LCD Tour Their Dance-Punk

LCD Soundsystem, the New York outfit responsible for one of the year's catchiest dance-floor numbers, "Daft Punk Is Playing in My House," will hit the studio this December to record the follow-up to their self-titled spring 2005 debut.

Currently touring the U.S., frontman James Murphy says he's aching to get back to work with production partner Tim Goldsworthy and start exploring the next offering's one-word theme. "It's 'silver,'" he says of the concept, completely serious -- although he won't explain just yet. And in terms of process, Murphy wants to take a very specific approach: "I want to do it in layers, like I do remixes. I want to make the songs and put them aside, then remix them and throw things out and change it a lot."

The album is due out in a year's time, and Murphy says he's already composed a number of the songs in his head -- "all the parts and everything." He plans to let those brain symphonies loose over the holiday period. "The stuff in your head is very vulnerable, so if I make a demo, the thing in my head would be erased and be replaced by this demo," he explains -- sounding a bit like Mozart in Amadeus. "I try to go from thought to getting in [the computer] as quickly as possible, and then I can listen to what it is."

Although Murphy and Goldsworthy, as DFA Records, created an influential hybrid of punk and dance music, Murphy shrugs off the idea of a new release being radical. "Everybody who makes a record thinks they're going to change the world when they finish it," he says, laughing. "It doesn't."

LCD Soundsystem tour dates:

11/11: Nashville, City Hall
11/12: Atlanta, Earthlink Live
11/13: Asheville, NC, Orange Peel
11/14: Carrboro, NC, Cat's Cradle
11/15: Baltimore, Sonar
11/16: Philadelphia, The Trocadero
11/18: Toronto, Kool Haus
11/19: Montreal, Society for Technological Arts
11/20: Boston, The Roxy
11/21: Atlantic City, NJ, House of Blues
11/23: New York, Nokia Theatre Times Square