James Murphy and company tore a hole through the floor of Terminal 5 on Saturday with LCD Soundsystem’s third of four scheduled shows at the venue with an unrelenting set, daring the audience to sit still. Pat Mahoney’s drums on “All My Friends” plowed through the crowd with reckless abandonment, sparing no one from the power and beauty of arguably the best song off of 2007′s “Sound of Silver.” The surprise of the night was the emphatic bass drops that shook the walls during “Pow Pow,” injecting elevated energy into the track off their latest record This is Happening.
Song after song, the set refused to bring you down and the energy level peaked with a vivacious version of “Yeah” that grew with each verse and became the exclamation point of the show. For the encore, we got a little bit of everything: “Someone Great” into “Losing My Edge” with the city appropriate closer “New York, I Love You But Your Bringing Me Down.”
The only disappointment in the set was the absence of the best song so far of 2010, “Dance Yrself Clean.” That aside, it was the best dance party of the year. See more pics and setlist (same for all four nights) below:
Setlist:
Us v Them
Drunk Girls
Get Innocuous
Yr City’s A Sucker
Pow Pow
Daft Punk is Playing at My House
All I Want
All My Friends
I Can Change
Tribulations
Movement
Yeah
Encore:
Someone Great
Losing My Edge
New York, I Love You But Your Bringing Me Down
Empire State of Mind
