Despite LCD Soundsystem releasing the celebratory documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits in 2012 chronicling the end of the band and continually maintaining that the famed dance-punk outfit is now forever in the past tense, rumors have been periodically popping up stating the opposite since the New York band called it a day in 2011. Call these rumblings wishful thinking. With DFA Records’ 12-year anniversary party taking place next month in New York City, frontman James Murphy felt it was necessary to take to Facebook last night and nix any scuttlebutt that the much beloved band would be reuniting. Here’s James’ statement in its unedited entirety. Read it and weep.
pat is in the studio working on his new thing, al is on tour with hot chip and making new things as new build, tyler is off in berlin being tyler and dj’ing and making music and mixes, nancy is dj’ing in europe and working on new music with the juan and others, gavin and matt are touring and making things in the crystal ark, DSS just did that crazy beck sound and vision 360 thing, and i’m home moving furniture and cleaning up today after a stint of doing some dj’ing and producing. all in all it’s pretty good.
i fully respect and appreciate that people miss us as a band–it’s a huge compliment–but i also realize that we the band are just friends and we make things together and eat food together, and STILL ALL GO OUT AND DO THINGS, just not all together as LCD.
some come see us do our various things and say hi! it’s been so nice to get to know a bunch of really good people in a totally different context to the “big-ish band getting bigger” way we were a little stuck in.
thanks to everyone for being so amazingly supportive and nice to us.
i guess that’s my candy-assed thought for the day… now back to unpacking kitchen stuff.
-j