LCD Soundsystem - Tonite

Reunion bands should always be received with skepticism, specially because most of the time they do it because of the money rather than their need to say something new. But after listening to American Dream, the new album of LCD Soundsystem after they six years hiatus, we can rest assured that it is not their case.

In Tonite we again feel the vibrant need to create a smart track that one can dance to (you know, one that you don't need to justify liking by saying: "it's just for fun, at times you only need to shut your brain down"), and by doing it they take also the opportunity to question exactly how the whole music industry exploits this idea of immediate gratification through a dance tune. As the wise experienced übercool man that he is, James Murphy is telling us how much anxiety and manipulation we're receiving from all this tracks that demand us to live and party as if tonight was your last night and that is only boosting the culture of fake Internet lives where everybody is competing on who can pretend the most amazing life composed of several "tonights".

In a way is a reiteration of his favorite topics: mortality, the passing of time and the hype of younger generations. But he knows that he haven't fully exhausted the philosophical issues behind those topics, so his comeback to the stage feels like a consequence of a society that mutated so much in the last five years that it felt imperative to comment on how basic we're evolving in spite of all the supposed advances that technology has brought.

There are a lot of deep thoughts over that obsessive bass, that is, of course, a meta-comment by using vintage synths. The use of vocoder and special effects gives some very well deserved breaks and the keyboard has a great effect to grow the track to the party level that deserve all the cool people that fancy shaking their bodies to songs that preach that the fact of all of us dying eventually is "the best news you're getting all week".