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James Murphy donne des nouvelles du prochain album du LCD Soundsystem dont la sortie ne devrait pas trop tarder. En attendant, deux morceaux seront dispos ce soir minuit: Call The Police et American Dream.
Et le tout est annoncé dans un message ultra sympa à l'image du bonhomme. Où on apprend notamment que la date de publication du nouveau LP dépend de celle de la tournée de Shellac. Vous ne voyez pas le rapport? Enjoy!

"in other news, we're releasing 2 songs tonight at midnight (and i mean, literally, midnight. wherever you are. so, like, australia first, and so on and so forth) via the digital things that people use now on their devices. these songs are named "call the police" and "american dream". we played them both at brooklyn steel. they're new. i (james) mixed "american dream" DFA Studios, and my friend dave sardy mixed "call the police" at his sweet place in LA last week, and shuttled them quickly to the great bob weston (at Chicago Mastering Service) to master them so we could get them out today.
seriously almost done with the LP. 1 more vocal and 2 more mixes to go. as eager as folks have been for me to get this done, it's got nothing on how much i want to be finished myself. it's been one of the most enjoyable records to make in my life, if not the most fun ever (i think it is, for sure, the happiest i've ever been making a record.) so it will be sad in some ways to see it leave the house etc., but we're really looking forward to not feeling "late" all the time, and being able to do things like plan a weekend to do something fun. or respond to an email about eating with a friend with something other than "i'm sorry! i'm totally buried in the LP! check with me in a month?"

so, to answer some inevitable questions:

Q. but when is the ALBUM coming out!?!! gahh! SERiously!!

A. that's hard to say in specific, but here's some info. i insist that there is vinyl on the day it's released (because... well... because i'm an old person) so it will go like this: finish last mix > get to bob to master > get masters to pressing plant > plant takes X amount of time > records get to distro so that they can go to stores > record released. however long that takes = when the record will be out. i can control the first part, and i'm furiously trying to get everything to bob before shellac goes on tour and that pushes things further back, and then there's the jockeying for position in line at pressing plants, and various other things i don't control nor fully understand, but i've been assured by folks i trust that there are a series of fast runners in sweat wicking clothing waiting at the line for the baton to then bolt forward...

Q. is there vinyl of this release?!?

A. no. see above. time makes that hard. also, these are album versions, so they'll be available on vinyl on the LP. i'm not doing "b-sides" for this, as this is, essentially, a "double A side" release. meaning that there isn't one song i'm like "oh this is THE song" and another song that i'm like "well, this one can go on the other side" with these. it's not a 7", nor a 10" nor a 12", in theory or format for me... these are just 2 songs that we wanted to get out to the lovely and patient (and some less patient, but one assumes equally lovely) people who want new music. there may be "singles" on vinyl of these later, if that seems to make sense and not be dumb. depends on whether there are smart things to put on a b-side. they're not necessarily things i'd want remixes of, so it's more about whatever else would go with the songs. there is a LOT of new music--much more than i usually have, so we're puzzling through all that.

Q. are you guys playing any SHOWS?? near ME??

A. well, that depends on where you live. but our plan is indeed to play shows near where people live. and no, not just festivals. that's all being planned as well. we loved playing the Brooklyn Steel shows, and we're just in a funny place, in terms of understanding what size venues/how many nights we should play in various places. we generally prefer medium sized venues over huge ones, but we also loathe overpriced stubhub bullshit, so we're navigating this as best we can. honestly, a lot of this is down to me (james, still) being difficult when talking to our very lovely and capable managers and agents w/r/t larger venues... i'm always like "that seems insane!" when a properly big venue is proposed, since we've only ever played hollywood bowl, red rocks and MSG, all of which were "special" shows, so it's just hard to get our heads around the fact that maybe many more people that we assumed want to see us perhaps DO want to see us. it's been a very nice revelation, but oh dear it's still hard to make sense of.
what we don't want: us in some mega-dome (looking like we think we belong in some mega-dome) playing to 1/16th of a full room, while someone says things like "well, we can curtain off the balconies so it doesn't look so bad," after telling us "you have to charge $180 a ticket for it to make any sense."

what we also don't want: tickets to our shows being sold for $1000 on eBay, and people who like our band standing outside crying because they bought some bogus barcode from some shit-heel scalper.
what we want: full shows that aren't so big that you feel like you need binoculars to see if pat is actually behind the drums or if it's louis ck or something.

anyway, this has been a communication from the desk of JM. now i need to get some oatmeal and go to work.
love,
us"

Il m'avait manqué le bougre

Http://www.spin.com/2017/05/lcd-soundsystem-call-the-police-listen/

Call The Police est en écoute!

Https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zWKIWNJnlzI

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ML1MUKOJIIo

Les deux nouveaux morceaux en entier. James Murphy nous refait le coup de la fausse reprise de Heroes par New Order dans la première et une superbe ballade synthpop pour la deuxième.

