
Random Access Memories
2013
They put the drum machines away and hired session players who had made the records they grew up on. Giorgio Moroder narrates his own life.
★ 6.8

They put the drum machines away and hired session players who had made the records they grew up on. Giorgio Moroder narrates his own life.

Two sets of brothers make up the band around the singer, and his brother filmed a documentary about following them on tour.

Lorde was sixteen, recording after school in an Auckland studio, and the tracks are built from almost nothing but voice, bass and finger snaps.

They recorded part of it in Jamaica with James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem producing, and David Bowie sings on the title track.

Rostam Batmanglij pitched the vocals up and down until they sound like other people, which is why the record keeps slipping out of focus.