An email sent to Nish, regarding the latest Daft Punk album.

Josh Petersel <peterselj@gmail.com> Wed, May 15, 2013 at 6:54 PM
Reply-To: peterselj@gmail.com
To: Nishant Lalwani <[redacted]@gmail.com>

I have more thoughts than I could properly articulate via cell phone email. But here’s the core:
1) victim of impossible hype.
2) the album doesn’t even have to be great. All DP (and perhaps just as importantly, the infinity of beat makers
and DJs) really needed was a base of fresh material to mix in to other work. As underwhelmed as the album
proper was, just wait until you hear transcendent mashups across other work. I think from that perspective, a
modest modern success.
That all said….god how i wish they would’ve been able to recapture the magic of Digital Love.

A week later: Daft Punk — themselves — plan to remix Random Access Memories.

I hate it when my cell phone’s autocorrect makes it look like I can’t grammar. But I love it when I’m right.