Ça déchire!

Les deux nouveaux morceaux en live au SNL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n48Qyzdm3kQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ0Y89PbGuA

J'avoue avoir eu du mal à accrocher à Call The Police au début. Le morceau n'est pas mauvais loin de là mais je lui trouvais une trop grande ressemblance avec All My Friends dans la construction et avec un morceau de New Order sur lequel je n'arrivais pas à mettre le nom. Et puis je ne sais pas s'il a pris des cours pendant la pause de LCD Soundsystem mais je trouve que la voix de James Murphy ressemble à celle de Bono. Et c'est vrai que la chanson a un petit côté U2.
Mais en live je trouve que ça passe beaucoup mieux!

American Dream est une chouette ballade synthpop à la Soft Cell, pas grandiose mais elle fait le boulot.

Pour l'instant ce qui me manque dans ces nouveaux morceaux c'est des percus, de la cowbell, bref moins de pop et plus de disco
J'espère que l'album saura corriger le tir.

Et le morceau de New Order auquel Call The Police me fait penser c'est Procession:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7ESIclwccg

C'est vrai que la ressemblance est frappante mais la musique de James Murphy a toujours été ultra-référencée et assumée comme telle.

Des nouvelles du prochain album de LCD Soundsystem qui devrait sortir en juillet!
Tout est expliqué dans un post de James Murphy sur FB:

"hello humans. this is just a note to say that we're done with the record. like, totally done with the music and mixing. just some art stuff to finish, but it's been mastered already and the lacquers are winging their way to the pressing plant (which is, i think, where they'll make the mothers and stampers, etc.). i've been wrangling the fastest route between final mix and record release for the past few weeks so that there isn't such a lag, and i think it'll be soon. 6 weeks is the very fastest, i think, but it will likely be longer than that. just trying to get all the ducks in a row so that there's someone with a catcher's mitt waiting at each stage. we mixed the last song last wednesday, and korey ran to (a national overnight carrier) to get it to bob weston over at Chicago Mastering Service for the next morning. then we took off to play sasquatch in washington, and now i'm home proofreading lyrics and credits and all that crap. sorry it took so long, honestly. i didn't think it would, but i, once again, underestimated the distractions inherent in touring and living a "life". this will be the last record at the original DFA Studios, as we're closing that down after the building was sold, so there's a lot to digest for me. i've been there nearly 20 years now, and i wasn't a particularly young man when it opened, so there's that.
anyway, be well, thank you for yr patience (even when it manifested as semi-angry "where the fuck is the RECORD< james!" posts!) and very much looking forward to getting this to you.
james"

Les 13 & 14 septembre à l'Olympia, ouverture des résa ce vendredi, 10h.

Album le 1er septembre! \

Très bons choix de faire deux Olympia plutôt que de céder à la facilité de faire un Zenith. Malheureusement, les dates à Paris sont en semaine


D'ailleurs, toute la tournée sera dans cet esprit de jouer dans des salles moyennes, au risque de créer des problèmes de marché noir au grand regret de James Murphy (à propos des concerts passés et à venir à Brooklyn):

"hi there again...
i really just wanted to say something about these new shows in brooklyn.
last time we played Brooklyn Steel, we did 5 nights, and the tickets sold out quickly. everyone got very mad, and we in the band got all upset, and there were cries of bots, etc.. so we dug in, worked with the promoter to delete a bunch of questionable transactions, tried to control tickets the best we could, and discovered that it was actually very few pro scalpers and bots. (fact is, scalpers were announcing tickets for sale to our show before they were even available at all, with the idea that they could put out crazy prices in the beginning, and if anyone bit, they'd scramble to try to find a ticket, or, well, i guess sell a fake one). the fact was that there were many more people who wanted to see us than we had tickets for, which is awesome and a bummer at the same time.
outside of all that, the shows were very fun for us. we were close to home and the crowd was fucking great. we got the idea that we should do it again as soon as possible in hopes that more people who wanted to see us but missed us could come see us then. and this is the first time when both we and the venue had a block of dates available in a row, so here we are. 7 nights. with the 5 before it's like, more than a big venue, which we hope will be just fine.
i had a lot of back and forth about these shows with our very wonderful, concerned, thoughtful and on it managers and agents, and the professional consensus was that playing them was, frankly, a bad idea. to explain: we just did this in april, so they might seem "less special" now. for reasons i can't seem to quantify, the earlier gigs were considered special, so they were in higher demand and sold out very quickly. but the undermining of some of the specialness is precisely what we'd love to accomplish with these gigs. they're just some gigs. they're in our home town, so we can totally walk there. they're no more special than any other gigs. nothing unusual will be happening, other than what always happens at our gigs, which is us playing a bunch of songs as well as we can. we're going to be playing a LOT in the near future, so they're certainly not worth getting on a plane for, in our opinion. it's NOT a finite resource. it is certainly 100% not worth paying some crazy amount over face value for them. we're playing in other places this year, a lot, and that's likely close to wherever it is you live (unless you live far from things, which i'm sorry about—but it still wouldn't be worth flying to these.)
playing more seems to be the best antidote. unless we play big places, which are ok sometimes, but not our favorite things all the time. or, if i read some blogs correctly, we should charge way, way more for the tickets. this isn't interesting for us mainly because people with a lot of extra money aren't the only people we want to play to. (don't get me wrong: we're aware that if the tickets are, like, $15, they just get resold for a lot more, and we sit there like morons wondering how we're going to pay our crew, but, you know...) the last solution, which i like, is requiring an ID which matches your ticket. this is somehow still totally illegal here in new york, which makes me pretty bonkers.
so, that's where we are. here are some shows which we're really excited to play, and we think are worth maybe precisely what the tickets cost. and maybe if no one buys a scalped ticket for more than the face value, the room will feel a little empty, but at least we'll be done with this crap once and for all, as scalpers aren't in it to troll music fans—they're in it to make money, and if no one feeds them, the natural consequence is that they'll just thin way the fuck out.
thank you guys for reading.
james"

