LCD Soundsystem Sets LP Release Date

As yet untitled album arrives in May, to be preceded (and followed) by a tour.

By Blurt Staff

LCD Soundsystem hasn't named its new album, the third one, but a date has been set already: May 18, via DFA/Virgin. Written/produced, as usual, by James Murphy, it was recorded at The Manshun in Los Angeles and the DFA  studios in New York and mixed at DFA from April 2009 through February 2010. Full tracklisting below.

Some random stats for ya: The new album is LCD Soundsystem's  first full offering of new studio material since 2007's Sound Of  Silver, which was named best album of the last decade by NPR, ranked #1 in the 2007 Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll, landed at #12 and #17 respectively in Rolling Stone and Pitchfork's best albums of the decade, and like its predecessor 2005's  LCD Soundsystem received a Grammy nomination for Best Electronic/Dance  Album. Sound Of Silver also featured "All My Friends," ranked #4 by Time in its Best Songs of 2007 and named single of the year by Pitchfork, and Entertainment Weekly #8 song of 2007 "Someone Great." In 2008, LCD Soundsystem contributed the track "Big Ideas" to the soundtrack of the movie 21. The band has since released the 45:33: The Remixes EP and a cover of Alan Vega's "Bye Bye Bayou," issued to commemorate Record Store Day 2009 and earning LCD its fifth NME single of the week. The album will be preceded by the March 23 release of the soundtrack to Noah Baumbach's  Greenberg, which features both composition's from James Murphy's  original score for the film and the new LCD Soundsystem song "Oh You  (Christmas Blues)."

 
The record's release will be supported by a world tour beginning with an April 16 penultimate slot at the Coachella festival in Indio CA and continuing with a run  of UK/Europe headline  dates (several of which have sold out well in advance and necessitated added  dates) and further worldwide festival appearances. For a full itinerary, see below.

Tracklisting:

 Dance Yrself Clean
 Drunk Girls  
 One Touch
 All I Want
 Change
 Hit  
 Pow Pow
 Somebody's Calling Me
 What You  Need

Tour Dates:
 
 April 16    Indio CA     Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
 April 20     Dublin       Tripod * SOLD OUT   
 April 21    Dublin        Tripod * SOLD OUT  
 April 23     London      Brixton Academy * SOLD  OUT
 April 24    London       Brixton Academy *SOLD OUT
 April 26     Birmingham  Academy
 April 27     Leeds   Academy * SOLD OUT
 April 28     Glasgow Barrowlands
 April 29     Glasgow Barrowlands * SOLD OUT
 May 1    Manchester  Academy * SOLD OUT
 May 2    Bristol  Academy * SOLD OUT
 May 4    Amsterdam   Paradiso * SOLD OUT
 May 5    Brussels    Ancienne Belgique * SOLD OUT  
 May 6   Berlin  WMF
 May 7    Luxembourg  Den Atelier
 May 8   Paris    Bataclan * SOLD OUT   
 May 9   Paris    Bataclan
 May 30  George WA   Sasquatch  Festival
 June 11 Manchester TN   Bonnaroo  Festival
 July 10 Lisbon  Alive Festival
 July 17 Chicago  IL  Pitchfork Music Festival
 September 12    Isle  of Wight   Bestival