After 28 years together, the helmeted French music pair call it quits.

To everyone&rsquo;s surprise, Daft Punk are retiring from the <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/pop-punk-resurgence-music-fashion-tiktok" target="_blank">music</a> scene after almost 30 years. Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, the <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/the-coolest-french-creatives-to-follow-on-instagram" target="_blank">French</a> <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/ag-cook-pc-music-exclusive-interview-hyperpop-charli-xcx" target="_blank">electronic</a> duo who met at secondary school in Paris in 1987 and went on to form Daft Punk in 1993, announce their split in an eight-minute video titled &quot;Epilogue,&quot; in which one member explodes and the other walks off into the sunrise.

The clip opens with the pair walking in the <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/saint-laurent-summer-2021-anthony-vaccarello" target="_blank">desert</a> wearing their trademark robot helmets and leather jackets until one of them stops, removes his Daft Punk-embellished <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/winter-puffer-coat-history-style-photos" target="_blank">jacket</a> and has a switch set&nbsp;off by the other. The duo&rsquo;s track &ldquo;Touch&rdquo; from the&nbsp;2013 Random Access Memories album begins to play after the one whose switch is flipped walks away&nbsp;quickly and explodes into pieces. The <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/amine-new-album-limbo-interview" target="_blank">album</a>, which included the global hit single &ldquo;Get Lucky,&rdquo; won the Grammy <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/grammy-nominated-artists-to-know-2021" target="_blank">Award</a> for Best Album the following year. Since then, the pair&#39;s most prominent work was a collaboration with The <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/men/the-weeknd-facts-merch-lyrics-after-hours" target="_blank">Weeknd</a> on two <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/dolly-parton-songs-book-late-show" target="_blank">songs</a> from his 2016 album Starboy, including&nbsp;the title track and &ldquo;I Feel It Coming.&rdquo;

Though it&rsquo;s unclear whether Epilogue is meant to suggest that one member will continue the band solo, as it ends with one of them walking into the sunrise alone&mdash;possibly hinting to a new project in the works&mdash;Daft Punk&rsquo;s longtime publicist Kathryn Frazier has confirmed the <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/pop-culture/biggest-celebrity-breakups-2020-vanessa-hudgens-austin-butler-miley-cyrus" target="_blank">break up</a>, without disclosing any further information regarding the video&rsquo;s finale.

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French Electronic Music Duo Daft Punk Announce Split in 8-Minute Video

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