On May 8th Daft Punk hit SWAG OVERLOAD in their ‘Random Access Memory’ – Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter donned the Hedi Slimane for Saint Laurent custom tuxedos for CR Fashionbook. They answered a variety of questions and here is the complete collection of shots as well!

What is the essence of the album?
This album is about technology going towards humanity, in a world where humanity is going towards technology. We tried to capture robotic emotions with music, replacing this time our electronic machines by real human beings.

What was the most difficult aspect of realizing the album?
Making this album was difficult and challenging in an exciting way, but that is the nature of these empirical musical experimentations. We tried to do some things we had never done in a studio. We wanted to learn techniques we did not know. We did not want to take the easy route. But somehow, the difficult parts of the entire creative process are what made the journey really worth it.

It’s been almost 10 years since your last album. How do you think music has changed?
Everything now changes at a frantic speed. Our previous album seems to have been released a lifetime ago. We just created a timeless bubble around us for the last five years in order to create the music we wanted to listen to.

Where do you see yourselves in another 20 years?
That is classified information.