Review: LCD Soundsystem-This is Happening

Review: LCD Soundsystem-This is Happening by jason

May 20, 2010, 4:53 pm
Filed under: Review | Tags: LCD Soundsystem, This is Happening

LCD Soundsystem-This is Happening. DFA/Virgin, 2010.

I wish I listened to more LCD Soundsystem. I really liked “Daft Punk is Playing at My House” from 2005’s self-titled album. They’re a group that sounds like they are having fun making music to have fun to, and in that, This is Happening follows suit.

It’s kind of a strange thing, though. While LCDS are making, primarily, dance music, they let their songs go on, often for 7-10 minutes. For instance, “Dance Yrself Clean” is nine minutes long, and the first three of those minutes sound like a Talking Heads homage.

As pretentious as that sounds, these guys are half-joking the whole time, as “Drunk Girls” makes obvious.

This is not an album I would sit down to listen to…it’s just not that kind of album. If I were throwing a party, I’d play this in the background. If I were out where dancing was happening (I can’t dance myself), I’d request “Drunk Girls” or “Pow Pow.” If I were at a hipster bar, where I’m sure this would be in the jukebox, I’d play “Dance Yrself Clean,” or “You Wanted a Hit.”

In This is Happening, LCD Soundsytem have created an album that is an excellent listen, as long as you’re doing something else at the time, and I mean that in the best way possible. It’s less of an album and more of an activity enhancer, which I think is exactly what they were going for.

-jason

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