I'm often late to the party. Particularly when it comes to electronic music. There's always been a high hurdle between me and electronic for some reason. Drum machines and casiotones rarely grab me the way good old-fashioned guitars do.So I didn't join the legions to the latest LCD Soundsystem record, This is Happening, when it was released in May. I just didn't get around to it. But then I saw the crazy, Clockwork Orange-like video for "Drunk Girls" and I was hooked.
If you've read about this record, you've probably read great things. It's been universally praised, praise that I think is well deserved. The album's 9 tracks bubble and bounce through indie guitar rock ("All I Want") and electro-key jams ("Can Change") in an inspired post punk stew. There's a lot of late '70s sounds here that often recall Eno and Bowie. But all with an unmistakable, contemporary studio polish.
