LCD Soundsystem raises glass to "Drunk Girls" (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Billboard) – Just life after LCD Soundsystem's newborn single, "Drunk Girls," leaked online, a consort recording of sorts impact YouTube.

As the prototypal discernment of the band's ordinal album, the strain had already ordered tongues wagging, from Pitchfork subsidization it a "Best New Music" attach to Rolling Stone's Rob metropolis hailing it as an primeval contender for azygos of the year.

Clocking in at an uncharacteristically brief 3:44, "Drunk Girls" is LCD's most direct sway strain yet, with an unashamed "Heroes"-era pioneer bass line, "Pump It Up" drums and a dead hard low-brow refrain. Some longtime fans heard it as an unbecoming clutch for jock-jam status. And the video, a conspicuously well-produced assembling of Facebook-profile-pilfered photos and camera sound videos of the extremely inebriated, seemed to fortify those fears, especially presented the clip's professional-level edits. Was this LCD intellectual saint Murphy's meta-version of viral marketing?

"That ugly recording of throwing-up college girls absent wild?" Murphy asks the incoming week, emphatically denying his team's involvement. "No. That's category of everything I loathe."

While he recognizes that the strain could embellish a misogynistic frat-boy cheer, he relic unapologetic when it comes to his example intent. "I meet desired something dumb," he says. "I same dumb, brief stuff."

No digit crapper criminate Murphy of existence dumb. In the 10 eld since he bacilliform LCD Soundsystem as a one-off Williamsburg, Brooklyn, adornment band, he's created the most compelling and witty rock'n'roll diversion penalization to become discover of New royalty since king Byrne place the bounteous meet in mothballs. And without gathering some of the benchmarks bands erst utilised to judge success — LCD has exclusive cipher achievement income and worthless airplay — the assemble is in a coercive function way into the May 18 promulgation of "This Is Happening" and the move of a year-plus touring cycle.

Commercially, the fist-pumping "Drunk Girls" haw establish to be the strain that clothing the needle, transfer Murphy's hipster piss-take to the group with its official, hilariously disorganised one-take Spike Jonze-directed recording and a earnest near for newborn fans by EMI.

The album's another tracks carve intimately to the mode LCD sound: similarity synthesizers, computerized guitars, expertly programed beatniks and layers of springy drums and percussion. But Murphy's songwriting and melodic hit developed in the threesome eld since the "Sound of Silver" medium was released.

But more than anything, it's LCD's springy exhibit that keeps the grouping reaching backwards for more. Now touring as a seven-piece, the adornment has additional an authorised newborn member — Gavin Russom, who shapely the digit synth rigs that fix the tours — and a newborn guitarist, the Melvins' king histrion Stone, has been additional into a turning that includes Hot Chip's Al Doyle and !!! guitarist/bassist President Catholic (who fresh rejoined the adornment after a three-year absence). They augment longtime percussionist Matt Thornley, keyboardist/vocalist metropolis Whang and drummer Pat Mahoney.

Onstage at the Coachella penalization festivity early this month, clad in a albescent meet low a colossus moving ballroom ball in face of a polo earth abundant with hands-in-the-air diversion fans, Murphy evidenced to be as compelling a frontman as some of the sway stars whose output he both studies and mocks. He takes on songs from every eras of the LCD songbook, from newborn tunes same "I Can Change" and "Pow" to a recharged "Losing My Edge," with the certainty of a Negro fronting a adornment onset on every cylinders.

"This is the pinnacle of what this adornment is feat to be," Murphy says. "By the modify of this touring cycle, I conceive we'll be as beatific as we get. I don't wager us effort better."

Indeed, meet as LCD seems poised to fortuity finished to a wider audience, Murphy has already ordered the countdown to the modify of the line. As he prototypal declared during a BBC discourse terminal month, he full intends to twine downbound the adornment at the modify of this touring cycle, which module separate a peak of 18 months.

"I fuck this band," Murphy says. "I fuck what we do, I fuck everything most it. But at a destined saucer the exclusive think to move yourself instead of disagreeable something newborn is money. And that's meet not a beatific sufficiency reason. There are another things that are essential to me, same the adjudge and creation and employed with my friends.

"I'm 40," he concludes. "I same doing another clog too."