LCD Soundsystem - American Dream - 9/1/17

Certainly when they want to foreground subtle themes. Like, if you start encountering claims that this is a concept album about a man having a breakdown while working at a mall sushi stand, yeah, let me see that press release.

well that's cool, i like when singles fake out the album

If I were an artist with a highly anticipated upcoming album, I would release two identically titled and track-listed albums with totally different music at the same time, just to read the wildly divergent reviews and wait until everyone figured out what happened.

As a fan I think I'd think it was really cool that my favorite band had secretly released two albums at the same time.

*would buy yr merch for a first row ticket*

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Each of my seemingly identical albums would secretly include a download code for the other album, because that's only right. Also, they would both be album of the year. And my concerts would not have a front row at all, like the 13th floors in hotels it just won't be there.

No front row? No progress bar? I'm out.

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Honestly, this thread always makes me think one of you crazy contrarians has revived CSNY discussion.

I always loved the idea of an artist making a crappy fake leak ahead of time to fool people

I don't know if anyone's actually done it - IIRC some semi-big name did - but I do remember a lot of people suspecting that Daft Punk and Weezer had done such a thing

yeah didn't Tool do that with Lateralus? or did they just announce a fake title & tracklist?

If I were an artist with a highly anticipated upcoming album, I would release two identically titled and track-listed albums with totally different music at the same time, just to read the wildly divergent reviews and wait until everyone figured out what happened

Old Man Gloom did something very close to this with The Ape Of God.

I think one of the early ones was that No Doubt album where the song titles were right, but each one was just a loop of one part of the song

I remember because the single was literally "feelin' hella good so let's just keep on dancin'" and a couple instrumental stabs... repeated for a couple minutes

I think Madonna did it once?

I think one of the early ones was that No Doubt album where the song titles were right, but each one was just a loop of one part of the song

I remember because the single was literally "feelin' hella good so let's just keep on dancin'" and a couple instrumental stabs... repeated for a couple minutes

lol that rules

ive been trying to think of a single musician or artist i like who was all "I am really concerned bout my legacy".

nope. its some politician bullshit.

there was also the classic merriweather post pavilion leak

you mean when it leaked on Christmas at 8pm or something? yeah that was incredible & one of the best experiences of my life

nah when roxymuzak (?) pissed off a lot of dorks by leaking a fake version

album is ok but unspectacular, 'dark' just means a little more post-punk gloom, including a decent cure pastiche

I Used To is one of my favourite things they've done. I'm guessing that's the Cure pastiche?

for sure sounds like a self-consciously "mature" LCD Soundsystem album. there's a lot of things to like in it, but I can't see it displacing any of the others as a favorite.

Some review said this sounded like a James solo album, but I disagree. I think it sounds very much like a band-in-a-room record. I mean, not radically different from the last couple, but maybe a little more spare. Even more Berlin/Eno Bowie than before, if that's possible. I like it so far (not least because, well, Eno/Bowie, I mean, come on), but I would have liked it better without out the preemptive anticlimactic reunion preamble.

Change Yr. Mind is totally a riff on Eno's "No One Receiving."

I guess I wish there was more of a point to the Bowie/Joy Division/Eno nods, but I admit he could do worse than nod to stuff I like.

Eh, ok, this is totally an album in the old fashioned sense, with a side A and side B. I really liked everything I heard up until and including "Tonite," which I'd call the end of Side A. Then everything from "Call the Police" to "Black Screen" ... I dunno, there were some moments that really annoyed me, and I'm not sure "Black Screen" comes close to justifying its 12 minutes as a closer.

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I love the weird cut up guitar solos.

American Dreams and Emotional Haircut drag a bit, but otherwise I really like the album. Black Screen is devastating, and overall he seems to try some new things, weirder rhythms, weirder flourishes. He could kinda do this thing for decades, I reckon.

I keep singing/thinking "I could be wrong/I could be right/..." over "Oh Baby".

"Change Yr Mind" sounds like if you slammed the spirit of 'Scary Monsters' and 'Remain in Light' together. Awesome track.

This is most obviously post punk record they've done. I've seen a few reviews that call this a traditional LCD Soundsystem album and I don't get that sentiment at all? The dance punk stuff is pretty much totally missing. "Tonite" is about the only thing that sounds obvious self-referrential.

I think this might be my favorite album with them? But I've never considered them an album band before. There's nothing as good as Yeah or All My Friends on here, but the whole thing really coheres.

You don't think the first half is way better than the second (which is like half Black Screen)?

i love Black Screen. It dips towards the end, sure. But they've never had an opener as good as Oh Baby, and never a closer as good as Black Screen. I think. And it helps that the long tracks are the weirder atmospheric ones, instead of the dance-punk epics.

I'm really into this album. I was so much more excited for This Is Happening coming out (I'm guessing most people were) but my early feelings are this is the better record. The whole album sounds so natural and is a very cohesive listen.

I agree, but the last album is still better.

But they've never had an opener as good as Oh Baby,

better than 'Dance Yrself Clean'???

happy to see the turnaround in tenor itt. i'll listen to this at midnight, sounds good. never was super into LCD but i dig several songs here and there.

have loved all of the singles and cannot wait for this

'I used to' is really great

Yes, I prefer Oh Baby to Dance Yrself Clean. Kitchen Person is right that it sounds very natural. DYC is very much an 'opener' and it feels a tiny bit forced. I still like it, but Oh Baby works better for me.

wow someone loves Remain in Light

Not as much as I love Oh Baby. Had it on repeat the last half hour. God, it's great.

lol the cover art was for real

oh baby great opener (but dance yrself clean was genius)

I was thinking that this was pretty good, prefer it to the last album, at least they didn't fuck it up, put it away and never listen again etc etc and then I got to Call The Police and realised it's actually fucking great.

The cover makes sense in light of the lyrics as well. Strange lack of Trump hot takes so far.

I've never really enjoyed their albums completely but this one is definitely the first one that feels like a complete effort.

"How Do You Sleep?" is my favorite so far.The descriptions I read of it before hearing it made it sounds like a long slough but instead every moment of it is engaging.The beginning of it almost sounds like if LCD started by trying to rip off "In a Lonely Place" by New Order and went somewhere else with the idea.

"Other Voices" really is a watered-down rewrite of "Born Under Punches," down to the Belew-like guitar squonk. But without the big, hooky chorus.

This is boring me so far.

Not as much as I love Oh Baby. Had it on repeat the last half hour. God, it's great.

I was talking about the album lol. there are 2 songs that straight rip Born Under Punches & The Great Curve

It's funny that there's a Cure ripoff on this album and it's not the song literally called "other voices"