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Artist: Lcd SoundsystemEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-02-15
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- daft punk is playing at my house
- too much love
- tribulations
- movement
- never as tired as when i'm waking up
- on repeat
- thrills
- disco infiltrator
- great release
- losing my edge
- beat connection
- give it up
- tired
- yeah (crass version)
- yeah (pretentious version)
- yr city's a sucker (12" version)
Free Music Notes for LCD Soundsystem
Free Music Review: Best of 2005
Hit: 5 Stars
It's official. LCD Soundsystem is 2005's best album, as of February 16, and, although it won't be bought by most for its dance tracks, is possibly the best dance record to come out of the USA since 1979.
If you could pick out one track -- any track -- from this eponymous album, as separate from the record as a whole, you might be able to define the genre, detemine influences, and draw comparisons to a reasonably similar band. But to do so would be entirely unfair to a record which, by its nature is entirely unique, disperse yet unified in vision, and destined to become a classic.
The overall feel of this eclectic album is of indie vocals over very well sequenced rhythms that alternate between vintage 80's, and the best of indie 2004 (the best single year for indie music ever, in my humble opinion). Some tracks are layered with rich experimental guitars, while others let the clever, often spoken but never boring lyrics take the lead. But just when you've got LCD Soundsystem (aka New York producer James Murphy, now co-head of red-hot label/production duo DFA) figured out as Talking Heads meets Cabaret Voltaire meets late model Bowie, as might have been produced and recorded by Factory Records circa 1980, you get thrown for a loop by a track like the perfect "Movement", an almost too-short track which stands out as the best of the record, and whose screeching guitars over industrial bass line and cymbal heavy drums are the rock high point of the record. This energetic plateau leads perfectly into the brilliant, mellow "Never as Tired as When I'm Waking Up", a track that could easily have been taken directly from Elbow's Cast of Thousands, but which seems to work so much better here as part of what turns out to be an incredible compilation of style. The record's closer, "Great Release" is quite comparable to the best you might hear from Moby.
Then you get to disc 2.
That's right. This record, which as a single disc was already brilliant, is a two disc set, for a single album price. That is: it's a two disc set unless you buy on iTunes (don't do this -- do yourself a favor and get the entire two disc record and the six additional tracks).
Disc 2 is even more danceable than disc 1 (which is no small feat). Concentrating more on rhythm, lyrics and soundscape than on hook and radio sellability, the second half of LCD Soundsystem takes off with the classic club anthem "Losing My Edge", which cleverly sounds off many of Murphy's most important influences, and announces, quite accurately, "We all know what you really want". This is followed by the standard club fare "Beat Connection" and then the groovy "Give it Up", which sees the Cramps meeting the Pixies. "Tired" is a thrash guitar celebration and the two versions of "Yeah" are pure modern disco bliss, 70's bassline and all. The second of these is an instrumental triumph of epic proportion.
If I sound excessively excited and annoyingly enthusiastic for this record, it's because I am. By the way, Daft Punk is always playing at my house.
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2005 album consists of entirely new material & a bonus CD of all previously released singles.So much has been said about disco-punk's King Midas, New York musician/producer James Murphy, that it's kind of hard to believe that we've had to wait until 2005 for the debut album from his dancefloor project, LCD Soundsystem. LCD's classic triumvirate of early singles--"Losing My Edge," "Give It Up," and "Yeah"--joined the dots between punk-rock, disco, and funk in a way that hadn't been seen since the New York downtown scene of the early '80s, but these are bravely relegated to a bonus disc in favor of a suite of new material that reworks the band's influences in new, often explicit ways: take "Movement," for instance--a homage to the Fall that finds Murphy barking "It's a fat guy/ In a T-shirt/ Doing all the singing!" over punchy analog synths, or the quietly majestic "Great Release," a doff of the cap to Brian Eno circa Taking Tiger Mountain. For all his encyclopedic musical knowledge, however, it's one of Murphy's strengths that he seldom seems uptight about the practice of music-making: it's how he can get away with penning a gonzo disco-punk number and naming it something as fantastically flippant as "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House"--and more importantly, it's why LCD Soundsystem succeeds as a splendid dance record as well as a smart intellectual exercise. --Louis Pattison
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