LCD Soundsystem Releases New Music For First Time Since Breakup

On Christmas Eve LCD Soundsystem issued new music for the first time since the group broke up in 2011. James Murphy and Co. recorded “Christmas Will Break Your Heart” two weeks ago during a gap in guitarist Al Doyle’s time on the road with Hot Chip. The unexpected release was accompanied by Consequence of Sound’s report the band will kick off a reunion at Coachella and Billboard reporting LCD Soundsystem will headline the inaugural Panorama Festival in New York City over the summer.

The surprise release is the surest sign yet LCD Soundsystem will soon perform for the first time since their instant classic finale at Madison Square Garden in New York City on April 2, 2011. “Christmas Will Break Your Heart” is available as a download, stream and on vinyl. Listen:

Read a note from Murphy accompanying the release of “Christmas Will Break Your Heart”:

“so, there’s been this depressing christmas song i’d been singing to myself for the past 8 years, and every year i wouldn’t remember that i wanted to make it until december, which is just too late to actually record and release a christmas song… but this year, al doyle had a short break between hot chip tours where he could be in nyc, and pat and nancy were home, and tyler agreed to fly out from berlin for a few days, so we all recorded this together, reserved a pressing plant slot, and our friend bob weston was available to master it quickly—so that means, less than 2 weeks after we recorded it, there is actually a christmas 7”, which feels like something that could only have happened a very, very long time ago.

anyway, for the holidays we give you the previous, very long run-on sentence, and this song: “christmas will break your heart”, which is another one of those songs which had about 75 lines of lyrics, though we’ve knocked down to 8 to keep the suicide rate in check.

have fun!