Daft Punk have SPLIT: French dance music duo announce they’ve retired after 28 years
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Daft Punk have split after 28 years together.
The French electronic dance duo confirmed they’d parted ways in an emotional farewell video released on Monday, after an incredible career boasting four chart-topping albums and six Grammy wins.
The split comes eight years after Daft Punk, formed by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter in 1993, released their last album Random Access Memories, featuring the track Get Lucky which topped the charts worldwide.
It’s over! Daft Punk have split after 28 years together. The French electronic dance duo confirmed they’d parted ways in an emotional farewell video released on Monday
Following the release of the goodbye video, titled Epilogue, the band’s longtime publicist Kathryn Frazier confirmed the split to Pitchfork.com, but did not give a reason.
The clip showed the pair, famed for their robotic headpieces, walking towards one another on a barren desert.
Nodding in agreement the pair activate self-destruct buttons on their outfits and disintegrating into dust.
A title card stating 1993-2021 confirmed the end of Daft Punk as a band, with a choral version of their 2013 song Touch playing out the seven-minute video.
Since forming in Paris, Daft Punk have been one of the defining duos in dance music despite multiple breaks from the spotlight between their four albums.
Their debut release Homework in 1997 featured the chart-topping hits Around the World and Da Funk, and by the time their follow-up Discovery was released in 2001, the pair have become known for their famous robotic outfits.
One More Time and Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, which featured on their second album, turned Daft Punk into global stars, and their next album, Human After All, was released in 2005.
The subsequent years saw Daft Punk somewhat disappear from the music scene, though they played a historic set at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2006, and recorded the soundtrack for Disney’s Tron: Legacy in 2010.
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