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LCD Soundsystem Lives Its Darkly Philosophical, Archly Self-Aware 'American Dream'

After a six-year hiatus, the New York dance-rock band has put out a "fiercely intergenerational" album, says pop critic Will Hermes.
James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem. The band's new album, <em>American Dream</em>, is its first after a six-year hiatus.

Even by the standard of today's news cycle, 's whiplash turnaround time from retirement to reunion seemed suspicious. In 2011, the electronic rock band staged an elaborate, sold-out goodbye, this new comeback album that has arrived a mere six years later.

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