When Daft Punk announced his separation earlier this week, they did so through iconography. The duo let the world know that their entire endeavor was ending by sharing a scene from their 2006 film Electroma: Two robots wandering through the desert, one of them destroying itself and one of them wandering around the sunset. Much of this video is silent – or, in any case, silent, except for the sound of the whistling wind and the boom of the robot with light bass. Daft Punk hadn’t made a song in eight years before posting this video. It was not a separation from the band. It was the retirement of a shared person. It was the end of helmets.
