LCD Soundsystem

Group / 2001 - present / United States

dance-punk electronic alternative dance new wave post-punk revival indietronica

Biography

LCD Soundsystem is an American dance-punk revival band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2002 by James Murphy, co-founder of DFA Records. The band comprises Murphy, Nancy Whang, Pat Mahoney (drums), Tyler Pope, Al Doyle, and Korey Richey. They have been signed to DFA since their inception, and also signed to Columbia Records in 2016.

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Analysed songs (10)

All My Friends

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A song about a night out that becomes a meditation on an entire adult life, as the narrator watches youth-culture rituals repeat…

aging friendship and its erosion nightlife and nostalgia

Dance Yrself Clean

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An eight-minute slow-burn opener that begins as a bruised account of social exclusion at some gathering and gradually detonates…

social exclusion and cliques the failure of language catharsis through dance

Home

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Home closes This Is Happening as a slow-building comedown song, one that treats the title word as both destination and evasion.…

escape versus arrival fear of vulnerability nightlife as ritual and anesthetic

I Can Change

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A synth-pop confession about the bargaining that happens inside a struggling relationship, built around a single pivot: the same…

self-deception in relationships the fear of change versus the need for it romantic idealization

New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down

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A love-hate valediction to a gentrifying New York, delivered as a slow-building elegy that mixes weary sociological observation…

gentrification and urban decay nostalgia versus reality ambivalent love for place

North American Scum

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A wry, self-aware address to Europeans (and to Americans who wish they were European) that turns cultural embarrassment into a…

national identity and self-deprecation cultural cringe toward Europe irony as defense mechanism

Someone Great

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A deceptively upbeat, xylophone-driven track that turns out to be about receiving news of a death and moving through the numb,…

grief and loss emotional numbness time and mortality

new body rhumba (from the film White Noise)

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A jittery dance-punk track built for a film about consumer dread and mortality, this song fuses supermarket-checkout imagery…

consumerism and self-commodification bodily alienation mortality and letting go

oh baby

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An opener built as a slow, hushed invocation—half lullaby, half plea—where James Murphy addresses a lover (or a version of…

vulnerability and reassurance doubt within intimacy addiction and self-forgiveness

tonite

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An older musician surveys the disposable pop landscape—every hit song reduced to a single word repeated like a mantra—and uses…

mortality and finitude aging out of cultural relevance pop music as mass ritual