Good Way to Start the Week
Thanks, James Murphy. Best song of the year thus far? Possibly. Best song ever? No. But, man, is it fucking good.
Archived entries for LCD Soundsystem
TV on the Radio Hiatus Watch: LCD Week
Where were you when your eardrums exploded? Yesterday will almost certainly go down as one of the most infamous days since D-Day or 9/11. The day that the internet stopped giving a shit about what we were doing and decided to lay too much on us at once. Broken Social Scene and LCD Soundsystem records leaked on the same fucking day? I handled this as any sensible human being would, rigging up two massive stereo systems and playing them both simultaneously about an inch from my face until my nose starting bleeding. I wanted to find the hidden message contained within, if any. I didn’t.
I don’t want to talk about both at once because after that traumatic experience, it’ll only bring up bad memories. So, instead we’ll focus on them one at a time. One today, one tomorrow. Or the day after tomorrow. Or next week, if I get lazy.
Yes, it appears that David Bowie has finally created yet another record to add to his canon. Something intertwining all of his styles, from his mid-period dance pop that combined elements of punk and synth, to his 70s era records with smart, innovative pop music. Wait a minute. This isn’t a Bowie record, you say? It’s done by James Murphy, otherwise known as LCD Soundsystem? Someone has some explaining to do. Continue reading…
Stealing Music is Illegal
But, just an fyi. The new LCD Soundsystem record, This is Happening, has leaked and is all over the internetz.
Wait! There’s more! Forgiveness Rock Record, the new album from Broken Social Scene, is also floating around out there. Good gravy! I feel like I just got infected with smallpox. In a good way. (What?)
Remember, it’s illegal and highly irresponsible to go out and steal music. But I also know it’s tough to wait for such awesomeness to land in a record store. So, faithful Hood Rich-ians, promise me that if you go out and download these records, you’ll also go buy them when they come out. Deal?
Do with this information what you will. Just don’t download a trans-code. Tony will make fun of you. He’s a fucking snob.
Fuck. Yes.
New LCD Soundsystem premiered over at One Thirty BPM today. Then Pitchfork got a better copy of it. I hate to link to those fucks but it’s definitely awesome. We still have no idea what the album, due May 15th on DFA, is called. But who gives a shit. Behold the Drunk Girls.
Nine From ‘09
Now that the first full month of January is done, 2009 is in our collective rear-view mirror. And, instead of recapping the year with another annoying “Best Of” list, I’ve decided to bring you nine songs from last year that flew under the radar (for most of us, at least) and should not be forgotten.
Because, really, how many times do you have to be told that “My Girls” and “Two Weeks” are awesome?
#9. Cold Cave – “Heaven Was Full”
I actually toyed with leaving this one off of the list because Cold Cave has been getting a shit-ton of attention lately. But I feel like so much of said attention is spent trying to make “early New Order” comparisons that this song, from their debut full-length Love Comes Close, could be overlooked. A throwback to dark synth pop acts such as Erasure and Public Image Ltd., lead singer Wesley Eisold sounds like Bernard Sumner after a Quaalude overdose. And those drums….just listen to those layers of drums. This is an icy bit of goth goodness.
#8. Tim Hecker – “Where Shadows
Make Shadows”
From the Canadian experimental composer’s album, An Imaginary Country, this track is all dark, distorted, ominous synths, coming in like some great hurricane cloud over the shores of some idyllic beach. A true “mood piece’ that stretches over eight minutes of zone out bliss.
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#7. 
The Thermals – “When We Were
Alive”
To say that 2009’s Now We Can See was a disappointment in comparison to 2007’s political-punk blitzkreig, The Body, the Blood, the Machine, would be a pretty apt statement. But that doesn’t mean there weren’t any gems on the group’s understated follow up. And “When We Were Dead” is just that. A blast of in your face, driving pop, the song deftly sums up the album’s entire concept in less than two minutes.
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We finish the countdown after the jump.
