Daft Punk signs with Sony/Columbia, fourth album to be released this spring
According to second largest regional newspaper in France, Le Parisien, Daft Punk have found a new home on Sony subsidiary, Columbia, leaving EMI for their upcoming fourth studio album. Following in the footsteps of Depeche Mode who also left EMI for Sony, Daft Punk is currently in the process of finalizing its contract with the US label, slating the upcoming album's worldwide release for sometime this Spring. Aside from scoring Disney's Tron, this marks their first official release since 2005's Human After All but other than their collaboration with Nile Rodgers of Chic, little else is known about the album from the two enigmatic producers.