LCD Soundsystem is getting back together and releasing a new album. James Murphy, the band’s front man, officially confirmed the rumors in a long blog post on the LCD Soundsystem website. Murphy also confirmed that band will not only be going around the festival circuit but on tour as well. The band is currently planning on headlining at least one New York City concert sometime in 2016.
“There were our choices,” Murphy writes. “1. Make music with your friends and call it something else, which seems hilarious (Everteen) or egomaniacal to the point of sociopathic (James Murphy solo record). 2. Make music, but willfully exclude your friends because of the horrors in option 1. 3. Make an LCD record with your friends, who want to make said record, and deal with whatever fall-out together. 4. Don’t make music, to avoid the horrors of all of the above. 5. Make music and, like, hide it somewhere.”
The band seemingly decided on the best option for everyone involved: No. 3.
Earlier in the blog post, Murphy described how conflicted he felt about recording new music in the years since the band’s self-imposed funeral in Madison Square Garden, as piles and piles of potential song titles, lyrics and melody snippets collected in his notes.
It was only after recently meeting with Nancy Wong and Pat Mahoney that Murphy realized that LCD Soundsystem’s other band members were all-in to create a new record as well, and the wheels of destiny started turning.
“We’ve always talked about how we’d never betray anyone who cares about us, but here we are now,” Murphy writes. “Given the chance again to make new music with the people I care about, and who have given a big part of their lives to doing this weird thing together, and who wanted to do it again, I took it. And in doing so, I betrayed whoever feels betrayed by that action.”
Of course, despite Murphy’s artistic musings, AEG Live’s multi-million dollar offer to headline Coachella and FYF Fest probably played its own small role in shocking LCD Soundsystem out of retirement.
