New York dance-punks LCD Soundsystem have spoken about how age informs their music.
LCD Soundsystem are no more. Kaput. Done. At least, they soon will be, once James Murphy takes part in his last ever tour.
The New York producer has decided to call time on LCD Soundsystem after their third album, with 'This Is Happening' gaining across the board plaudits. A typically propulsive affair, it is buoyed by a knowledge of past music scenes.
Full to the brim of sly cultural references, the new album could only have been made by a man staring at his 40s. Speaking to Pitchfork, James Murphy mused on the role age has played in his music.
"I've kind of been thinking about this a lot lately" he explained. "Because for a while I was really angry. ‘Cause I was like, "What the fuck? We should suck. We should be being wiped off the stage by kids every night." I just didn't get it. I spent years saying that and being kind of wound up. Like, where the fuck are the kids?"
Continuing, the LCD Soundsystem producer insisted that most art is now being created later in people's lives due to the saturation of marketing aimed at young people. "I just think it takes a couple decades to kind of clear your brain now" he explained.
"So it makes more sense to me that I could find my footing when I was 30 instead of when I was 19. It seems a little more clear. You know, novelists are older now. Things are happening later in people's lives. They're kind of living lives and then creating things about the lives they've lived. Rather than being an artiste at an early age and coming out with a ball of fire."
"That energy has been co-opted because you haven't immunized yourself yet against media. It's easier to get swept up things then take a couple of years to get over your, like, indie rock hangover."
LCD Soundsystem's new album 'This Is Happening' is out now.
