Yeah it is

It's sadly only too easy to imagine the lead single, Drunk Girls, off of LCD Soundsystem's latest (and possibly last?) album soundtracking "hilarious" frat-boy parties in sub-American Pie (and that's pretty low) films. The irony, the wit and the cynicism that runs through all that James Murphy does will be overlooked for the simple match up of lyric with picture, which, as well as being simplistic, is misleading in that the single is not representative of the album as a whole, being very much an anomaly with its raucous, catchy, shouted vocal line. By contrast the rest of the album is a far more restrained, melancholic affair that rails against hipsters ("talking like a jerk, except you really are a jerk"- ouch), the music industry ("you wanted a hit, well maybe we don't do hits") and life in general. If Drunk Girls corresponds with North American Scum from the incredible Sound of Silver album, then the rest of the new tracks continue in a vein similar to songs such as Someone Great, All My Friends and New York I Love You. Comparisons have been made with everyone from Iggy Pop to Lou Reed to Talking Heads, but the beats remain great; familiar handclaps, squelchy synths and funky bass-lines. Murphy's louche spoken-word pieces such as on opener Dance Yrself Clean, or impassioned sung vocals on closer Home, which is an easy highlight of the album, continue to impress, although is it just me who thinks his singing voice sounds a little like Casiotone For The Painfully Alone at times?

What LCD does so well, and what makes them a great (and i truly mean that) act, is that they temper their cynicism, wit and irony with an unparalleled sense of sensitivity and sensibility. Its this that made tracks such as All My Friend so amazing, lending them a tenderness that many other bands would have been unable to inject, and which sets them apart from the New York hipsters they send up in their songs, most notably on their breakout Losing My Edge, still a classic to this day.
Perhaps it's for the best that LCD are calling it a day, leaving on an undoubted high, before descending into self-parody and losing what made them so special.

LCD Soundsystem are currently touring the UK and Europe, and you can listen to the album in full being streamed on the DFA website.
Here's a song for you to download though - Home