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James Murphy Gets Political on LCD Soundsystem’s “Call the Police”

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LCD Soundsystem released two new songs tonight, “Call the Police” and “American Dream.” While the latter is a classically LCD song about the crush of aging, the former is an explicitly political song that addresses our very bad times.

Some lines refer first to a more general sense of unrest: “Well there’s a full-blown rebellion /…