LCD Soundsystem - American Dream - 9/1/17

get a sense that they are trying to accomplish Belew solos at points in this, but it is beyond their abilities

otm

I guess good for them for not just having Byrne/Belew/anyone else just play on their records, since surely they could at this point?

I'm not sure Byrne would be in, but Belew is cool doing session work and I'm fine with that!

Emotional Haircut reminded me more of Wire than anything else

― ufo, Friday, September 8, 2017 12:11 AM (three days ago)

As soon as I read that I could hear "I'm the Fly" in my head.

Album art looks like an ilxor quoteblock

Pre-s/t singles = metal gear solid
S/t = metal gear solid 2
Sound of silver = metal gear solid 3
45:33 = metal gear solid peace walker
This is happening = metal gear solid 4
American dream = metal gear solid 5
Introns, bunch of stuff, the one from the Kevin spacey movie, etc = ghost babel, portable ops, the tactical rpg one, etc

If you know what I am talking about and disagree, fucking fight me

I have no idea wtf you mean.

good for you, otherwise you'd have to fucking fight him!

American dream = metal gear solid 5

Also, lol.

i don't think that analogy works at all but lol

Also Murphy and Kojima might have similar tastes - Murphy clearly loves New Order and Kojima named one of his releases 'Substance' for the same reason - but as far as temperment is concerned, Kojima has none of that James Murphy self deprecation and referentiality; Kojima is 100% scatterbrain ego mania, moving effortlessly from David Bowie references to fuckin' holographic blue whales coming out of the fuckin' earth.

As I type this I realize Kojima would slay that wimpy Murphy.

love you nerds

Kojima is an old goth - he always post stuff abt New Order, Joy Division, the Smiths, Echo & the Bunnymen etc etc

Emotional Haircut reminded me more of Wire than anything else

― ufo, Friday, September 8, 2017 12:11 AM (three days ago)

I can't stop hearing Geddy Lee sing "Emo-tion-al haircut - on timeless wavelength/bearing a gift beyond price/almost free"

i will never fucking forgive this thread for forcing me to equate "zaireeka" to metal gear

This thread is more interesting than this drab of an album.

a lil drab'll do ya, in this case

will never fucking forgive this thread for forcing me to equate "zaireeka" to metal gear

You're welcome.

His records sound so great.

This one sounds way better than the last one to me, which was kinda thin-sounding? All the synths sound amazing.

Definitely a bass guitar album.

And looking at the credits it's mostly JM...he's a really good bass player, huh?

The album was mastered by Shellac bass player Bob Weston, if that could have something to do with it

Anyway I'm in love with this performance from Jools Holland last week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORGpezG5-Jc

Bob Weston's is always a name I'm pleased to see on mastering credits.

I, surprisingly, did not have a problem with the album, but no joke, I literally forgot it existed.

Finally listened to this today; the CD's been sitting on top of a speaker for two weeks. There's been plenty of other new stuff to listen to, but I think I've also been avoiding it.

But it's ... actually really, really good! TBH I was more than happy for 'Home' to be their final statement, but I'm pleased to be so wrong. And whoever said upthread that this was a bass guitar album was totally OTM.

This is not a very enjoyable record.

I liked Wire's review;

".. the inexpressive lite-white stadium bluster of the tracks - frequently recalling U2 at their bloated worst.. This record is no cause for celebration. It's a slab of nothing, a media spectacle for the terminally impressed.. "

I saw that it's Album Of The Year in one of the big monthlies but I forget which.

It left no impression on me when it first came out, but I decided to give it a second shot tonight because I just caught up with Tom Scharpling's excellent interview with Murphy from the summer. This time around, I'm not only finding it boring, but actually unpleasant. "How Do You Sleep" is particularly dreary.

seems like there other records had some combination of hope/humor that seems in short supply here.

Wire quote is good. It feels like a record that's not behind the times, but rather completely besides it. Combined with an artist who painfully overrates the importance of his own second coming, this shit should've been butchered in 2017. It's completely risk-free, reliant on distant memories: the most boring music alive. Slab of nothing indeed.

it's not that bad, calm down

at the time i blamed it on the weed i had eaten along with arca's set rewiring my brain, but they sucked at pitchfork. that wire quote pretty much sums up how i felt about it, though i would add that murphy probably watched 'stop making sense' way too many times

mean thread

Album of the year for this record is... interesting

it's not surprising at all, it's a big comeback release from a critically acclaimed band with lots of cross over appeal, their first to reach the #1 spot on Billboard too

of course it's going to get a lot of votes in a Mojo eoy poll, and it wouldn't need #1 votes to top the poll

“how do you sleep” is actually great

though i’m guess i’m tired of james “the only record i’ve listened to in the past ten years is the idiot” murphy

and Remain in Light

I don't have strong feelings about LCD, love a handful of songs, but there are some serious RIL rips on this record. beyond 'quotes.' in addition to the sound of the whole thing

yea he's always borrowed pretty liberally but there are two songs on this album that steal the sound of RIL so blatantly that I can't think of anything else when I'm hearing them

still think this is probably his best record overall and a perfectly defensible AOTY choice

I agree. like, why not this one?

It's not that good, calm down

I enjoyed this record a lot. Still do.

xpost it's not that good. but neither is it that bad. It's total nostalgic comfort food, so can go either way, but I think ultimately that saves it from any legit hate, imo. which is why I say sure, put it on the end of the year lists. Something's going to make it to those lists and I know I'm going to hate more of those records than I hate this record, which I don't even listen to.

I needed to test out my theory that I was simply over James Murphy at this point, so I spun This is Happening this morning, but nope, it still sounds terrific.

i’m openly nostalgic for the brief year or so where we thought the rapture would be the ‘band’ on dfa records and lcd would be experimental synth dancefloor experiments of one of the owners with other projects branching out in different directions

I don't eat comfort food though

yea he's always borrowed pretty liberally but there are two songs on this album that steal the sound of RIL so blatantly that I can't think of anything else when I'm hearing them

yeah I like this album but had the same exact issue w/ those two songs. like if you told JM his new assignment was to make a RiL pastiche, I'm not sure he could do better than 'other voices'.

It's probably just me, but I find this album becomes immensely entertaining when I imagine it being sung by Will Ferrell as Mugatu from Zoolander

lmao

lol fuck this guys and his 10 nights of shows in Brooklyn this month. really?

Right?

I often think about how residencies used to be a big thing, not only in jazz but also in folk, and afaik with fx CBGBs also punk/new wave, and how cool would it be to be able to see Bob Dylan or Talking Heads twice a week

but now I guess it's a Vegas thing