“Digital Love” by Daft Punk

"Digital Love" was the third single Daft Punk pulled from Discovery, their second album, in 2001, and it finds the French duo at their most lovesick. Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo built it on a sample of George Duke's 1979 song "I Love You More", whose unresolved chords, as their collaborator Chilly Gonzales pointed out, leave the whole thing aching with longing. DJ Sneak wrote the words, a story of love that never gets said out loud, and Daft Punk sing it themselves.

The bridge leans on a Wurlitzer electronic piano the pair likened to Supertramp, then comes a guitar solo pieced together from assorted parts with sequencers, because nobody put solos in songs anymore and they wanted some. It climbed to number 14 in the UK, and its video later became part of the anime film Interstella 5555.

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