LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum (DFA Records)
4/5
By: Alex Lee Thomson
James Murphy and the Rockfeedback massive used to have a shared interest; we both had Daft Punk playing in our houses. Now however we seem to have cast the oldies aside for LCD Soundsystem themselves, and at last we've got some new material in the form of a transcendent album and new single... this being a sexy, trendy and tremendous model of such.
'North American Scum' is a glimpse into what Murphy has been formulating during his absence from our clubs over the past year and with it he's reinstated LCD as the true establishment of this so called new-rave scene. Let's not forget that if it weren't for the Soundsystem, The Klaxons probably wouldn't have been given a second look, jaw-droppingly amazing as they are (remembers a sold out Stoke gig that had a few hundred people wielding glow sticks like nobody's business to music that'd make you want to explode).
The sub David Byrne meets Mark E Smith vocals that tiptoe throughout only add more solidity to a song that though simple, enchantingly simple, holds up harder and tighter than a motorcyclists g-string. It's funny how this band continues to produce great dance music no matter how they cut it as though they're the uber trend setters for all that follows, or they've been given a magic ball that allows them to look ten weeks into the future... or maybe they, and their music, are just so bleedin' cool that it doesn't matter what came before, after or during - it's all immaterial.
LCD Soundsystem are snippily unpolluted and liberated, the kind of guys you'd want to play at you house party... 'Skins' style... and you certainly wouldn't be disillusioned if they span this, or the number of trendy remixes that escort it, throughout the night. Bo. Rewind.
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