Update: LCD Soundsystem has shared their second new song, 'American Dream'. Like 'Call the Police,' which was released yesterday afternoon, 'American Dream' sounds like the LCD Soundsystem you'll remember from seven years ago, but with fancier production. Expect to hear at least one of them live when they appear on Saturday Night Live this weekend with host Chris Pine.
As everyone knows by now, LCD Soundsystem is not over. The band announced its completion suddenly on its own terms in 2011, and bid its fans farewell with a massive party at Madison Square Garden. While frontman James Murphy claimed then that the band would not return, LCD Soundsystem released its first new song in years around the holidays last year: a feel-good festive song called "Christmas Will Break Your Heart." A few weeks later the band announced it would be headlining Coachella, and then made its big return on Easter (such a James Murphy move) with its first show in five years at Webster Hall in New York.
After the resurrection and Coachella show, LCD Soundsystem went on one of the biggest tours of 2016. And though Murphy promised new music before the band hit the road, LCD Soundsystem never delivered.
That changed last month, when LCD Soundsystem debuted new material at a residency in Brooklyn. Murphy broke these shows into two sets: one of classic material and an encore of new stuff. If anyone in the audience wasn't a superfan who just spent premium dollars on this intimate show, they probably couldn't tell the difference.
New LCD Soundsystem is much like the old LCD Soundsystem, which isn't a bad thing. Today, the band officially shared their first new music from the upcoming album. Like it did live, "Call the Police" sounds like the band we already knew—the only difference here is that the studio version has some pretty heavy production. LCD Soundsystem is back, and after a year of getting paid a shit-ton to play their old hits, they have some expensive new tracks to showcase.
The songs, "Call the Police" and "American Dream," will be released at midnight. As for the album itself, Murphy had few specifics in a lengthy Facebook post today:
i insist that there is vinyl on the day it's released (because... well... because i'm an old person) so it will go like this: finish last mix > get to bob to master > get masters to pressing plant > plant takes X amount of time > records get to distro so that they can go to stores > record released. however long that takes = when the record will be out.
Murphy continued: "It's been one of the most enjoyable records to make in my life, if not the most fun ever (I think it is, for sure, the happiest I've ever been making a record), so it will be sad in some ways to see it leave the house etc., but we're really looking forward to not feeling 'late' all the time, and being able to do things like plan a weekend to do something fun."
