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, "Drunk Girls", was released in April 2010, with a music video directed by Spike Jonze. The album is dedicated to Jerry Fuchs (1974–2009), who performed drums live with the band on occasion, as well as having a big part in associated DFA acts.

This article is about the LCD Soundsystem album. For the 2015 indie film, see This Is Happening (film).

This Is Happening
Studio album by
LCD Soundsystem
ReleasedMay 17, 2010 (2010-05-17)
RecordedApril 1, 2009 – February 24, 2010
Studio
Genre
Length65:17
Label
ProducerJames Murphy
LCD Soundsystem chronology
45:33 Remixes
(2009)		 This Is Happening
(2010)		 London Sessions
(2010)
LCD Soundsystem studio albums chronology
Sound of Silver
(2007)		 This Is Happening
(2010)		 American Dream
(2017)
Singles from This Is Happening
  1. "Pow Pow"
    Released: April 17, 2010
  2. "Drunk Girls"
    Released: May 3, 2010
  3. "I Can Change"
    Released: July 26, 2010
  4. "Throw (Deluxe edition)"
    Released: 2010[7]

Reception
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?7.7/10[8]
Metacritic84/100[9]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[10]
The A.V. ClubA[11]
Entertainment WeeklyA[12]
The Guardian[13]
Los Angeles Times[14]
MSN Music (Consumer Guide)A−[15]
NME8/10[16]
Pitchfork9.2/10[17]
Rolling Stone[18]
Spin8/10[19]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised 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".[9] It also achieved an ADM Rating of 7.7/10 on another review aggregator, AnyDecentMusic?.[8]

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."[13] In his review for AllMusic, Tim Sendra had a similar opinion, stating 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 also 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",[10] while Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone said that it contained some of Murphy's "most earnest, lovelorn songs."[18] Pitchfork's Ryan Dombal awarded the album a Best New Music accolade, describing it as "pretty perfect".[17]

Accolades

This Is Happening was named the second best album of 2010 by Pitchfork.[20] This album was number 10 on Rolling Stone's list of the 30 Best Albums of 2010.[21]

Track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Dance Yrself Clean"Murphy8:56
2."Drunk Girls"
3:42
3."One Touch"
7:45
4."All I Want"Murphy6:41
5."I Can Change"
  • Murphy
  • Mahoney
5:52
6."You Wanted a Hit"
9:06
7."Pow Pow"
8:23
8."Somebody's Calling Me"Murphy6:53
9."Home"Murphy7:53
Total length:65:17
Deluxe edition bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
10."Throw" (Paperclip People cover)Carl Craig10:01
11."Oh You (Christmas Blues)"Murphy3:51
Total length:79:09

Personnel

All personnel and credits adapted from album liner notes.[22]

Charts

The album debuted at number ten on the Billboard 200 in its first week on sale, selling approximately 31,000 copies.[23] 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.[24] 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.[25]

Certifications
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[47] Silver 60,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Notes and references
Notes
  1. Mossman is credited as a member of the band during recording, but is not attributed to any contributions.
References
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