We'd waited for so long that it seemed like it was never going to happen. When the 2016 Electric Picnic-headlining set produced no new tracks, we thought that was that.

Then last month - at a residency in Brooklyn Steel concert hall - the New York band showcased five new songs.

This is happening, was the general sentiment.

'call the police' - the sprawling, energetic 7-minute opener - picks up right where LCD Soundsystem's final album track 'Home' left off seven years earlier, by ways of their seminal epic 'All My Friends'. It's a statement to let us know they're back at their best.

'american dream' is a slower affair, much more driven by its lyrical weight and James Murphy's stunning vocals (that falsetto whose power we'd forgotten). It's a companion song to 'New York I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down'. A love ballad addressed to an unknown person (or possibly to the American Dream itself), it's a painful channelling of disillusion and heartbreak.

Listen to both tracks here: