LCD Soundsystem: This Is Happening  4 / 5 stars LCD Soundsystem
Infinitely more to offer than snarky gags … LCD Soundsystem PR
The sleeve notes to Big Black's astonishing 1987 album Songs
About Fucking may be among the most entertaining in rock
history. Amid frontman Steve Albini's descriptions of his songs'
charming subject matter – including the Colombian necktie, "a
particularly humiliating way to die that involves having your
throat slit from ear-to-ear so your tongue can flop out your
neck" – there lurks a piece of wisdom. "Hey," wrote Albini,
explaining his decision to call time on the band just as it
appeared to be at the height of its powers, "breaking up is an
idea that occurred to far too few groups."  You could spend
hours listing artists whose reputation would have been burnished
had they made the tough decision to pack it in at the top of
their game. There was a time, however, you might have got long
odds on that being a decision LCD Soundsystem would ever have to
consider making, given that lon