"This Is Happening": the third album by LCD Soundsystem

Someone please seed this thread

The comment that made me go O_o was "this is pretty good for the most part, kind of Lightning Seeds-ish"

this and the nineties thread amaze me with america's capacity for absorbing the uk's forgotten popkult shite

that is an amazing comment!

I'd take the first Lightning Seeds album over the LCD debut and This Is Happening.

srsssly xp? cos it kinda is

i don't know anything about the lightning seeds, if i ever i did, except that they were english and they were once extant

can't imagine they sounded anything like 'dance yrself clean' tho

yeah nah it's just kind of hilar

lightning seeds never been much of a hipster reference point iirc

That link made me feel guilty abt downloading it and now I sort of want to delete it and wait til May 17 :( I mean, there's no chance I'm NOT going to buy this.

Listening to this now via the inhouse PA of Easy Street Records -- it's definitely a perfect dance record for browsing and crate-digging (an honest compliment!)

That's funny, I heard the MGMT album in the same context/setting yesterday and it sounded alright!

Music stores, making everything sound good.

Easy Street fucked up the Reggae section when they reorganized. BTW, Ned, if you like Thomas Fehlmann, the LP has a copy of the CD inside and is priced nicely at 14.99 at the back of the store.

The Lightning Seeds have reformed, presumably to make a boatload of money in a World Cup year. Jams Murphy is doing the David Baddiel bit on Three Lions 2010.

that was them? cultural death of england easily mapped to the six yrs between new order / john barnes and that volkisch shite

I geeked out on a youtube clip with Ian Broudie, Terry Hall and Craig Gannon strumming acoustic guitars recently. Wish I had seen the tour with Gannon.

Really digging this album as a whole, but holy shit, "Somebody's Calling Me". It's less a track and more a "Nightclubbing" remix. Makes you look about that whole "sued into submission" line from "All My Friends" in a new light. Let's hope Iggy has no idea this band exists.

I got as far as All I Want and stopped listening - not really feeling this at all and I loved Sound of Silver. It feels a bit like he's forgotten how to construct a good groove. It took me until halfway through the first track to work out whether or not I was listening to a fake leak.

yes -- otm

I am embarrassed by "Drunk Girls" and by the fact that Pitchfork not only selected it as one of the "best new tracks" but actually failed to mention that the song is basically "White Light/White Heat" watered down one million times.

"Somebody's Calling Me" = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knPPi45NTQA

"Drunk Girls" = "King's Lead Hat" + "Boys Keep Swinging"

http://imgur.com/LsykK.jpg
my 1st listen review

"Heroes" + "Here Come the Warm Jets" = "All I Want" (Despite half the album being blatant pastiche, I'm still enjoying it. Par the course for Murphy at the very least.)

Agreed with some of the comments upthread, that intro before the groove kicks in on the first track lasts way way too long and is fairly offputting. It smokes once it kicks in, but I keep feeling like its not worth the wait.

i don't disagree, but still, i'm loving the album. i forgot what a sharp lyricist he is (lots of namedropping and "inside-baseball" type talk, but that's what gives his work such style).

wonder if this'll be one of the letters in this year's equivalent of GAPDY

has lcd soundsystem always been about pastiche?

It was scientifically proven on the "Match a band with an auteur director" thread that LCD Soundsystem is the Paul Thomas Anderson of music, and the way they like appealing to critics and buffs with sly use of homage was one of the reasons for the match-up.

"This scene is straight out of Days of Heaven/Goodfellas, isn't it? FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU"

"This guitar riff and chorus is from Brian Eno/Pete Shelley, isn't it? FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU"

no way Paul Thomas Anderson is way too corny, u mad.

don't doubt the science of that classic, stoner-friendly thread.

I'd take the first Lightning Seeds album over the LCD debut and This Is Happening.

Fall of Rome shit right here.

Agreed with some of the comments upthread, that intro before the groove kicks in on the first track lasts way way too long and is fairly offputting. It smokes once it kicks in, but I keep feeling like its not worth the wait.

nah the intro is fantastic, the resignation of 'it happens all the time'....

Btw, that same coworker later said "wait, do I mean The Lightning Seeds or The Beautiful South?"

welp, either way, ilx was there first:

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=79&threadid=65077

like One Touch - like one of the better tracks on the last Juan Maclean album but with a bit more raucous urgency (not sure this is something JM necessarily needs in his own stuff tho...just makes it more annoying how ppl ignored that LP compared to LCD)

Going slightly off top here for a second, great to see that OMD footage earlier in the thread. I've seen it loads of times and it always makes me laugh. What the hell is going on with his moves? How can anyone's legs move like that?

Still loving the new album. I guess Somebody's calling me is the weakest track but I still like it more than Sound Of Silver which was my least favourite on the last album.

So the really low vocals on "Dance Yrself Clean" (amazing song, regardless) and songs like "All I Want"... intentional or just a shitty mixing job? I mean, none of Jams' other albums have had that problem and he KNOWS how to mix vocals, so I'm guessing it's just an artistic choice. Still, I don't really like it. Ah well.

Was supposed to be seeing these guys on Tuesday but it's been cancelled cos of the volcano. Could be a bleak summer for the gig-goers of Europe.

I'm guessing it's just an artistic choice

I'd guess it's to make you turn it up to hear the soft first part then you get blown out by the second part but you're supposed to keep it that loud

or something

I don't like this song at all, but the video is kind of fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdRaf3-OEh4

I wanted to think it was an artistic choice and I wanted to like it, but I've come to the conclusion that there are simply poor mixing choices affecting at least 1/3 of the tracks. They def. sound more erratic on headphones than on the stereo, but they're kind of a mess either way.

Yeah the production on this is well ropey.

Yeah... and I don't get it because he knows very well how to mix vocals, and that's what pisses me off. I kind of understand the "I'd guess it's to make you turn it up to hear the soft first part then you get blown out by the second part but you're supposed to keep it that loud" explanation, but that's kind of bullshit too. The only songs I have a problem with the mixing are "Dance Yrself Clean" and "All I Want," and maybe because it's just two songs you can chalk it up to artistic choice... but fuck.

that video is so amazing ^

video is so fantastic!

seems like every couple years he does a video where he gets physically pwned ("losing my edge", "all my friends", this).

wondering if those are the jackass guys in the panda suits?

OMG that video. I have such a crush on Pat Mahoney :(

Check out @lcdsoundsystem's video for drunk girls by spike jonze.we're the tall violent pandas at the beginning: http://tumblr.com/xkq8tqi7t
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Alex Holy Ghost!

http://twitter.com/HolyGhostNYC/status/12470203651

awes, but wish they'd spend less time in videos, more time making more music.

lol wait theyve got a single coming out in a week

way late to this party but this is great so far...ive repeated "all i want" about 5 times now and get past it. just a stunning track

d-_-b

^^