LCD Soundsystem launch their first tune in 5 years, ‘New Physique Rhumba’
LCD Soundsystem have launched ‘New Physique Rhumba’, the band’s first new tune in 5 years.
The tune was created for the soundtrack of White Noise, an upcoming movie directed by Noah Baumbach. The Netflix title — which stars Adam Diver and Greta Gerwig — is a movie adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel of the identical title, and can characteristic music composed by Danny Elfman.
The seven-minute ‘New Physique Rhumba’ sees LCD Soundsystem enlist a shouty backing choir alongside the vocals of frontman James Murphy. The observe’s halfway reprieve later makes room for a thunderous outro, as Murphy sings of “an escape into the sky, into the celebrities”. Take heed to that under:
‘New Physique Rhumba’ marks the band’s first unique materials because the 2017 comeback album ‘American Dream’, which itself arrived after a seven-year hiatus following 2010’s ‘This Is Occurring’.
The brand new tune was introduced in August of this 12 months, when Variety reported that Netflix had recruited the band for White Noise. Previous to that, Murphy teased in March that the band can be releasing “simply singles for some time, so there isn’t some ‘album panic’”.
Regardless of the dearth of recent unique materials, LCD Soundsystem have remained lively in latest months. This 12 months alone, they’ve accomplished residencies in San Francisco, Oakland, London, Philadelphia and Boston, as a part of a sequence of mini-residencies in celebration of their twentieth anniversary. Final 12 months, they accomplished 17 reveals throughout their Brooklyn Metal residency in New York.
Extra lately, they shared a stay rendition of their festive comeback single ‘Christmas Will Break Your Coronary heart’ in 2021, and this 12 months carried out the tracks ‘Thrills’ and ‘Yr Metropolis’s A Sucker’ on Saturday Night time Stay.
Exterior of music, Murphy has scored two of Baumbach’s earlier movies: 2010’s Greenberg 2014’s Whereas We’re Younger. Having been the primary Netflix movie to ever open the Venice Movie Competition final month, White Noise will hit screens tomorrow (October 31).