It’s been a half-decade since 2017’s American Dream, and LCD Soundsystem have been coaxed into finally releasing new music by Noah Baumbach, who commissioned the band to make a single for his Netflix adaptation of Don DeLillo’s White Noise. Like LCD hits of yore, “new body rhumba” is a geometric, cowbell-friendly dance-punk track that looks warily at modern society. Over a jagged guitar loop, clapping percussion, and wiry synths, James Murphy bellows about the capitalist desire for more, more, more (“I need a new body/ …to represent my needs”), mocking a world of fast-casual salads and temp gigs. (“Would you like to add a protein?/Would you like to ask me about my day rates?”) Five minutes in, the song plunges into a swirling electronic dreamscape, guided by crescendoing chords and starry synths. Murphy gazes at the light on the other side of eternity, his tone softening from bitterness to acceptance.
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