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This Is Happening [Import]

Lcd Soundsystem Audio CD
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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2010 release, the third album proper from James Murphy's LCD Soundsystem, follows 2007's warmly received 'Sounds Of Silver'. Musically inspired by late 1970's David Bowie, This Is Happening also has artwork that directly references Bowie's classic 1979 album Lodger. The record retains Murphy's idiosyncratic sense of humour and includes the single 'Drunk Girls'. EMI.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This Is Happening - LCD Soundsystem Sep 11 2012
Format:Audio CD
James Murphy has quite the resume! His 2004 debut and 2007's Sound of Silver really challenged the boundries between traditional electronic music and the triple A alternative music experience. He has such a unique style that is ever so present in Is This Happening. The album starts with a bang, Dance Yrself Clean is 9 minutes of Murphy's creative juices flowing and setting the stage for the rest of this terrific album. Drunk Girls is a comical perspective of a night out of partying and drinking (not unlike his past works). One Touch is an irresistable party number, All I Want is sweet and adds weight and emotion to the album. I Can Change is a terrifically well writtin masterpiece, and Home is one of the best concluding tracks I can remember since the Radiohead days. Have I said enouph?
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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New York's LCD Soundsystem has been artfully twiddling with musical conventions for several years now; it has pretty much become the benchmark for consciously hip electro-punk.

This Is Happening follows 2007's much-name-dropped album The Sound Of Silver and further affirms the fact that this is more of a clever `project' than a band.

Main man James Murphy dominates the songs (typical sleeve credits include `James Murphy: drums, Yamaha CS60, Roland TR-606, noise, vocals, claps, glockenspiel...') and plays fast and loose with a swathe of genres.

What's surprising, though, is that all this immaculate coolness is so fantastically easy to warm to.
This Is Happening is purportedly a swansong for LCD Soundsystem.

If that does turn out to be true, then Murphy has gone out with a bang and a starburst of future possibilities opening up through the à la mode DFA record label he co-founded.

Its nine fairly lengthy numbers bristle with invention and the instinctively snappy appeal of classic pop.

Murphy has always spiked his tunes with self-effacing humour (right back to 2002 single Losing My Edge) but here it sounds sharper and brighter than ever, from the deliciously louche rock groove of Drunk Girls (`Just 'cuz I'm shallow doesn't mean that I'm heartless') to the sweet and sour romance of I Can Change and All I Want.

He's still a tricky, contrary creature - on You Wanted A Hit he protests `but maybe that's not what we do'.

Maybe not, but he is capable of turning on a lot of new listeners beyond a knowing niche crowd.

Finally, LCD Soundsystem sound like an in-joke that everyone gets - and that really is happening.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Another solid album from LCD Jan 26 2011
By Ryan G
Format:Audio CD
Totally disagree with reviewer that gives this album 1 star. The only track on this album that I wasn't a fan of is Drunk girls. This album takes a couple of listens to warm up to it, but thats the same as a lot good music. I have their first 2 albums and this one is a little different. 4 and half stars.
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