James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem's mastermind, hits hard with his new album There are probably more peaceable ways to usher an album into the world than with a single called "North American Scum." But if you're James Murphy, the mastermind and frontman of LCD Soundsystem, peaceable is hardly what you're going for. Brash and propulsive is more like it, and by those criteria the track fulfills its calling. It may be lousy as diplomacy, but it's a monster on the dance floor.
In other words, "North American Scum" is both vintage LCD Soundsystem and a textbook specimen of disco- punk, the subgenre that Murphy helped foment. The track bears some of his sonic trademarks: throbbing bass line, thudding kick drum, the snap of hi-hats and hand claps. It also has his attitude, an uneasy whorl of self- loathing and self-aggrandizing laced with casually stinging social critique.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/20/news/discopunk.php EDIT: you can stream the new album on LCD's
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