Human After All Songwriting Credits by Daft Punk

Human After All is the third studio album by Daft Punk, released in March 2005 on Virgin Records. It was recorded in approximately six weeks in late 2004, in deliberate contrast to the years-long gestation of Discovery, and produced entirely by Bangalter and de Homem-Christo as an explicitly minimal, repetitive, industrial-influenced statement that divided the critical response. The album's eight tracks are built on simple, heavily repeated riffs and filtered vocal phrases ('Robot Rock,' 'Television Rules the Nation,' 'The Brainwasher,' 'Human After All') that prioritize hypnotic groove and texture over the melodic and harmonic warmth of Discovery, in a deliberate regression from the emotional maximalism of the previous album. Bangalter and de Homem-Christo wrote and produced every track; the album was conceived as a meditation on the relationship between humans and technology, with the lyrical content (where it exists) reduced to short, repeated phrases that function more as rhythmic elements than conventional song text. The album received the most mixed critical response of any Daft Punk release, with many reviewers finding the minimal approach insufficiently developed relative to its predecessors; it has been partly rehabilitated in subsequent assessments that emphasize its importance as a live performance text, the Alive 2007 tour, which mixed Human After All material with Homework and Discovery tracks in continuously mixed mashup form, was widely regarded as one of the greatest concert performances of the decade. The Alive 2007 tour, which integrated Human After All material with Homework and Discovery tracks in continuously mixed live mashup form using a pyramid LED structure, was widely regarded as one of the greatest concert performances of the decade and substantially rehabilitated the album's critical standing among audiences who had initially been skeptical of its minimal approach.