LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem will release their third album This Is Happening on May 18th in the U.S. on DFA/Virgin. The songs were recorded at The Manshun in Los Angeles and the DFA studios in New York . It was written and produced by James Murphy. Additional mixes were done by Dave Sardy.

The confirmation of the title and completion of its artwork coincides with the leak of the track "Drunk Girls" and the announcement of LCD Soundsystem's shows at New York's Terminal 5 on May 20th and 21st.

This Is Happening is LCD Soundsystem's first full offering of new studio material since 2007's Sound Of Silver, which was named best album of the last decade by NPR, ranked #1 in the 2007 Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll, landed at #12 and #17 respectively in Rolling Stone and Pitchfork's best albums of the decade, and like its predecessor 2005's LCD Soundsystem received a Grammy nomination for Best Electronic/Dance Album. Sound Of Silver also featured "All My Friends," ranked #4 by Time in its Best Songs of 2007 and named single of the year by Pitchfork, and Entertainment Weekly #8 song of 2007 "Someone Great." In 2008, LCD Soundsystem contributed the track "Big Ideas" to the soundtrack of the movie 21. The band has since released the 45:33: The Remixes EP and a cover of Alan Vega's "Bye Bye Bayou," issued to commemorate Record Store Day 2009 and earning LCD its fifth NME single of the week. The album has been preceded by the March 23rd release of the soundtrack to Noah Baumbach's Greenberg, which features both composition's from James Murphy's original score for the film and the new LCD Soundsystem song "Oh You (Christmas Blues)."

The record's release will be supported by a world tour beginning with an April 16th penultimate slot at the Coachella festival in Indio CA and continuing with a run of UK/Europe headline dates and further worldwide festival appearances. YACHT and Planning To Rock will support on the UK/Euro headline dates.

Tracklisting for This Is Happening:

• Dance Yrself Clean
• Drunk Girls *
• One Touch
• All I Want
• I Can Change *
• You Wanted A Hit *
• Pow Pow
• Somebody's Calling Me *
• Home

Upcoming U.S. Tour Dates:

• April 16 Indio CA Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
• May 20 New York Terminal 5
• May 21 New York Terminal 5
• May 30 George WA Sasquatch Festival
• June 11 Manchester TN Bonnaroo Festival
• July 17 Chicago IL Pitchfork Music Festival

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