"ok. on it as quickly as i'm finding things out. so it's all sold out. there are cries of bots here and there, but truth be told we've been smashing bots all morning. and tomorrow our "team" will be pouring through the purchases and deleting anything that breaks the rules or looks suspicious, which could possibly free up some more tickets.
on another, more important note: JUST DON'T BUY ANY TICKETS ONLINE!!! many people on stubhub, once again, listed tickets for sale BEFORE ANY TICKETS WERE AVAILABLE, which means that they're fake. last show, a bunch of people bought fake tickets, for a LOT of money. we can't let you in with fake tickets. not because they're "fake and we're mean", but because the venue has a legal capacity, and we fill it, which means we LEGALLY can't let more people in! if you have a friend, who you, like, KNOW, who has a ticket for sale (and if they're a friend, they'll sell it to you for face value) i'd feel comfortable with buying that, but don't buy tickets from strangers on craigslist, eBay, online, ANYWHERE. remove the food supply, starve the parasite.
if you bought a ticket and you can't go, and you don't know of anyone who wants to buy it, i'm scrambling to find a way to deal with some safe and controlled face-value exchange. i can't guarantee it'll work, but we're working on it. shit, it might just be me buying them from you after verifying that they're valid, then selling them myself at face value. i don't know. but i'm working on it. we're not trying to stick you with a ticket you can't use!
anyway, looking forward to tomorrow!
j
PS. seriously. DON'T BUY EXPENSIVE TICKETS! so incredibly not our last show. we'll be right back."

Quand je vois les dérives qu'entraîne la reformation de LCD Soundsystem, qui est pourtant un groupe dont la réputation reste confidentielle, je n'imagine pas la folie que ça serait si Daft Punk devait faire de nouveaux concerts

J'espère que vous avez été rapides, les deux Olympia sont déjà blindés.

Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqq3BtGrpU8

Nouveau morceau Tonite avant la sortie de l'album le 1er septembre.

Je regrettais le manque de disco sur les deux premiers morceaux et bien me voilà servi avec ce nouveau titre moroderesque. ça me rappelle aussi les débuts de la synth-pop encore très influencée par Kraftwerk, Orchestral Manoeuvres in The Dark ou les premiers The Human League notamment. D'ailleurs, LCD joue à fond la carte du revival, de toute façon James Murphy ne s'en est jamais caché. Le clip aurait très bien pu être tourné en 1982 quand on voit le grain de l'image, la déco, les synthés.
Bon ce n'est pas encore un chef d'oeuvre mais j'adore ce groove qui monte progressivement pendant que James Murphy délivre d'un chant presque parlé un nouveau texte tragi-comique sur la crise de la quarantaine et sur le temps qui passe et l'art comme moyen de l'oublier mais en vain.

Encore un peu plus de deux semaines à attendre !

L'album est très bon !! Coups de coeur persos pour "Oh Baby", "Other Voices" et "Black Screen". "Call the Police" et "American Dream", qu'on connaissait déjà depuis un moment, font pour moi partie des meilleurs morceaux aussi.

Tiens c'est marrant, ce sont les 3 mêmes morceaux qui m'ont immédiatement accrochés lors de ma première écoute!

En attendant la sortie de l'album demain, LCD Soundsystem a mis en ligne un instrumental téléchargeable gratuitement:
https://lcdsoundsystem.wetransfer.com/downloads/5d ... oundsystem

Le morceau dure près de 15mn, c'est de la disco épique à la 45:33

Je trouvais déjà une ressemblance entre Zombie Zombie et LCD Soundsystem mais là sur ce Pulse v1 c'est frappant

1ère écoute et il se pourrait bien que ce soit mon préféré du groupe. Excellente surprise.