“Fragments Of Time” by Daft Punk

"Fragments of Time" is the 11th track on Random Access Memories, the 2013 album for which Daft Punk went chasing a west coast vibe, and it hands the microphone to Todd Edwards, the American musician who had already worked with the French duo on "Face to Face" from Discovery. Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo wrote and produced it with him, and he sings lead over Omar Hakim's drums, Paul Jackson Jr.'s guitar and Greg Leisz's pedal steel.

When Edwards visited the California sessions, the duo asked him to work his trademark cut-up method on part of the song. He figured it would end up as an eight-bar break; it became the chorus, and the duo were grateful, feeling the track had been short on electronics. He cut his vocal on a microphone Frank Sinatra had used, one worth more than his car.

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