LCD Soundsystem Plan First Album in Seven Years

Dance-rock legends LCD Soundsystem are set to release their first album since 2017 — and their second since they “retired” in 2011. The album will be out by the time the band plays Primavera Sound Barcelona in June of next year, according to a press release from the festival.

This week, the band previewed a new single, “X-Ray Eyes,” which played only on the London-based online platform NTS Radio — it has yet to hit streaming services. “I’ve got eyes that can see inside,” frontman James Murphy sings. “I can see right through your disguise/I know you’ve got nothing, nothing to hide.”

In 2022, Murphy said he was reluctant to release full albums and would focus on singles instead. “It’s not overwhelming, so I can work on new music and we can all be human beings,” he said at the time. “You stand still long enough, and it all spins back around. Dreams never end. We’ll play again. And it won’t be in, like, five years.”

LCD Soundsystem toured the U.S. earlier this year and will kick off another U.S. run on Oct. 31st in L.A. The band’s last album, 2017’s American Dream, was “a relentless, expansive, maddeningly funny set of songs asking how a lifetime of good intentions and hard work can blow up into such a mess,” as Rolling Stone’s review put it. “American Dream is 10 complex tracks in an old-school CD-sized seventy-minute electro-funk rush, stubbornly insisting that you put in time to absorb all the twists and turns.”