Daft Punk New Album 'Random Access Memories' Release May 21st: Will the latest from the EDM Duo be 'Hader, Better Faster, & Stronger'?

The French electronic duo, Daft Punk, has revealed the release date and album name for their upcoming fourth studio project! Random Access Memories, the first new album in 8 years for the "Around the World" DJ's, will be released on May 21st with the group's Daft Life imprint through Columbia Records, Billboard reports.

The album's artwork (show above) and release date were made public Saturday, when a new 15-second advertisement aired during a re-run of SNL on NBC. It featured the same unnamed song as the initial March 2 teaser, but added some robotic vocals, declaring something along the lines of "Like to get funky," says Huffington Post. This short ad also revealed that "Memories" is available for pre-order digitally at itunes.com/daftpunk and CD and Viny copies at randomaccessmemories.com.

The latest from Daft Punk members Guy Manuel de Homen-Christo and Thomas Bangalter will be a 13-track record, most likely sticking to the group's previous explorations of "technology and emotions" based upon the teaser ads and the album cover art, notes The Verge.

Rumored collaborations on Random Access Memories are said to be with Giorgio Moroder, Gonzales, and Animal Collective's Panda Bear.

As seen on Daft Punk's website, a vinyl copy available for pre-order, which is a "180 gram double vinyl gatefold," retails for $39.98 and includes a digital album download code and an LP size booklet. The CD is also available and being sold for $12.98.

The duo last released a studio album in 2005: "Human After All." Including hits like "Technologic," the album was nominated for the Grammy award for Best Electronic/Dance Album. Daft Punk's debut studio album, 1997's "Homework," also earned the French group two Grammy nominations and brought US some of it's first EDM hits like "Around the World." Daft Punk additionally put out their "Discovery" album in 2001, which was more "poppy" than their first album, but proved to be a success as "One More Time" became a Number One hit on the US Dance Play charts, states Rolling Stone. Daft Punk also released the movie soundtrack to "Tron: Legacy" in 2010.

With their thoroughly modern disco sound - a blend of house, funk, electro and techno - this French duo were one of the biggest electronic music acts of the late 1990s and 2000s, notes Rolling Stone, and now they are suiting up in their space helmets, once again, as they prep to return to the EDM scene in May 2013 with "Random Access Memories."

Will Daft Punk's new album prove to be "harder, better, faster, [&] stronger" than their last?