LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 (2007)

I saw LCD Soundsystem last weekend at the Treasure Island Music Festival. Apparently this is James Murphy's last tour as LCD Soundsystem and I implore you to see them live. The show was sick-nasty/bittersweet. Sick-nasty because they completely rocked the house and bittersweet because all I wanted was more.

This album was commissioned by Nike as an album to jog to. We'll I haven't jogged to it but I can assure you it can accompany a host of other activities, most of which don't require so much movement and energy. You'll notice the nascent version of Someone Great as a theme throughout, thanks Nike!

LCD I love you but you're bringing me down.

LCD I love you but you're bringing me down.

Like a rat in a cage, earning minumum wage.

LCD I love you but your giving me FLAC

Titus Andronicus - The Monitor

Though Titus Andronicus' newest album, The Monitor, is the most dynamic punk album I've heard in a while (5 of the 10 songs are over 7 minutes long!), it can be boiled down to a simple RIYL equation:

The strained vocals and lyricism of Conor Oberst + the drunken snarl and occasional bagpipe of the Dropkick Murphy's + the large-scale songwriting of fellow New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen = Titus Andronicus

Now add that solution into the following equation:

Titus Andronicus + Ear-bleeding volume + Whiskey on the rocks + PBR = Just want you want in life.

or

Titus Andronicus + Night + Driving + Open Highway = Excessive speeds and a good time

Thanks Eric for the recommendation. I can't stop spinning this.

FLAC.

P.S. Kit Wilson would be so proud. The whole album has Civil War themes spun throughout it. The Monitor was the ship that fought the Merrimack in the Battle of Hampton Roads. Also note the clips from Lincoln's speech in "A More Perfect Union."

I ask you: what more could a liberal arts graduate want in a punk album?