Artist – Album: LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem
Released: 24th January 2005
Sounds Like: The hipsters go-to dance punk party album
LCD Soundsystem, brainchild of New Jersey producer James
Murphy, were too cool by half. Perennial favourites of supercilious online
music magazine Pitchfork Media, each of their three studio albums garnered huge
acclaim from websites and actual publications alike. In 2010, This Is Happening
was listed as Pitchfork’s second best album of the year, repeating the feat achieved
by 2007’s Sound of Silver, and this debut record was the eighth best back in
the old sepia toned days of 2005.
Before all that, James Murphy had gigged in various bands
and as a sound man on albums in New York and New Jersey, and was a clued up
indie rock DJ. This experience all came to a head on LCD Soundsystem’s first single
‘Losing My Edge’, a sharp eight
minute name check session where the protagonist lists iconic acts and venues
(GIL! SCOTT! HERON!), and worries about falling behind the times. The fact that
it was set to dance punk built around a Killing Joke sample meant that it was
soon picked up by the cooler-than-thou DJs it was supposed to represent.
The rest of this album follows much the same line of wit and
electronic sensibilities. ‘Daft Punk Is
Playing At My House’ is incredibly fun and a stalwart of indie discos
during the mid-noughties. ‘Tribulations’ is
dark electo-pop and ‘Never as Tired as
When I’m Waking Up’ is a slight departure into gentle indie rock.
Over 100 minutes long and across two discs, this record
understandably doesn’t always hit the sweet spot. And at times it does feel
like a collection of singles rather than a single flowing album (particularly
with the second disc). But there’s enough smarts and skill here to make it an
album you need to have a look at.
Albumaday... rating:
7/10
1. Daft
Punk Is Playing at My House – 5:16
2. Too
Much Love – 5:42
3. Tribulations
– 4:59
4. Movement
– 3:04
5. Never
as Tired as When I’m Waking Up – 4:49
6. On
Repeat – 8:01
7. Thrills
– 3:42
8. Disco
Infiltrator – 4:56
9. Great
Release – 6:35
10. Losing
My Edge – 7:51
11. Beat
Connection – 8:08
12. Give
It Up – 3:55
13. Tired
– 3:34
14. Yeah
(Crass Version) – 9:21
15. Yeah
(Pretentious Version) – 11:06
16. Yr
City’s a Sucker (Full Version) – 9:22
Listen to ‘Daft Punk
Are Playing At My House’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj8JrQ9w5jY
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Also released on the 24th January:
2006: Jenny Lewis – Rabbit Fur Coat
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