LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening (Vinyl)
Make no mistake: James Murphy and his crew are fully committed to 2010's This Is Happening. There’s a remarkable sustained energy to this collection; its electronic textures thrum and shimmy, and wall after sonic wall is built up and torn down with impeccable precision. But there’s an odd tension throughout; Murphy sounds both all-in and like he’s keeping one eye on the exit—in no small part, surely, because he intends this album to be LCD Soundsystem’s last - and it was until, 'American Dream', the 2017 comeback.
It’s not a swan-song, exactly—that would require some degree of sentimentality and forced closure that seems wholly absent from Murphy’s world—but it’s deliberate and no-nonsense; he doesn’t want to waste his time, or yours, or anyone’s.
Maybe he senses he’s in danger of eventually outstaying his welcome, becoming the kind of artist of whom people say things like, “Yeah, he kind of just does that one thing, but I like that one thing.” That “one thing” would be a hundred tiny things, of course (picking his favorite parts of electronica and house and punk and pop and soul and splicing it all into his own wryly syncopated vision, affixed with a healthy bit of brattiness).
While it’s certainly still working for him now - This Is Happening is, in all respects, LCD’s best album. (Paste Magazine)
2 x Vinyl, Reissue
Tracklist:
A1 Dance Yrself Clean
A2 Drunk Girls
B1 One Touch
B2 All I Want
B3 I Can Change
C1 You Wanted A Hit
C2 Pow Pow
D1 Somebody's Calling Me
D2 Home 7:53
Make no mistake: James Murphy and his crew are fully committed to 2010's This Is Happening. There’s a remarkable sustained energy to this collection; its electronic textures thrum and shimmy, and wall after sonic wall is built up and torn down with impeccable precision. But there’s an odd tension throughout; Murphy sounds both all-in and like he’s keeping one eye on the exit—in no small part, surely, because he intends this album to be LCD Soundsystem’s last - and it was until, 'American Dream', the 2017 comeback.
It’s not a swan-song, exactly—that would require some degree of sentimentality and forced closure that seems wholly absent from Murphy’s world—but it’s deliberate and no-nonsense; he doesn’t want to waste his time, or yours, or anyone’s.
Maybe he senses he’s in danger of eventually outstaying his welcome, becoming the kind of artist of whom people say things like, “Yeah, he kind of just does that one thing, but I like that one thing.” That “one thing” would be a hundred tiny things, of course (picking his favorite parts of electronica and house and punk and pop and soul and splicing it all into his own wryly syncopated vision, affixed with a healthy bit of brattiness).
While it’s certainly still working for him now - This Is Happening is, in all respects, LCD’s best album. (Paste Magazine)
2 x Vinyl, Reissue
Tracklist:
A1 Dance Yrself Clean
A2 Drunk Girls
B1 One Touch
B2 All I Want
B3 I Can Change
C1 You Wanted A Hit
C2 Pow Pow
D1 Somebody's Calling Me
D2 Home 7:53
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