New LCD Soundsystem On the Way

American electronic rock band LCD Soundsystem have surprise dropped a new single and are preparing a new album, founder James Murphy teased on social media today (2 November).

The group released their new party single, x-ray eyes, yesterday. It's their first new song since 2022’s New Body Rhumba and the first single from their first album in eight years, so it’s an exciting time to be a fan of LCD Soundsystem.

It was also recently announced that LCD Soundsystem would perform at the 2025 Primavera Sound Music Festival. In a press release for the event, organisers hinted at the band preparing to release a new album. Here’s the exact wording:

If this is a celebration, then let’s embrace LCD Soundsystem’s All My Friends as the official anthem of Primavera Sound Barcelona 2025. Almost twenty years after giving the world this dance-rock ode to friendship, the influential band led by James Murphy will come back to the festival (and with a new album!) to make it clear that, although they are an inherent part of our best memories, their time is always now.

Taking to social media today, Murphy confirmed that a new LCD Soundsystem album is on the way, but don’t ask him when it’s coming—the band is still working on it.

Revealing that the album isn’t finished yet but is “getting closer and closer to completion,” Murphy said that anything else you hear about the album is “bullshit speculation.”

Here’s what he had to say:

so there’s a new lcd song now called x ray eyes.

it’s the first single of what’s shaping up to be a new album. don’t ask me when that is, because we’re still working on it. but it feels very good to be putting out new music. we made a small run of silkscreened 12”s that will sell at the upcoming LA and NYC shows, and dfa will have a limited grip of them, but don’t freak out if you don’t get one because there will be a more readily available commercial release of the same record when we can get it together. we just made a pile of white labels and are screening 100 at a time for each gig. it’s a short lead time thing. and it’s fun.

but, no, there’s no finished LP yet. but when we’re not playing shows, it’s getting closer and closer to completion. so that’s the news. anything else you hear is bullshit speculation.

go vote.

J

LCD Soundsystem last visited Australia in July 2017, performing at Splendour In The Grass and selling out sideshows in Melbourne and Sydney. The band was set to return in February 2018, but the tour was cancelled due to “unforeseen conflicts.”