Daft Punk have marked five years since their split with a new video for their 2005 single ‘Human After All’ – check it out below.
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Five years ago, the French house icons shared a video announcing they were disbanding. Although the electronic duo – made up of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo – is still currently defunct, they have looked back to their time together with new visuals for ‘Human After All’
Featuring footage from their 2006 sci-fi film Electroma, the new video sees them driving through the desert and eventually driving through a tranquil town. As they observe people socialising on a sunny day, they eventually spot that each one of them is wearing a helmet.
Daft Punk confirmed their break-up after a career spanning over 28 years in 2021. In recent years, both members have touched on the necessity of a breakup, with Bangalter admitting he was “relieved” over the way that the band ended.
“The question I ask more myself is why we did end it rather than how it could last for so long,” he said. “It’s a lot like a story or mini saga – sometimes there’s a TV show that has a special place in people’s hearts and it keeps that place, and it runs for one, two, three, four, five, sometimes 10 seasons.”
Last autumn, Daft Punk collaborated with Fortnite and also released a collection of ‘Human After All’ remixes on vinyl to celebrate the album’s 20th anniversary.
Among the artists who reworked the songs were Justice, Soulwax, SebastiAN, Basement Jaxx and The Juan Maclean. It was the band’s third full-length LP overall, and wasn’t followed up until nearly a decade later with 2013’s ‘Random Access Memories’ – what would become Daft Punk’s final album ever.
More recently, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo co-wrote a song on Rosalía‘s latest album, ‘LUX’. The musician and producer helped work on ‘Reliquia’, the second song on record’s tracklist, and was credited as a “composer and songwriter” of original material.
