James Murphy and LCD Soundsystem played a sold out show to 2,700 of their closest friends at The Orpheum Theatre on Tuesday night.
LCD Soundsystem, touring their new album This Is Happening, created the intimate atmosphere of a house party throughout their near two-hour long set.
When the band had finished recording their latest record in April of this year, they played two shows in New York just for record executives and their close friends.
Murphy went down on his knees during those shows and pleaded with the music industry people in the audience who already had access to the record not to leak it to their friends.
His reasoning became clear upon seeing the band’s live show; there is something special about these songs.
LCD Soundsystem opened their set with a 10 minute long version of the first song o of This Is Happening, “Dance Yrself Clean.” From the moment the beat dropped, the audience didn’t stop moving.
The band’s set spanned their three albums, and never once gave the audience a break from the thumping beats and intricate synthesizer melodies.
The band followed up their opener with the second song from This Is Happening, the anthem “Drunk Girls”.
It is impressive to watch LCD Soundsystem perform because at any point during their set, a portion of the six members of the band were playing guitars and bass guitars, proving that there is a lot more to this band behind all the synthesizers and drum machines.”There’s every kid for miles at my house, and the neighbors can’t call the police,” Murphy sang during the band’s breakout hit, “Daft Punk Is Playing at My House.”
These lyrics seemed fitting, as the show felt like the best dance party you had ever been to.
Philip Moniz, a College of Communications junior, was at The Orpheum for LCD Soundsystem’s show.
“Their show was on the highest order of cultural phenomena,” Moniz said.
Halfway through their first set, the band broke out “All My Friends”, from their 2007 album Sounds of Silver.
“All My Friends” has perhaps the most personal lyrics of any song off of Murphy’s three albums, and they held all of their meaning in the band’s live show.
Perhaps the high point of the entire set was “Yeah”, of Sounds of Silver, which the band played as the last song in their first set.
The version they played was well over 10 minutes long, and dissolved into a heavy, more punk than anything, portion near the end.
At the climax of the song, a disco ball was lowered, casting neon green light into every crevasse of the venue, illuminating 2,700 happy, dancing fans.
LCD Soundsystem put on a truly special show. Every song was heartfelt. The band wanted to be at The Orpheum playing those songs for that group of people.
Upon walking out of the doors of the theatre following the show, there seemed to be a general consensus among all of those who attended, “This better not be LCD Soundsystem’s last album.”
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