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Electric Lady Sessions

The American Dream band playing in a room with no audience, with three covers.
LCD Soundsystem, 2019

Released
8 February 2019
Recorded
19 to 21 January 2018
Studio
Electric Lady Studios, New York
Type
live

Electric Lady Sessions was recorded over three days in January 2018 and released on 8 February 2019. Pitchfork heard two LCD Soundsystems: the studio one Murphy cooks up in private, and the live one, which it called a decentralized commune. Like London Sessions, this record puts the live band in a room without a crowd, and the review said the end of Emotional Haircut might be the heaviest the band has ever gotten, driven by Pat Mahoney's drums.

It collects twelve songs, nine from the repertoire and three covers: Seconds, I Want Your Love and (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang. It includes studio-live versions of I Used To, Call the Police, Home, Emotional Haircut and Oh Baby.

Track listing

  1. Seconds5:09
  2. American Dream6:04
  3. You Wanted a Hit7:53
  4. Get Innocuous!6:17
  5. Call the Police6:40
  6. I Used To4:37
  7. Tonite5:38
  8. Home6:11
  9. I Want Your Love4:14
  10. Emotional Haircut5:16
  11. Oh Baby6:06
  12. (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang4:01

More from LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem (2005), 45:33 (2006), Sound of Silver (2007), This Is Happening (2010), The Long Goodbye: LCD Soundsystem Live at Madison Square Garden (2014), American Dream (2017), London Sessions

Sources

  1. Electric Lady Sessions, Wikipedia
  2. Electric Lady Sessions album review, Pitchfork
  3. Electric Lady Sessions (Discogs master), Discogs