It’s been nine months since James Murphy and team LCD headed back to NYC after a summer spent wiling out in the Hollywood Hills to record the next LCD Soundsystem album as well as some tunes for the upcoming Noah Baumbach film, Greenberg.
Now it’s finally time for both projects to see the light of day, with the Greenberg soundtrack set to drop March 23, while the third LCD Soundsystem album will be out shortly after.
Murphy described the inspiration for Greenberg soundtrack to Pitchfork as:
I started making little songs. I have this quick, Los Angeles home studio, rock star recording style. It’s just two really nice ribbon mics on the drum kit and a little tube mixer. The rules were like: Nilsson’s house, Brian Wilson’s house, Paul McCartney’s house, 1973. I would bring Noah these demos and he really liked them and they made sense with the movie.
He also discusses the status of the next LCD Soundsystem album:
There are two songs the label is pretty focused on– “Drunk Girls” and “I Can Change”. They’re both pretty different from one another. Those are the only things they can use really; the album is nine songs and 65 minutes long, which is somewhat embarrassing. “Drunk Girls” is about drunk people and fun things and the fact that all of the boys of the L.A. mansion we recorded at were called “the girls” by our chef. We were the ladies of the mansion.
A clip from Greenberg recently surfaced, with star Ben Stiller, who plays a failed rock star, talking to some of “the kids.” There’s no Murphy music in the clip, but it clearly ties into the themes of aging that have been Murphy’s main muse since the very first LCD single, “Losing My Edge.”
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