LCD Soundsystem "This Is Happening"

             The age of the album is dead. This fact, as controversial and debatable as it may be, it is a fact of life that nearly the entire music industry knows and works around. In today’s fast paced world full of handheld devices and wireless networks no one wants to sit down and listen to an entire 10-12 track LP anymore. It has gotten to the point where a great deal of musicians have given up hope writing a great deal of good music.

            It seems to be that one of the latest offenders is LCD Soundsystem. Putting on the first track of the album one may be led to think that they’re listening to the next classic. Lengthy as it may be the calm crooning of front man, James Murphy, paired with the catchy harmonies in the albums opener, “Dance Yrself Clean”, lead to what may become one of the best singles of the year.  The next song on the album, Drunk Girls, is a memorable ode to the crazy nights of drinking and debauchery that I’m sure we’ve all lived at one time or another.

            Sadly this is where the successes of this album end. There is so much filler that someone could’ve mistaken it for something made by a fast food restaurant. Now don’t get me wrong these songs have a lot of potential it just seems as if LCD Soundsystem realized they had two decent songs and just stopped trying.  The song “one touch is probably couldn’t get more generic as far as an electronic song is concerned. The rest of the album basically goes along these lines for the rest of the time.

            For their last album ever as a band (aside from the ever so popular reunion that may or may not happen ten years down the road) Murphy and the gang should have been killing themselves to create something would go down in history. Instead they seem to have gotten all too comfortable with the fact that they were breaking up. Its sad to watch great bands like this go out with a fizzle instead of what they truly deserve and could achieve.