LCD Soundsystem Release New Single ‘X-Ray Eyes’ — But Only on the Radio

Listeners who tuned into the NTS Radio show Soup to Nuts w/ Anu this afternoon were the first to hear LCD Soundsystem‘s new single “X-Ray Eyes” — and unless others are interested in digging through the show’s broadcast archive, they’ll be the only ones to have heard it. For the time being, the record is not available on any streaming services or available to purchase digitally.

“X-Ray Eyes” premiered around 20 minutes into the program, which broadcasts out of London. The track features one verse, on which frontman James Murphy sings: “Every busboy, cigarette girl/Dental hygienist or backpacking teen/Newspaper seller, and the nightclub MC/You’re everything, you’re all I can see/The bones in your body, the blood in your veins/Your hasty decisions and behavioral chains.”

The rest of the song is filled with the warping sounds of its chorus — “I’ve got eyes that can see inside/I’ve got eyes that can see inside/I can see right through your disguise/I know you’ve got nothing, nothing to hide” — and its chanting refrain: “X-ray eyes/X-ray eyes/X-ray eyes/X-ray eyes.”

LCD Soundsystem last released a proper single in 2022, with “New Body Rhumba” appearing on the soundtrack for the film White Noise. That release marked the group’s first in five years, following their 2017 comeback album American Dream.

Recenly, LCD Soundsystem have been vocal about wanting to reel in their schedule, both on the road and in the studio. In 2022, Murphy said on social media that the group would continue to release one-off singles as a means of avoiding “album panic” and likely won’t set major plans for any widespread touring.

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“It’s not overwhelming, so I can work on new music and we can all be human beings,” he said at the time. “You stand still long enough, and it all spins back around. Dreams never end. We’ll play again. And it won’t be in, like, five years.”

Earlier this year, they completed a 14-date North American tour.