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Around, inside and at the very heart of the musicality of the most beloved French band of all time, Sébastien Lebray’s book is a precious analytical tool. With Daft Punk and the Legacy Album, Lebray reveals many secrets behind the making of Daft Punk’s last album, including how the music has played with codes of DJ culture from the past and present to produce the music of today. * Guillaume Gilles, Musician and Musicologist, Paris 8 University, France * A welcome addition to the slowly (but surely) growing body of academic literature on the band who reconciled, in Laurent Garnier’s terms, rock and house music. Two decades after Martin James’s seminal French Connections, Sébastien Lebray uses an innovative approach combining musical analysis with spectrograms to explain how Daft Punk’s final album contributed to the reinvention of electronic music in the early 2010s – a music that was locked, back then, in “digital habits.” * Olivier Julien, Associate Professor of Popular Music, Sorbonne University, France * Daft Punk and the Legacy Album provides an in-depth and comprehensive examination of Random Access Memories that demonstrates the album’s and Daft Punk’s significant contribution to the structural and cultural elevation of electronic dance music in particular and popular music in general. * Ciro Scotto, Professor of Music Theory, Ohio University, USA *

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Sébastien Lebray teaches popular music history, electronic music, music theory and analysis at the University of Strasbourg, France, where he also received his doctorate in musicology. His research concentrates on popular music and ‘DJ culture,’ with a focus on compositional processes, technologies of creation and musical analysis.

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