Last night, the LCD Soundsystem documentary, Shut Up And Play The Hits, debuted at Sundance. And while the premise of the film—what happens when you decide to retire your band at the peak of popularity—has been well reported, one question that hasn’t been answered is whether or not the entire four-hour concert (which streamed live and lived for several days on YouTube before the copyright police swarmed in) would actually be released on it’s own.

Luckily the answer is yes, as was revealed in a post-screening interview with SUAPTH directors Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern along with James Murphy himself. According to Murphy:

This film isn’t the concert film. It’s a story, it’s like if it was a war movie it wouldn’t just be the battles. You’d have battle scenes and the camp, and the show is like the battle scenes but there’s a full concert that had to be separate, because it would be shitty to jam it into the movie. Who wants to watch a four hour movie of a concert plus the narrative part? But a fan would want to just see the concert, and I want to just for myself.

You can read the full interview here.

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