The New Music

Jason Pierce has hinted there will be a new Spiritualized album in 2010. Speaking with The Quietus, Mr. Spaceman said, “I am making a record… It’s early days. We’ve put down some great, great songs.” Well, great!

Speaking of highly anticipated new albums, LCD Soundsystem have not only one possible album, but also a score coming up… possibly. James Murphy told Drowned In Sound, “i guess it sounds like LCD, really. i mean, it’s different in some ways, maybe the same amount that SOS was different than the first record–maybe more different.” Meanwhile, the score will be for the forthcoming film by Noah Baumbach starring Ben Stiller. Murphy says “it has been really fun,” but not much else. The Playlist, however, says Murphy will be making a cameo in Greenberg.

Wait, another highly anticipated album? You don’t say. But yes, Panda Bear has revealed to Pedestrian.TV that he’s working on his next record. In a nutshell: “The rhythms are really basic and kind of raw and simple and are electronic. It’s not live instrumentation, I’ve been playing guitar but I feed it through the same thing that the sequences are on. It’s a very electronic sound and very voice heavy. A simple arrangement of drums, the guitar and singing. Really there are only two or three elements to every song. It’s pretty raw sounding for better for worse.”

Late great Scottish indie act The Yummy Fur are reuniting. Somewhat famous for once featuring Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos and Paul Thompson as members, the awkward cult band will play gigs in the UK and U.S. next January.

Coldplay’s Guy Berryman has formed a side-project with members of Mew and er, A-ha? Apparatjik will release their first track, “Electric Eye” on November 30th through their website, Apparatjik.com.