Electronic techno outfit Daft Punk have here produced a collaboration with Japanese manga animator Leiji Matsumoto: a dialogue-free mini-feature accompanying, track by track, their album Discovery.
It’s a sci-fi adventure about four musicians from another galaxy kidnapped by an evil music manager. This could be projected on to a wall at a club, but actually being made to sit down and watch it in a cinema is a weird experience.
It just resembles any number of Saturday morning kids’ cartoons based on popular bands, familiar stuff like Josie and the Pussycats, or even – dare I say it? – the hated S Club movie Seeing Double. Couldn’t Daft Punk have thought of something more unusual than this?
Source: theguardian.com
