More Time’ by one of my schoolmate reminded me of that song’s existence. But it’s all a bit hazy as to whether I watched the Interstella 5555 visual before listening to the whole album, or vice versa. Either way, the album was heard and, at some point, today’s track was featured along the way. ‘Short Circuit’ is the 12th song on Discovery, the final instrumental on there before being followed by ‘Face to Face’ and ‘Too Long’. It arrives at a pivotal moment in Interstella, one that I can’t say because I don’t remember it all that clearly, but also because it would be a spoiler to divulge such information.

‘Short Circuit’ is a tune essentially made of two halves. The first being the put-your-hands-in-the-air party instrumental to bop your head to, with the second being the sobering come down that unexpectedly makes its way in and becomes more and more distorted as the track goes on to fool you into thinking your speakers are dying. I don’t have much else to say about this one. Looking on Spotify, it’s the least played song on the album. But it’s been one of my go-to’s probably since the first time I heard it. I really bust out the air-keyboard during the first half. I find it hard not to move to the erraticness of it all. The track was actually around during the duo’s Homework days, and there are “videos” you can find online of them performing it live when they were touring for that album. Much different than how it eventually ended up, obviously. But I like that they worked on it for inclusion on Discovery. As the last instrumental on there, it’s like they’re saying goodbye to that proper French house era of their sound. Though maybe I’m looking too much into it.