Is there a new LCD Soundsystem album on the way? Yes? No? Maybe? One thing’s for sure they’ve got a new single, “X-Ray Eyes,” which premiered on NTS Radio earlier this week which DJ Anu talked over and didn’t play in full. LCD Soundsystem have now shared the full 4:09 version on their website.
“X-Ray Eyes” feels like an early, pre-debut-album LCD song, with a bloopy synth hook over a minimal disco beat. Hearing the full version, there’s also also flute (recorder?) and, to quote The Fall, repetition repetition repetition. Most of the lyrics are just “I have eyes that can see inside” and then a whisper of the title, but then there is this this middle section: “busboy, cigarette girl, dental hygenist, or backpacking teen / newspaper seller, the nightclub MC / you’re everything, you’re all I can see / the bones in your body, the blood in your veins / your hasty decisions, your behavioral chains / replace all the cells, still something remains / but I’m losing you…sorry, what are you saying?” It’s good!
The cover art, which you can see below, is a blow-up shot of James Murphy’s pic from the back of the one album his ’80s goth band, Falling Man, released. Listen to “X-Ray Eyes” at LCD Soundsystem’s website.
LCD Soundsystem have their annual NYC holiday residency coming up at Knockdown Center, with 12 shows across three extended weekends: November 21-24 with Poolside; December 5-8 with Gustaf; and December 12-15 with Fcukers. Tickets are on sale. Before that, they have an eight-show Los Angeles residency beginning on Halloween.
