I am not sure if any1 listens to the New York Times when it comes to music reviews, but it seems like they 'took issue' with the new LCD Soundsystem album. Feel like even though James Murphy has alternative tenure from most websites, they decided to 'pan his shit album.' I am not sure why the NY Times did this since it is a local paper, and they should probably just support local musicians.  Maybe u get 'more hits' for saying something 'blows' as opposed to praising it.

What was ur least fave part of LCD Soundsystem's This is Happening?

This music sounds fantastic, as usual — clean, tight and separated in the mix — but songwriting inspiration is in short supply. The aah-aah vocal chorus in the first track, “Dance Yrself Clean,” is not amazing enough to bring back again for the last one, “Home.”

Worried that they are 'taking down an indie legend.' Wonder if they believe that LCD Soundsystem should be part of the Buzzband Euthanasia process, where we collectively 'strip away' the credibility of formerly authentic buzzbands.  I feel like LCD Soundsystem probably have another 2 more albums/flops before buzzband euthanasia can be seriously discussed.

It seems like they called James Murphy a 'totally shitty song writer', like he sort of just poo poo-ed on the microphone for the whole album:

A lot of the words in and of themselves on “This Is Happening” — yowled, crooned or muttered as if he’s making them up on the fly — aren’t very good, except to engage you with the music. You wonder how he could share lyrics so half-baked. And paying that bit of attention brings you into the momentum and the particulars, a dry snare drum curiously low in the mix, overmodulated vocals, and extra elements brought up loudly: synth percussion, high-hat cymbals, conga drums.

But you can’t ignore those words, and the more they come to feel like branding, the more irritating they can be. Mr. Murphy specializes in circuitous or fake deep-thoughts — “complicated people never do what you tell them to” — or a kind of dopey metalanguage : “from this position, I can see both of them/from this position, I totally get how the decision was reached.” Sometimes he writes reveries that start strong but peter out, as if he wanted to rewrite David Bowie’s “Heroes” but suddenly found something better to do

is LCD Soundsystem 'still relevant'?
Did this album 'disappoint' u as a consumer/music fan?
Is there is a 'backlash' forming against LCD Soundsystem?
Will their next album be received in the same way that MGMT's album was received if they don't 'write songs like the old 1s'?
Does James Murphy need to go to songwriting classes?
Is the New York Times more influential than Pitchfork?
Will LCD Soundsystem's new album end up being the #1 album in America?

LCD Soundsystem

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LCD Soundsystem is a post-disco electro band.

Lists: received above a 9 from Pitchfork, alternative tenure, critical darlings, Brooklyn-based buzzbands

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