The residency marks a return to familiar ground for the band, who played a sold-out six-night run at Brixton in 2022. This time around, all eight dates sold out swiftly, confirming the band’s enduring appeal.

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Opening the show with ‘You Wanted A Hit’, frontman James Murphy addressed the crowd: “We played here a few years ago and we really liked it. Now we’re back, and we really appreciate that you came to see us. We don’t take it for granted.” Mid-set, Murphy explained the band’s choice to return to Brixton instead of opting for a larger venue: “We like to play in rooms that have some character and some love in them”.

The beloved dance-punk revival band were formed in Brooklyn, New York in 2002 by James Murphy and are signed to his own DFA Records label. Their sound fuses punk attitude with dance-floor rhythms, earning them critical acclaim and a Grammy for Best Dance Recording in 2018 for ‘tonite’. Their live performances are known for sonic complexity, with a line-up featuring guitars, bass, drums, synthesizers, pianos, and a variety of percussion instruments.

Backed by a nine-piece band, the 55-year-old Murphy led an electrifying two-hour set bursting with hits, including ‘I Can Change’, ‘All My Friends’, ‘Dance Yrself Clean’ and ‘Someone Great‘. More recent singles ‘new body rhumba’ (2022) and ‘x-ray eyes‘ (2024) also featured, as the packed venue sang along to every word.

Murphy was in typically playful form, shimmying across the stage in a neon green T-shirt, straddling monitors and delivering a tongue-in-cheek rendition of ‘New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down’, complete with faux-crooner vocal intonations and a dramatic tempo shift.

The band entered the stage to The Beach Boys’ ‘Good Vibrations’, a touching tribute to the late Brian Wilson, whose passing was announced the previous day. During the intermission, they exited to Sly & The Family Stone’s ‘Hot Fun in the Summertime’, in homage to Sly Stone, who also recently passed away. Our recent coverage on the death of Brian Wilson can be read here.

LCD Soundsystem – Brixton Academy Setlist (2025)

1. You Wanted A Hit
2. Tribulations
3. Movement
4. Yr City’s a Sucker
5. I Can Change
6. Time to Get Away
7. Other Voices
8. Oh Baby
9. Get Innocuous!
10. new body rhumba
11. Someone Great
12. Home

Encore:

1. North American Scum
2. tonite
3. x-ray eyes
4. New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down
5. All My Friends

Our coverage on the announcement of LCD Soundsystem’s 2025 residency can be read here.

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Tickets go on general sale at 9:00am on Friday, March 7, available here. 

The official show dates are:

Thursday, June 12

Friday, June 13

Saturday, June 14

Sunday, June 15

Thursday, June 19

Friday, June 20

Saturday, June 21

Sunday, June 22

The announcement follows a series of teasers broadcasted across London earlier this week; projections stating ‘You are here (again).’ were spotted across notable locations, including Shoreditch’s High Street Overground station. The phrase refers to the band’s ’You Are Here’ tour, a 2024 fall residency at the Knockdown Center, New York City. 

LCD Soundsystem’s UK show dates have been highly anticipated for a while now; the band have previously sold out a six-night residency at the same music venue in 2022. Murphy and co. last performed on this side of the pond at last year’s Glastonbury and All Points East festivals. Now, fans can look forward to an extended set list from the band at an estimated 4500 capacity per night. 

Murphy’s musical outfit are also set to embark on a US headline tour this spring, before making eagerly awaited appearances at both Primevera Sound, Barcelona and We Love Green, Paris festivals, June 4-8 and 6-8 respectively. In a press release for the former, the band revealed an up-coming album in 2025. This follows the release of new single ‘X-Ray Eyes’ late last year – the first taste of LCD Soundsystem’s forthcoming material. However, Murphy still leaves the official release date up to the imagination of the listeners, saying: “So there’s a new LCD song called ‘X-Ray Eyes’. It’s the first single of what’s shaping up to be a new LCD Soundsystem album. Don’t ask me when that is, because we are still working on it. But it feels very good to be putting out new music.” 

In 2022, Murphy revealed the reasons behind the band’s preference for residencies over bigger shows via a lengthy Facebook post. He mentioned that this format suits the group better since they can prioritise recording new material. The frontman stated, “There’s a thing with tour, also, where you invest so much time, energy, and cost into “getting ready” that you wind up touring for ages just to make it worthwhile…[residencies] and maybe we’ll do something like that every year. Just stay in shape, if that makes sense. And just make records along the way.”

