The excitement for the new LCD Soundystem album in our building is palpable… can you feel it simmering away!?

Ever since 2007’s seminal album Sound Of Silver and its compatriots 45:33 and 45:33 Remixes, we have been waiting with baited breath to get our hands on new tunes from Mr James Murphy of DFA. How on earth do you follow up THE album which brought us the joyful cattiness of North American Scum (WE LIVE IN NORTH AMERICA!!!), the Kraftwerk-inspired railroad clackety-clacks of Get Innocuous, the hypnotic caresses of Us V Them, the poignant swelling anthem All My Friends, and the heart-wrenchingly bittersweet Someone Great??? Sound of Silver wells up such giddying and complex emotions that after a listen, I need a tissue, a hug, a dancefloor podium, and a good long nap.

Trust us however, no one is going to be disappointed with the 2010 album… *drum roll*… THIS IS HAPPENING out on May 14.

Today it is our very great pleasure to reveal This Is Happening’s artwork, tracklisting, and first single Drunk Girls. Behold!

• 1. Dance Yrself Clean (ed note – this track’s a killer – wait 50sec for it to kick in and then bliss out)
• 2. Drunk Girls (single audio below!)
• 3. One Touch
• 4. All I Want
• 5. I Can Change
• 6. You Wanted A Hit
• 7. Pow Pow
• 8. Somebody’s Calling Me
• 9. Home

How did it come to this? Ten short years ago I was dancing to TLC’s No Scrubs (judge ye not!) on Manly Beach for the countdown to *gasp* The Millennium.

Suddenly, we’re at the other end of the decade, and we never did work out what to call ‘00-10… “The Noughties” didn’t really cut it. We’d better come up with something quick sticks, because the tunes from the last ten years have been incredible and future generations are going to need to refer to us somehow…

NME’s Top 100 albums of the last decade has some mean contributions, not the least of which is the man of the hour Emperor Luke Steele’s early effort, Lovers from The Sleepy Jackson. The Empire defining epochs, even way back when!

Other EMI faves from the list you can regularly hear blasting around the office are below:

One very notable absence however… WHERE IS THE DAFT PUNK!?!?

Whilst we greatly respect NME’s all-seeing UK hipster stylings, stay tuned for The In Sound’s very own and very wise Best Of 2009 album list – coming soon to a browser near you!

Yep, exactly what it sounds like… hit up www.lcdsoundsystem.com for your one of 20,000 free mp3s of Bye Bye Bayou;  LCD Soundsystem’s unique and wonderful take on Alan Vega’s original, recorded for November’s Record Store Day spinoff Vinyl Saturday.

Pitchfork called it a “hypnotic deadpan disco treat”, and to be honest I can’t think of a better description. LCD’s Bye Bye Bayou creates a space of slightly unsettling bliss, like a zombie reunion at a spaced-out disco filmed in slow-mo… or whaddeva (see below).

Get on your LCD twitter-stalking shoes at http://twitter.com/lcdsoundsystem

I know what I’M doing this NYE: dancing my butt off to LCD Soundsystem with all my friends (haw hawww…) at Pyramid Rock 09-10.

Now we just need someone with a car. Who’s up for a roadtrip to Victoria???

• EMPIRE OF THE SUN
• LCD SOUNDSYSTEM (DJ SET)
• THE CAT EMPIRE
• FAKER
• SOMETHING WITH NUMBERS
• UGLY DUCKLING
• THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
• ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI
• THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS
• BLUE KING BROWN
• THE DRONES
• TAME IMPALA
• BADDIES
• VAN SHE
• THE BOXER REBELLION
• GRAFTON PRIMARY
• BLUEJUICE
• BUMBLEBEEZ
• KRAM
• DEAD LETTER CIRCUS
• PONYTAIL
• TELEPATHE
• THE JUAN MACLEAN
• PHRASE
• THE FUMES
• ASTRONOMY CLASS
• SKIPPING GIRL VINEGAR
• WE HAVE BAND
• CASSETTE KIDS
• BONJAH
• MM9
• REGULAR JOHN

Admit it… no one likes gymn junkies. No one likes those spritely peeps who jog around your block in figure-hugging spandex at 5am. In fact, the only time I’ve ever been inspired to join those freaks was the first time I listened to LCD Soundsystem’s 45:33: the incredible Sounds of Silver album which was reworked into a 45min workout (*shudder*) track for Nike. I challenge you to listen to Get Innocuous and not suddenly be desperate to jump on a treadmill.

Now my expanding posterior will be grateful for another opportunity to get back to the gym: a brand new collection of remixes of 45:33 will be released as a series of vinyl 12″ singles (hopefully this gym has a vinyl player) – before the whole set is released as a CD/Download on Sept 11. The 8 remixed tracks have been re-interepreted by some of dance music’s supposedly most innovative players. Here’s the tracklisting…

45:33 Remixes:
1. Runaway Remix
2. Prince Language Remix
3. Prins Thomas Diskomiks Remix
4. Theo Parrish’s Space Cadet Remix
5. Trus’ Me Remix
6. Padded Cell Remix
7. Pilooski Remix
8. Riley Reinhold Remix