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This Is Happening is the third studio album by American rock band LCD Soundsystem. It was released first on May 17, 2010, jointly through DFA and Virgin Records in the United States and Parlophone elsewhere. It was recorded over the course of 2009 and early 2010 in the Mansion recording studio in Los Angeles. The first single, "Pow Pow," was released in April 2010, with a music video directed by David Ayer. The album is dedicated to Jerry Fuchs (1974–2009), who performed drums live with the band on occasion, in addition to being closely associated with other DFA acts.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, This Is Happening received an average score of 84, based on 38 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". It also achieved an ADM Rating of 7.7/10 on another review aggregator, AnyDecentMusic?.
Guardian reviewer Alexis Petridis observed that the album did not contain Sound of Silver's "startling sense of mapping out new territories", instead sticking to a template that worked "incredibly well." Pitchfork's Ryan Dombal awarded it a Best New Music accolade, describing the album as "pretty perfect". In his review for AllMusic, Tim Sendra said that while This Is Happening "doesn't quite reach the monumental heights" of the band's previous album, it still provided proof that LCD Soundsystem was "one of the most exciting and interesting bands around in the 2000s." Sendra commended Murphy's expansion as a lyricist and songwriter, and said that his production on the album "reveal[s] him at the top of his game".
Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone said that the album contains some of Murphy's "most earnest, lovelorn songs", writing: "[Murphy] approaches dance music more like a folkie singer-songwriter than a DJ, as a vehicle for storytelling and confession. In Murphy’s world, dancing isn’t really about transcendence, or letting loose – try as you might to 'dance yrself clean', your crises, midlife and otherwise, follow you onto the floor." "Dance Yrself Clean", the album's first track, "opens with a naive vocal melody accompanied by 8-bit curlicues, before bursting into a gigantic breakbeat-driven block-rocker", wrote Chris Power for the BBC. "It’s as wry and emotionally resonant as it is physically bone-shaking, and nothing else here comes close to matching it." Referencing and softening parts from "Dance Yrself Clean", the album's final track, "Home", was described by Ryan Leas in Stereogum as "one of the most bare and wistful songs in [Murphy's] often arch and cerebral career, its fluttering and chirping synths offering comfort against his aloof and angular predilection".
This Is Happening has appeared on multiple year-end and decade-end lists. According to Metacritic, This Is Happening was the third-highest ranked 2010 album overall on year-end critics lists. This Is Happening was voted the second best album of 2010 on The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics' poll for 2010 with 1634 points, nearly half the points of the top album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Pitchfork ranked the songs "All I Want" and "I Can Change" at number eleven and number three respectively as the best tracks of 2010.
All personnel and credits for This Is Happening adapted from the album's liner notes.
The album debuted at number ten on the Billboard 200 in its first week on sale, selling approximately 31,000 copies. It also topped Billboard's Dance/Electronic Albums chart the same week of its debut, which dethroned Lady Gaga's The Fame from its five-month reign on the chart for one week. As of January 2016, the album has sold about 211,000 copies in United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. About 86,800 of those are physical copies, and about 124,500 of those are digital copies.
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This Is Happening
This Is Happening is the third studio album by American rock band LCD Soundsystem. It was released first on May 17, 2010, jointly through DFA and Virgin Records in the United States and Parlophone elsewhere. It was recorded over the course of 2009 and early 2010 in the Mansion recording studio in Los Angeles. The first single, "Pow Pow," was released in April 2010, with a music video directed by David Ayer. The album is dedicated to Jerry Fuchs (1974–2009), who performed drums live with the band on occasion, in addition to being closely associated with other DFA acts.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, This Is Happening received an average score of 84, based on 38 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". It also achieved an ADM Rating of 7.7/10 on another review aggregator, AnyDecentMusic?.
Guardian reviewer Alexis Petridis observed that the album did not contain Sound of Silver's "startling sense of mapping out new territories", instead sticking to a template that worked "incredibly well." Pitchfork's Ryan Dombal awarded it a Best New Music accolade, describing the album as "pretty perfect". In his review for AllMusic, Tim Sendra said that while This Is Happening "doesn't quite reach the monumental heights" of the band's previous album, it still provided proof that LCD Soundsystem was "one of the most exciting and interesting bands around in the 2000s." Sendra commended Murphy's expansion as a lyricist and songwriter, and said that his production on the album "reveal[s] him at the top of his game".
Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone said that the album contains some of Murphy's "most earnest, lovelorn songs", writing: "[Murphy] approaches dance music more like a folkie singer-songwriter than a DJ, as a vehicle for storytelling and confession. In Murphy’s world, dancing isn’t really about transcendence, or letting loose – try as you might to 'dance yrself clean', your crises, midlife and otherwise, follow you onto the floor." "Dance Yrself Clean", the album's first track, "opens with a naive vocal melody accompanied by 8-bit curlicues, before bursting into a gigantic breakbeat-driven block-rocker", wrote Chris Power for the BBC. "It’s as wry and emotionally resonant as it is physically bone-shaking, and nothing else here comes close to matching it." Referencing and softening parts from "Dance Yrself Clean", the album's final track, "Home", was described by Ryan Leas in Stereogum as "one of the most bare and wistful songs in [Murphy's] often arch and cerebral career, its fluttering and chirping synths offering comfort against his aloof and angular predilection".
This Is Happening has appeared on multiple year-end and decade-end lists. According to Metacritic, This Is Happening was the third-highest ranked 2010 album overall on year-end critics lists. This Is Happening was voted the second best album of 2010 on The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics' poll for 2010 with 1634 points, nearly half the points of the top album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Pitchfork ranked the songs "All I Want" and "I Can Change" at number eleven and number three respectively as the best tracks of 2010.
All personnel and credits for This Is Happening adapted from the album's liner notes.
The album debuted at number ten on the Billboard 200 in its first week on sale, selling approximately 31,000 copies. It also topped Billboard's Dance/Electronic Albums chart the same week of its debut, which dethroned Lady Gaga's The Fame from its five-month reign on the chart for one week. As of January 2016, the album has sold about 211,000 copies in United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. About 86,800 of those are physical copies, and about 124,500 of those are digital copies.