Dancing Ourselves Clean

There will probably be some more thoughts from me forthcoming on the new LCD Soundsystem record This is Happening. I listened to it on crappy laptop speakers on Tuesday while cleaning up my office (I know, not the best way to really listen to music). Maybe I'll like it listening to it on headphones, which is what I'm doing now. But for now, I definitely agree with the summing up paragraph of Ben Ratliff's review of the record in the Times:

"And 'Drunk Girls,' [the first single] the most rock ’n’ roll track on the record, grates in exactly the same way as “North American Scum” did on the last album: it’s empty provocation with a wink. It isn’t a song about drunk girls, really; it appears to be a song about a guy who’s had the great idea to write a song called “Drunk Girls” but can’t convince himself that they’re any better or worse than sober girls. There’s a laugh in there, but it's a very short one."