Após o premeditado funeral da banda num longo (muito longo) concerto no Madison Square Garden – documentado quer no álbum The Long Goodbye: LCD Soundsystem Live at Madison Square Garden, quer no surpreendente filme-concerto Shut Up and Play The Hits – James Murphy anunciou que os LCD Soundsystem estavam oficialmente mortos.
Mas já é da praxe reuniões de bandas supostamente defuntas e nem o influente grupo Nova-Iorquino escapa. Juntaram-se em Dezembro, gravando em duas semanas uma canção de Natal intitulada “Christmas Will Break Your Heart”, lançando-a dia 24, disponível no site da banda para ouvir ou comprar.
Será esta a primeira página no segundo capítulo dos autores de “Dance Yrself Clean”? Ou será apenas um agradável e inesperado parênteses?
O texto de James Murphy no twitter da banda sobre a canção lançada:
“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!”
