Still mourning the dissolution of NYC dance-punks LCD Soundsystem last February? You’re not alone – especially considering that the only news from band linchpin James Murphy has been a bit of soundtrack work and his music being ‘appropriated’ as the score for adverts. Speaking of soundtracks though, the New York Times has offered up a juicy bit of information in a recent interview with Murphy.
Details are extremely vague, but the primary singer and songwriter has told the New York paper that a “director pal” had asked him to record a cover song for an upcoming soundtrack and to “consider briefly reuniting LCD Soundsystem” to do so. He wouldn’t name the director, nor the song in question – so you can start your own betting ring for that, but, according to Murphy, the prospect of a newly-recorded cover under the LCD banner is something everyone in the band “seems to want to do.”
The article also points to several band members questioning their bandleader’s decision to split them up, drummer Pat Mahoney is quoted as saying “I agreed with many of the reasons for it… I also felt like it’s a mistake in a way.” While singer/keyboardist Nancy Whag said “I would’ve liked to have kept going… but I also would’ve liked to have kept going the way that we had been going, and that was going to be impossible.”
Murphy is instead a bit more ambivalent about the break-up, “quitting seemed funny,” he says. “It seemed insane. It seemed like: Why would anybody do it?” He’d obviously been wrestling with the decision, having dropped vague rumours of a split as far back as a year ago.
Aside from the teaser of a brief reunion, Murphy has plans to open a new store in his residential area of Brooklyn. Called House of Good, the “personal store” is intended to stock “cheap Chinese sneakers, whimsical socks [and] candy from Denmark.”
More to the point, Murphy has been playing DJ sets as well as working casually on new music in various sessions, which he describes as “making little synth songs at other people’s studios.” He remains connected to LCD Soundsystem however:
“That band was me,” he says, “even if I go make a record and it says James Murphy, it’s still me. There’s a line through that stuff that I don’t feel like it’s in my past. I will be very happy if I make a bunch more records, and 15 years from now someone asks me about LCD Soundsystem because they feel like that’s the important thing. I’ve watched too many artists in my life forget how good the things they used to do were.”
Well put James, now how about getting the band together?
