Vinyl Record
LCD Soundsystem - X-Ray Eyes
LCD Soundsystem - X-Ray Eyes on LP vinyl. A 2024 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 2024
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2024 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
X-Ray Eyes is LCD Soundsystem returning in 2024 with a single that feels deliberately narrow, mechanical and sly. Rather than staging a grand comeback gesture, James Murphy, Al Doyle and Nancy Whang build the track around a blunt phrase, a slow electro-funk pulse and the kind of dry repetition that has always let LCD blur joke, threat and groove. The extended trash can dub on the companion side pushes the idea further, stretching the rhythm until the details become the point: percussion, synth grime, vocal fragments, and the pleasure of a track that refuses to hurry toward revelation. After American Dream and the later live residencies, X-Ray Eyes works as a low-lit signal from the workshop. It points back to the earliest LCD habit of making a simple phrase feel unstable through duration, texture and dance-floor deadpan.
X-Ray Eyes matters because it was the band's first new music after the 2022 single New Body Rhumba and arrived while questions about a further album chapter were still open. Its restraint is part of the statement: LCD can still make tension from a few hard, funny, repetitive ingredients.
This is a singles-minded LCD piece, best collected by listeners who enjoy the project's extended mixes and dance-floor mechanics. The appeal is in the pairing of the main track with the longer dub, which lets the groove breathe and turns a small idea into a tactile object.
Minimal electro-dance rock with dry vocals, rubbery low-end, dubby extension, machine funk, deadpan repetition and a late-night DFA edge.
Recommended for: LCD Soundsystem collectors following the post-American Dream singles; Fans of DFA 12-inch culture and extended dub versions; Listeners who like minimal, deadpan grooves that reveal detail over time.
What year did X-Ray Eyes appear? X-Ray Eyes appeared in 2024, with a physical single following in the surrounding release cycle. Who wrote X-Ray Eyes? The song is credited to James Murphy, Al Doyle and Nancy Whang. What is the extended trash can dub? It is a longer dub version that stretches the track's groove and emphasizes percussion, texture and repetition.