The phenomenal news is that the first LCD Soundsystem album in seven years sounds tremendously, magnificently like an LCD Soundsystem album. Broadly, it continues James Murphy and Co.’s subtle trajectory of streamlining and “maturing” their sound. American Dream is, in purely sonic terms, their richest, most viscerally pleasurable record yet, rife with layered, polyrhythmic percussion … Continue reading Essential New Music: LCD Soundsystem’s “American Dream”