This record lacks the kind of go-go rave-up that each previous LCD Soundsystem album had there’s no “ Drunk Girls” or “Daft Punk Is Playing at My House” here. As detail-obsessed a producer as any working today - consult “American Dream’s” liner notes for the make and model of every keyboard he used - Murphy skillfully layers his sounds for tracks that somehow feel dense and airy at the same time. But music is the natural repository for Murphy’s thoughts, so songs are where he put them.Īnd, man, can this guy build a song. Maybe Murphy could’ve put all this stuff in a book maybe he could’ve annotated the menu at the wine bar he opened with his wife during LCD Soundsystem’s hiatus. “I had fear in the room, so I stopped turning up,” he sings over a gentle but ominous groove, “My hands kept pushing down in my pockets / I’m bad with people things, but I should have tried more.”Įlsewhere he describes being abandoned by a lifelong friend (“Standing on the shore getting old / You left me here with the vape clowns”) and invokes the slow degradation of his body: flaking skin, a calming heartbeat, wrinkles revealed by the morning sun. The album’s moving closer, “Black Screen,” appears to be about the time he spent working with his hero David Bowie on Bowie’s album “Blackstar,” which was released just days before the rock legend died last year. In the funky, jagged “Change Yr Mind” he’s back in his “Losing My Edge” mindset, admitting, “I’m not dangerous now, the way I used to be once.”īut Murphy is also facing bigger, more existential worries than he likely could’ve imagined a decade and a half ago. LCD Soundsystem is James Murphy, Pat Mahoney, Nancy Whang, Al Doyle, Gavin Russom, Tyler Pope, Matt Thornley and Korey Richey.“‘What’s it you do again?’” somebody probably half his age asks him in “Tonite,” and the answer comes caked in his sneering self-deprecation: “‘Oh, I’m a reminder: a hobbled veteran of the disk-shop inquisition / Sent to parry the cocksure mem-stick filth with mine own late-era middle-aged ramblings.” (These are no doubt the lyrics that inspired Father John Misty to offer up an earnest Facebook post of his own recently in which he described “Tonite” as “miraculous.”) The band returned to the stage with a pair of shows in New York City on March 27 and 28 of last year, and headlined festivals and select dates throughout 2016. After four years of silence, LCD Soundsystem released the new song “Christmas Will Break Your Heart” on December 24, 2015. On April 2, 2011, LCD Soundsystem performed The Long Goodbye, a three-hour-plus farewell concert at a sold out Madison Square Garden, chronicled by both a live album of the same name and the feature film documentary Shut Up And Play The Hits. Sound Of Silver, the second LCD Soundsystem album, was released in 2007 and featured the singles “North American Scum,” “Someone Great,” and “All My Friends.” In 2010, the third LCD Soundsystem album, This Is Happening, was released, featuring the singles “I Can Change,” “Drunk Girls,” and “Pow Pow,” and debuting in the US Top 10. LCD Soundsystem emerged from New York City in July 2002 with James Murphy’s first recording as LCD and third release on his DFA label, “Losing My Edge.” Keyboardist/vocalist Nancy Whang and drummer Pat Mahoney were enlisted as LCD Soundsystem released singles including “Yeah," “Movement,” and “Daft Punk Is Playing At My House,” and the band’s eponymous 2005 debut LP.
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