“We thought, ‘How does this work-humans and robots together? Do we dress up as robots?'” frontman Thomas Mars quips. After running into the pair in Los Angeles in September 2010, the two groups decided to hole up in a decrepit New York studio that fall and cobble together a one-off live experience. The collaboration was a surreal, wholly unexpected moment that came together rather easily: The members of Phoenix had known Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo since their formative years in France, and had watched the reclusive electronic duo become international stars in the early 2000s while they, in turn, made their hay at sweaty club shows. A brief medley of DP’s “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” and “Around the World” morphed into an electronically charged version of Phoenix’s “1901,” and the cameo ended with the French compatriots bowing arm-in-arm at the top of the stage as fans howled for more. That came almost two-and-a-half years ago, in October 2010, when the band capped its inaugural headlining performance at New York’s Madison Square Garden with a surprise appearance by Daft Punk. But as big as that night in the California desert will be, it won’t quite be Phoenix’s crowning glory.
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