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LCD Soundsystem is reuniting and James Murphy has a lengthy explanation of why it happens four years after playing their supposed last show. The dance/rock group will return from retirement to record a new album and tour this year.

Murphy felt the need to apologize to fans for letting them down and expect them not to feel betrayed by their return. "In my naivete I hadn't seen one thing coming: there are people who don't hate us at all, in fact who feel very attached to the band, and have put a lot of themselves into their care of us, who feel betrayed by us coming back and playing. who had traveled for or tried to go to the MSG show, and who found it to be an important moment for them, which now to them feels cheapened," Murphy wrote on the band's Facebook page. "I just hadn't considered that. i know - ridiculous on my part. I saw some comments online a few days ago from people who felt that way, and it blindsided me, and made me incredibly sad."

Murphy considered going solo but eventually decided that he was better at making music with LCD members Pat Mahoney and Nancy Whang. "They both said 'let's make an LCD record.' you see, if they didn't want to, which i'd half assumed, then there's no such thing as LCD. imagine this: me making a record, calling it LCD, and then you go to the show and there's just some guy playing drums over there, or some other person playing keyboards," he wrote.

Their reunion will happen this year to support the new album. "We're not just having some reunion tour. we're releasing a record (sometime this year - still working on it, actually), so this isn't a victory lap or anything, which wouldn't be of much interest to us. this is just the bus full of substitute teachers back from their coffee break with new music and the same weird gear," Murphy revealed.