LCD Soundsystem have a brand new music, “New Body Rhumba,” featured in Noah Baumbach’s Netflix adaptation of White Noise. “New Body Rhumba” made the Best Original Song shortlist for this yr’s Academy Awards, and James Murphy just lately talked to IndieWire about its probabilities to truly get nominated for an Oscar when the ultimate nominees are revealed subsequent week. After joking that he doesn’t really care whether or not or not they decide up a nomination, Murphy expanded:
I care as a result of I believe the movie’s nice. It’s a complicated movie for some individuals and I need them to really feel compelled to look at it. It does this bizarre factor the place it’s pretending to be an easier movie than it’s. There are moments the place you suppose you’re watching Uncle Buck and it’s really fucking insane. It’s oscillating above actuality till the top, when it absolutely escapes from actuality, with the music within the final bit. I wish to be certain individuals really feel like they should watch it to know. In years to come back, individuals will perceive how dense it’s. For that, I might like to get an award. Also, everybody within the band would discover it humorous. I’m engaged on my EGOT. I acquired a Michelin star subsequent door so it could be a MEGOT. But typically I don’t care about stuff like that.
Murphy, who beforehand collaborated with Baumbach on the soundtrack to Greenberg, was requested to supply just one music for the soundtrack, and it was at all times supposed to wrap up the film with an elaborate dance scene. Murphy stated that the choreographer for the sequence ended up utilizing considered one of LCD Soundsystem’s different songs as a information to assembling the scene.
“I didn’t know this at the time, but the choreographer used a song as a guide track that was one of my songs,” Murphy stated, whereas demurring precisely what music they used. “It’s not that hard to figure out. But we talked about using some different music beforehand, like ‘Higher Love’ and ‘Lay My Love’ by Cale and Eno. I was working on some music at this studio in Copenhagen and sending some ideas, but then the choreographer set it to a different song of mine and it was like, ‘Oh, we shot the dance scene at a different tempo.’ I was like, ‘Aw, fuck!’”
“Normally, if someone gives you a guide track, you’re like, ‘Alright, this is the tempo,’ and you figure out how you’d approach it,” Murphy continued. “But I knew how I’d approach it, because there was my song. So I had to get away from my own song. It was very strange.”
He additionally talked quite a bit in regards to the breakup and eventual reformation of LCD Soundsystem — they simply wrapped up one other residency at Brooklyn Steel in December. And he made it clear there’s no new music within the works: “I don’t have a new album now. No album panic. It’s not that I don’t want to talk about it. I’m just not in the process of it.” But he says he’d “love to make a record” … sometime. Read the total interview right here.