LCD Soundsystem Share New Song "Christmas Will Break Your Heart"

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LCD Soundsystem broke up back in 2011 and have since squashed every rumor imaginable that the band would ever get back together. Today, they’ve shared a new song for Christmas. It’s called “Christmas Will Break Your Heart”. According to a note on the band’s Twitter, James Murphy had been singing this “depressing Christmas song” to himself for the past eight years, but finally got around to recording it this year. Listen to the song and read the full note below. (It can also be purchased here.)

so, there’s been this depressing christmas song i’d been singing to myself for the past 8 years, and every year i wouldn’t remember that i wanted to make it until december, which is just too late to actually record and release a christmas song… but this year, al doyle had a short break between hot chip tours where he could be in nyc, and pat and nancy were home, and tyler agreed to fly out from berlin for a few days, so we all recorded this together, reserved a pressing plant slot, and our friend bob weston was available to master it quickly—so that means, less than 2 weeks after we recorded it, there is actually a christmas 7″, which feels like something that could only have happened a very, very long time ago.

anyway, for the holidays we give you the previous, very long run-on sentence, and this song: “christmas will break your heart”, which is another one of those songs which had about 75 lines of lyrics, though we’ve knocked down to 8 to keep the suicide rate in check.

have fun!

Here’s a clip from the film documenting LCD Soundsystem’s farewell show, Shut Up and Play the Hits: