Thank you, James Murphy.

Songs for days when you are broken #17
This is me today #25
You've got to have fear in your heart#8


LCD Soundsystem's "45:33" is a concept album, an exercise in marketing, a trial for a (then) upcoming album and an exploration into disco, in all of its guises.



From cosmic to leftfield to four-on-the-floor beats to soft and mildly ambient synths.

This album/EP came out over three years ago and I am still not sick of it. Murphy has recently seen to it that remixes of some of the tracks have been done by such people as Pilooski and Theo Parrish. They barely touch the sonics in this track, and it's all the better. It's not really a "danceable" track (not that it should stop them), but it packs such a punch, a deep in your guts electronic pulse that it's almost useless to try and play with it. We leave that to Mr. Muprhy who would go on to play with it later on.

The 2nd (or 3rd portion, depending on what cuts/edition you have) is probably my favorite. Although I am known to drop the next part when I spin records at parties, this is the one I pull out more often when I am looking for rainy days songs, or for a little bit of disco zen.

The song would later be re-cut and re-edited to be used in the song "Someone Great", my favorite track on "Sound Of Silver". To be honest, it was my least favorite the first time I heard it. I thought of it as a bit of a throw away.

Then one night at a friend's summer party, we sat outside, with the song blaring through the windows. It was in the middle of nowhere, and that lonesome lull of a synth-laden bassline hooked me. Right in the heart.

And then I listened. Really listened. And I understood.

The instrumental version does not have the same lyrical push to it, but I feel that by listening to it, I feel like the two songs are almost palimpsests of one another. You get the feeling it conveys, even without the melancoly lyrics. And you still feel the open space even when you concentrate on the words being spoken-sung to you.