“Οι Gang Of Four και οι Talking Heads (ανάμεσα σε άλλους) δίνουν ραντεβού στο cyberspace” – κάπως έτσι θα μπορούσε να περιγραφεί ο ήχος των LCD Soundsystem από το Μπρούκλιν της Νέας Υόρκης, του σχήματος που ίδρυσε στα early ‘00s ο τραγουδιστής & multi-instrumentalist James Murphy. Αυτό που είναι δύσκολο φυσικά να περιγραφεί είναι η επίδραση τραγουδιών όπως αυτά τα δύο που ακούμε από το τελευταίο μέχρι στιγμής άλμπουμ τους American Dream. 📀 📀 “Gang Of Four and Talking Heads (among others) meet up in cyberspace” – that’s roughly how one could describe the sound of LCD Soundsystem from Brooklyn, New York, the band that singer & multi-instrumentalist James Murphy formed in the early ‘00s. What is naturally difficult to describe, of course, is the impact of songs like these two that we’re listening to from their latest album to date, American Dream.

00:00 OTHER VOICES
Your feet touch the floor
I just open the window and let the light in
The light burns your eyes
But it eases with each passing frame
Yeah, your head like a block
Stuffed with unwritten letters to some
Far away friends
Oh you’d write on your hand to remember
If someone, if someone would just, pass you a pen
Make your way to the toilet
These morning illusions are all part of the dance
And these doors all have locks on them
Like tinfoil hats, man
Made for resisting (other voices)
Time isn’t over, times aren’t better
So it’s letting you down
You keep dragging back to it
You keep going back to the well
Oh, that shit’s a dictator
Time won’t be messed with
Buddy, no no no
You can’t be believed
And you cannot believe what you are told
You’re still a baby now
You’re still a baby now
You’re still a baby with soft feet and everything
You’re still a baby for better or worse
Or for an hour or so
Until it’s (other voices)
Please, if you’re coming home
Take me to the side
I know that time changes
To runaway
From you
You’re still a pushover for passionate people
You’re still a pushover for passionate people
And you’re just a baby now
You’re just a baby now
With those soft hands and dull eyes
Resisting (other voices)
And you’re still a pushover for passionate people
You’re still a pushover for passionate people
You’re still a pushover for passionate people
You’re still a
Tell ’em Nancy
This is what’s happening and it’s freaking you out
I’ve heard it, heard it
And it sounds like the 90’s
Who can you trust?
And who are your friends?
Who is impossible?
And who is the enemy?
These are the halls that we’re presently haunting
And these were the people we currently haunt
Push back the walls
Push back the calendar
We’ve got, we’ve got friends who are calling us home
You’re just a baby now
You’re just a baby now
You’re just a baby now
You’re just a baby now
You’re just a baby now
You’re just a baby now
You should be uncomfortable
Fight back on me now

06:27 EMOTIONAL HAIRCUT
I’m not sure I want to step outside with my
Emotional haircut
It seems that I’ve been misunderstood
The look of great concern and the emotion in your eyes of my
Emotional haircut
It’s better to me
It’s much better than it used to be
Cause I got eyes going every which way
I got eyes all over the place
And I got tired of the hotel room and the TV
You missed that you’ve been told about whatever
Led to this emotional haircut
It ain’t a disease
It’s just harder to do whatever you please
And dream yourself tonight
To a little love life
Now we all get ideas
I know I should shut em down with the
Emotional haircut
Now I ain’t Dionysian, man
Oh no buddy, no need to be concerned with this
Emotional haircut
It’s part of the game
Yeah man, it’s just part of the feat
So let’s raise a glass to the bodies in here
Oh, raise a glass to the bodies in here
We’re gonna toast to the bodies all soak up the bass
Man, you’re in love with the bodies in here and your
Emotional haircut
Oh just get on the street
Fuck the shuffle, put this shit on repeat
You’ve got numbers on your phone of the dead that you can’t delete
And you got life-affirming moments in your past that you can’t repeat
Yeah you’ve numbers on your phone of the dead that you cannot delete
And you’re losing all your skin to bones when you just can’t sleep
I know you can’t calm down
Out of your windows and onto the streets
Out of your windows
Out to the
Out to
You know what it does
It puts me up on my feet
It puts me on the floor
But can you hear the heartbeat
Can you hear the heartbeat
Just listen to the heartbeat
But can you hear the heartbeat
Come on
Listen to it now
Listen to it now
Listen to it now
Listen to it now
Listen to it now
Listen to it now
Listen to it now
Listen
It’s coming down