Tag: LCD Soundsystem

• Oscillation / Fashion

  1. Oscillation You can never really tell when James Murphy’s being sincere, whether he’s making fun of others or making fun of himself. “Pow Pow”’s his statement of philosophy—“from this position / I can totally see how the decision was reached”—which is a sort of pragmatist-PoMo enlightenment: acknowledge perspective’s providence on truth and then turn […]

  suspendedreason

  July 19, 2018

  Essays

  bandwidth, dialectic, fashion, fitness, John Dewey, LCD Soundsystem, Mikhail Bakhtin, oscillation, Peli Grietzer

• Memory of Lovers

  

  One of my favorite pieces of Mark Richardson’s writing is his 2012 essay “I Wanna Live: Two Songs About Freedom” for the now-dead column Resonant Frequency. In it, he waxes eloquent on the two-chord song, especially Bowie’s “Heroes,” Cat Power’s “Nothin But Time,” and LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends”: [There] is something especially powerful about music with this harmonic […]

  suspendedreason

  August 19, 2016

  Blog

  Broken Social Scene, Cat Power, David Bowie, dopamine, Jenny Davidson, LCD Soundsystem, Mark Richardson, Pitchfork, pop, pop music