LCD Soundsystem‘s Gavilán Rayna Russom has announced that she has left the band.The synth player/multi-disciplinary artist joined the James Murphy-fronted group in 2008, but was notably absent from the first show of their Brooklyn Steel residency in New York last night (November 23).Explaining her decision to depart LCD in a new interview with Pitchfork, Russom said: “When this offer came up again [to perform at LCD Soundsystem’s Brooklyn gigs], I had considered it.
And when I looked at the reality of this time, I was just like, ‘I’m just not able to do this’.“My [solo] work has grown to a point where I’m not able to put it aside for a couple of years and go on tour with LCD, or double up.
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