So, yeah… as you can see: The almost three decades of Daft Punk are full with such stories and I strongly recommend you to watch the Daft Punk Unchained documentary which was released back in 2015 and which gives a great overview about their career. Inventing huge EDM tours in 20 and then ultimately moving away from that sound with the next album and touring at all? Sounds like a good plan!Įnding your career after a best selling global hit album? Oui oui! Instead of going bigger and bigger recording a raw third lo-fi album within two weeks? Sure! Having a posh sparkling second album following the rough debut album and alienating the cool underground kids? Of course! Homework became a huge success in the late 70s and now various big major pop stars want to work with them? Naaah, not in the mood. My favourite thing about Daft Punk is their stubbornness and how they refused to play by the rule bock and always took a different turn that usually saw them avoiding the comfort zone. Plenty of people have written about the influence of Daft Punk following their recent break-up, there’s no need to follow these footsteps, just read what Chris Deville wrote about their influence on pop music over at Stereogum. What else to do after Random Access Memories? The stakes were too high, failure was inevitable and maybe that’s why it was best to simply fade out with dignity. They went full circle in the end and I like to believe they knew that. They were the first electronic music band to win “Album of the year” at the Grammys with Random Access Memories, although that was technically their least electronic album.
Daft Punk have written multiple hit singles, ignited the love for electronic dance music in the hearts of many people all around the world, worked with some of contemporary’s most influential artists, created a memorable iconography everybody remembers while also influencing all different kinds of musicians. I mean, they achieved pretty much everything. I mean even now there’s not an official statement besides that clip (and an unofficial confirmation by their former publicist) – the two robots really played the whole music industry game by their own rules right till the end.
Their last album happened eight years ago and if I remember correctly the smooth two singles they put out with The Weekend back in 2015 are their last joint piece of work… so that’s quite a belated farewell, isn’t it? Maybe Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter made that decision a few years ago but simply forgot to tell the world. Am I too late for the after party? I mean it’s been almost a month since iconic French duo Daft Punk announced their split with a silent yet cinematic clip called Epilogue, ending their career after plenty of highs but also a few years of absence from the music release front.
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