LCD Soundsystem have introduced a reside London residency for this summer season – you could find all the small print beneath.
The New York band are set to return to the capital in June for a run of eight exhibits on the O2 Academy Brixton. James Murphy and co. not too long ago teased the forthcoming stint with a collection of projections in Shoreditch.
Tickets go on normal sale at 9am GMT subsequent Friday (March 7) – you’ll be capable of purchase yours right here. An O2 Precedence pre-sale will go reside on the similar time on Wednesday (5), as will an artist pre-sale. A promoter pre-sale is scheduled for 9am GMT on Thursday (6).
LCD Soundsystem’s 2025 London residency dates are:
JUNE
12 – O2 Academy Brixton
13 – O2 Academy Brixton
14 – O2 Academy Brixton
15 – O2 Academy Brixton **
19 – O2 Academy Brixton
20 – O2 Academy Brixton
21 – O2 Academy Brixton
22 – O2 Academy Brixton **
** Sunday exhibits are early exhibits and run from 5pm-9pm
LCD accomplished a six-night residency on the O2 Academy Brixton in 2022. Their return to London this summer season will observe their headline efficiency at All Factors East 2024 in Victoria Park, and their main Pyramid Stage slot finally yr’s Glastonbury.
The group haven’t but performed any reside exhibits in 2025, having concluded their run of ‘Winter Perform’ dates in New York final December. Nevertheless, they not too long ago introduced a US headline tour for this spring forward of appearances at Primavera Sound in Barcelona and We Love Inexperienced in Paris.
In a press launch about their upcoming Primavera efficiency, it was revealed that the band can be releasing a brand new album in 2025. This got here after LCD dropped a brand new single, ‘X-Ray Eyes’, late final yr.
Murphy later shared an replace concerning the progress on the report, saying: “So there’s a brand new LCD tune referred to as ‘X-Ray Eyes’. It’s the primary single of what’s shaping as much as be a brand new LCD Soundsystem album.
“Don’t ask me when that’s, as a result of we’re nonetheless engaged on it. Nevertheless it feels excellent to be placing out new music.”
The frontman went on to reiterate that “there is no such thing as a completed LP but”, including: “However when we’re not enjoying exhibits, it’s getting nearer and nearer to completion. In order that’s the information. Anything you hear is bullshit hypothesis.”
‘X-Ray Eyes’ marked the primary new materials from LCD – apart from the standalone single ‘New Physique Rhumba’ from Noah Baumbach’s 2022 movie White Noise – since their 2017 comeback album ‘American Dream’. This LP itself ended a seven-year break following 2010’s ‘This Is Occurring’.
In 2022, Murphy shared a prolonged Fb put up explaining the band’s determination to tackle residencies fairly than greater exhibits.
NME gave LCD Soundsystem’s set at Glastonbury 2024 a glowing five-star evaluation, writing: “The packed-out Pyramid subject maintain one another tight and attain for the sky as LCD’s 10 tune masterclass naturally ends with ‘All My Pals’.
“This tune and this second are the manifestation of Glastonbury at its finest, the recollections within the making and the nice instances nonetheless to return: ‘And if the solar comes up and I nonetheless don’t wanna stagger house, then it’s the reminiscence of our betters which might be conserving us on our toes.’ That’s the way it begins.
