LCD Soundsystem

Call it punk-funk or disco/post-rock -- LCD Soundsystem deliver where electronica-rock hybrids fail. All-new material on the first disc, and classics on the bonus; the uptempo songs contain dirty gritty grooves with witty lyrics, while the downtempo tracks are emotive and soulful. It's Aphex Twin, the Fall, Oasis and MC5. It rocks.

A New Jersey-born punk in a dance-floor world, James Murphy brings rock and disco
together with the DFA label and his work with partner Tim Goldsworthy. (The duo is best
known as the team behind the Rapture's Echoes.) Murphy's project LCD Soundsystem got
attention in 2002, thanks to the butt-shaking single "Losing My Edge," a savagely
self-mocking track that sent up hipsters of all ages and stripes. With LCD Soundsy... More >

Dance guy or rock guy, optimist or cynic--these are the troubling distinctions irony helps keep at bay ("Losing My Edge," "On Repeat"). (Grade - *)