Most great artists differentiate styles throughout their careers. Example: Radiohead started out with a traditional britpop sound that dominated through hits of "Creep" and "Karma Police", but in 2000 they shocked the world and realeased the twitchy electronic album Kid A that led Radiohead into their more glitched and electronic sound and then 2003 they combined both traditional rock with their electronic sound on Hail To the Thief.
Well enough on Radiohead, point is that most great artist swing into different stages of their style. But when it comes to LCD Soundsystem. James Murphy has stayed very consistent with the dance-punk style. 2005 marked the year LCD Soundsystem's debut album LCD Soundsystem bringing in a fun and exciting sound of electronic dance tunes. Again, James Murphy delivers with a more crafty album, Sound of Silver, which still had very addictive tunes.
Now Murphy releases the long awaited third and supposed final LP This Is Happening. "Drunk Girls", the first single from the LP, was released prior to the LP's release. "Drunk Girls" is one of those very short (for Murphy that is) singles that you can't get enough of. Behind the song's very simplistic take, are very hilarious lyrics and an even more funny music video. "Drunk girls are boringly wild," croons Murphy.
Besides the very short single of "Drunk Girls", This Is Happening offers the same fun seven minute electronic dance anthems that the first two LPs offered. From the Eric Johnson-like guitar work of "All I Want" to '70s disco inspired "I Can Change", it's all essential LCD Soundsystem that is a blast to listen to.
Love is a very popular theme of This Is Happening. Especially from "I Can Change", "Love is an open book to a verse of your bad poetry". Of course love has always been a popular theme of James Murphy, dating back to his debut.
As I mentioned before, LCD Soundsystem has kept the same style and yet still had immense popularity. Maybe it's for the best that this will be the last album from this project. But still the fun lyrics and dance hits will be missed from the master mind of James Murphy.
Overall: 8.6/10
Track Listing:
1). Dance Yrself Clean - 9.0 *
2). Drunk Girls - 8.5 *
3). One Touch - 8.5
4). All I Want - 9.5 *
5). I Can Change - 8.5
6). You Wanted a Hit - 8.5
7). Pow Pow - 9.0 *
8). Somebody's Calling Me - 8.0
9). Home - 8.5
* - Notable Track
Sample:
"Drunk Girls"
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