No Love Lost

LCD Soundsystem - No Love Lost (Joy Division Cover) (buy)

I remember the Tuesday in May that Weezer released the Green Album. Five years after Pinkerton, and exactly nine years before today I asked my mom on that high school morning if she could pick it up. I'd heard "Hash Pipe" on the radio enough times to know that in my young music life there was nothing that compared to my anticipation for Weeer's third full-length. Knowing nothing about it, I got home that afternoon excited in a way I can't even relate to today and unpackaged the CD. Frowning at the recycled album art I put the disc in the stereo and sat down on the living room floor. And for all of its 28 minutes I just sat there.

After a three year hiatus, LCD Soundsytem today released their third (and supposedly final) LP. And although it features questionable artwork that would allow you to easily mistake James Murphy for Michael Buble, it's probably going to be really fucking good.

I've intentionally limited my exposure to the album, hearing each of its singles only once or twice because I want the album to feel like an album again. Now that the internet hype machines have learned to ravage an album for its singles and spit out the rest, it happens less frequently that a band makes a group of songs that may be better together than they are apart. Premature as it can be for me to say, This Is Happening has a chance to be one of those. And so does any other LP in which the average song length is a whopping 7 minutes. Is there a better way to defeat the single than by making long, radio un-friendly cuts?

Buy This Is Happening on compact disc or vinyl or mp3. Just don't read Pitchfork until you've heard the whole thing.