LCD Soundsystem Return With New Track, ‘New Body Rhumba’
LCD Soundsystem have shared a new track titled New Body Rhumba, their first new music in five years. The song will appear on the soundtrack to Noah Baumbach’s upcoming film adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise. The black comedy-horror stars Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig as a married couple whose idyllic life is thwarted by disaster.
James Murphy and the band announced New Body Rhumba back in August. It is the first new song from LCD Soundsystem since 2017’s American Dream. The band have a long history of collaboration with Noah Baumbach, as LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy previously scored the director’s films Greenberg and While We’re Young.
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Murphy and the band’s “comeback” record appeared six years after their supposed farewell shows at Madison Square Garden, which they captured with the 2012 documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits. They also commemorated the show with a 5xLP box set, The Long Goodbye: LCD Soundsystem Live at Madison Square Garden, in 2014. After American Dream, LCD Soundsystem re-recorded some of their material with the live band that had toured in support of the record, which became 2019’s Electric Lady Sessions.
The band has stirred toward more activity in recent months, returning to the stage for the first time since 2018 for a string of shows at Brooklyn Steel in late 2021. The last handful of scheduled shows, however, were cancelled due to a new wave of COVID-19 cases in New York.
To close out the year, they released the LCD Soundsystem Holiday Special via Amazon Prime Video. Directed by Eric Wareheim (who also starred in the role of James Murphy), it also featured Macaulay Culkin, Aparna Nancherla, Jon Daly, Christine Ko, a puppet, and others. The special opened with All My Friends, a 1990s-style sitcom starring comedians and actors portraying members of the band.
The band also performed on Saturday Night Live in February 2022.
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