LCD Soundsystem - 'American Dream'
1st September 2017
Score ***
'LCD’s return to the spotlight with their 4th album American Dream '
BY BEN LANCASTER
September 2nd 2017
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LCD Soundsystem - 'American Dream'
BY BEN LANCASTER
September 2nd 2017
No one breaks up forever anymore and since LCD Soundsystem hit the 2016 festival circuit with sporadic appearances everyone’s been hyped for something new from them and here it is LCD’s return to the spotlight with their 4th album American Dream. We have to say this was worth the wait; American Dream is the kind of album you can play on repeat start to finish and the tracks will only grow on you more and more.
For LCD fans out there this album delivers all the same Post Punk, New Wave and 80’s electronic driven sounds as before but perhaps more melancholic and darker.
Since it all kicked off with the debut single Losing My Edge released in 2005 back when James Murphy was 32, he has always written about fears of being too old to be relevant in the music scene. 15 years on from there age is still a topic within this album: “In the morning when everything’s clearer and the sunlight exposes your age but that’s ok”. It feels Murphy is more comfortable with the subject than before and the fear of irrelevance has been pushed aside. We definitely don’t think reforming LCD Soundsystem can be a bad thing and nor does he, stating in a recent interview: “my wife thinks it’s ok, the other band members think it’s ok, Bowie thought it was ok, so fuck everybody!”
'this is still undeniably classic LCD Soundsystem'
You can hear influences from Bowie, Iggy, Gang of Four and even the violins on “How do you sleep” feel like a tip of the hat to The Velvet Underground but this is still undeniably classic LCD Soundsystem and these tunes will slot in right along side the previous ones.