Known for alternative rock/electronic classics such as ‘Dance Yrself Clean’ (2010) and ‘All My Friends’ (2007), LCD Soundsystem is the creative outlet for frontman James Murphy, accompanied by his array of musicians, producing an entirely unique Grammy Award-winning sound. Forming in 2002, the band have released five studio albums to date via DFA Records (of which Murphy is co-founder), including the critically acclaimed self-titled debut LP in 2005. Their last album ‘American Dream’ (2017) received a nomination for Best Alternative Music Album at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards, its featured single ‘Tonite’ winning Best Dance Recording, a remarkable quindecennial mark of their career. 

See below for the set list that gig-goers can expect at the 2025 London ‘You Are Here’ shows:

1. Get Innocuous!
2. I Can Change
3. You Wanted a Hit
4. Tribulations
5. Daft Punk Is Playing at My House
6. Thrills
7. Tonite
8. Movement
9. Other Voices
10. On Repeat 
11. Someone Great
12. Losing My Edge
13. Home 

Encore:

14. Yr City’s a Sucker

15. New York, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down

16. Dance Yrself Clean

17. All My Friends 

For ticket purchases and more information, visit LCD Soundsystem’s official website. 

‘GIFT HORSE’ diverges from the album’s previous releases, embodying a lean and taut intensity delivered in the unmistakable style of frontman Joe Talbot. Directed by David Helman, the music video for ‘GIFT HORSE’ accompanies the single’s release, offering fans a visual journey into the raw and thought-provoking world of IDLES. The video features a distorted and dystopian, yet slightly familiar, day within a supermarket. Talbot comments, “Look at us go! Music and movement for you and yours. Be bold and ride us like the disco donkeys we are.”

The release of ‘GIFT HORSE’ comes on the heels of IDLES’ eagerly awaited comeback in October, marked by the debut single from ‘TANGK,’ titled ‘DANCER,’ featuring contributions from James Murphy and Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem. In December, IDLES released another single, ‘GRACE,’ a slower and more soulful song exploring themes of redemption and introspection, adding another layer to the ‘TANGK’ repertoire.

The band recently unveiled an extensive tour schedule, spanning North America in May, June, and September, and the UK in July, November, and December. A substantial number of these upcoming shows have already sold out, some nearly a year in advance, but for those eager to secure a spot, tickets are available here.

To coincide with the album release, IDLES has expanded their tour schedule to include three intimate outstore shows in London and Bristol. The band will be taking the stage at Pryzm in Kingston, London on February 15, Electric Brixton in London on February 16, and playing a hometown show at the Marble Factory in Bristol on February 17. Tickets for the shows sold out within hours of release, a further testament to the growing IDLES fanbase.

‘TANGK,’ pronounced as “tank,” is promised to follow in the footsteps of their previous album ‘CRAWLER,’ which earned them two Grammy nominations. Fans and newcomers alike can mark February 16 on their calendars as IDLES prepares to unleash ‘TANGK,’ with a diverse production team and a series of powerful singles leading the way, fans can expect an album that pushes the boundaries of rock while staying true to the band’s unapologetic ethos.

Fans spotted a sponsored post across social media sites that indicated that the band were ready to tour the country. The post reads, “Back in the UK, 2024. Pre-sale sign up now live.”. The group last released music in 2022, with a song called ‘New Body Rhumba’. Their last full-length album came five years before in 2017, with American Dream.

LCD Soundsystem is comprised of mostly only James Murphy when recording music inside the studio but have toured as an extensive band since the group’s inception in 2002. LCD Soundsystem released their debut self-titled album in 2005, followed up two years later with the highly acclaimed, Sound of Silver in 2007. The group then released This Is Happening in 2010 before putting the project on hiatus, coming back in 2017 to release American Dream.

The band are currently playing across New York for there annual residency in the area. The band’s tour which they called the ‘Tri Boro Tour’, includes 4 shows at the Brooklyn Steel, 5 shows in Manhattan’s Terminal 5 and 3 shows in Queen’ Knockdown Centre. The band will also be playing follow-up shows in San Francisco on December 30^th and 31^st.

When asked about the band’s future plans earlier this year, frontman James Murphy said: “We’re trying to just be a band, play music and play in cities that we like that want to see us. We’re gonna be a normal band in 2023. You know, make some music, put some music out, and hopefully play some more shows. Nothing crazy. I’m not gonna hole up in a stadium.”

LCD Soundsystem will be featuring on the next IDLES album, TANGK, where members James Murphy and Nancy Whang contribute backing vocals for the track, ‘Dancer’. The Bristol-based band were joined by LCD Soundsystem for the last song of their set at a Re:SET show in Chicago on June 25. IDLES Frontman Joe Talbot said: “OK, I want to make this very clear. We are forever humbled and very grateful to share a stage with LCD Soundsystem, I’m also humbled by the fact I get to sing an anti-fascist song to people with open minds and hearts. Thank you for welcoming us into your beautiful country. We’ll see you very soon.”

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— lcdsoundsystem (@lcdsoundsystem) February 22, 2022

Now, the usual level of trickery seems to have found its way to London. Projections of Murphey’s record label DFA Records have been spotted popping up around Shoreditch high street and around the Tate Modern in Bankside. The projections also came with the formidable slogan “YOU ARE HERE”, probably in reference to LCD’s breakout hit Losing My Edge and its borderline judgmental repetition of “I was there”. The fact that this is the DFA logo and not any kind of LCD specific symbolism could mean any number of things though. Perhaps a London date of the DFA 20^th anniversary party. With appearances from 2manydjs, Black Dice (Live), Black Meteoric Star (live), James Murphy, JDH + Dave P, Juan MacLean, Justin Miller, and a load of other DFA alum, I wouldn’t mind a London date. But as of yet, nothing has been confirmed about what these teasers are actually leading towards. Watch this space.

If, like me, you are in fact living in England, and can’t quite afford a ticket to the states for a few days just to go and see LCD Soundsystem, you may have to be temporarily satisfied with their SNL appearances last week. On the John Mulaney hosted event, the band played 2 old fan favourites from their 2005 self-titled debut; “Yr City’s a Sucker” and “Thrills”. The show also confirmed the Guardian Angel status of the band after they burst onto the scene, “We’re the Guardian Angels and if you’re looking for a fight, you’ve gotta go through us!”  You can watch the pro-shot video from the show below.

https://t.co/ww5X3PzHVR pic.twitter.com/nvuueD2Q4t — lcdsoundsystem (@lcdsoundsystem) February 22, 2022

In the post Murphy writes that “I write songs all the time. […] Early in 2015, I realized I had more [songs] than I’d ever had in my life. more of them than when i went in to make any LCD record, or when I recorded tapes upon tapes of terrible things in high school.”

He then goes on to explain “I asked Pat and Nancy to come over to my apartment for coffee and told them: “I’m going to record some music. should I make up a band name, or make a “James Murphy” record, or should it be LCD?” we all thought a good amount about it. […] At any rate, they both said “let’s make an LCD record.””

However Murphy admitted that he had encountered fans who “who feel betrayed by us coming back and playing.” Adressing these fans he said: “to you I have to say: I’m seriously sorry. the only thing we can do now is get back into the studio and finish this record, and make it as fucking good as we can possibly make it.”

This comeback album will be LCD Soundsytem’s fourth studio album. The band were originally formed in 2001, and split in 2011. Since then James Murphy has worked on other projects including opening his own wine bar, appeared on Arcade Fire’s Reflektor and made music with tennis data, which you can check out below:

Visconti claimed that he and Bowie were “listening to a lot of Kendrick Lamar,” and that “We wound up with nothing like that, but we loved the fact Kendrick was so open-minded and he didn’t do a straight-up hip-hop record. He threw everything on there, and that’s exactly what we wanted to do. The goal, in many, many ways, was to avoid rock’n’roll.”

James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem also appears on the album, playing percussion on two tracks. Visconti said that initially Murphy was going to play a significant role on the album, saying: “at one point we were talking about three producers for the album: David, James and myself,” but in the end “he had his own projects to go off to.”

David Bowie’s 25th studio album ★ will be released in January, until then you can watch the full 10 minute video of tor the albums first single below: