Typically when AV Club interviews someone that I\'m a fan of I find their results to be far more compelling than just about any other publication. The interviewer always seems to be far more informed than most publications and actually cares about the subject. Such is the case with this James Murphy interview - in which a wide array of LCD Soundsystem topics are investigated. The questions are spot on but Murphy\'s responses are even more engaging. When asked what the latest album is \'about\' he responds:

That’s a tough question for me. Albums to me aren’t really about things—they are things, if that makes any sense. It’s not a narrative, so I never know how to answer that. I understand the question, but I don’t know how to answer it, other than to make something up.

He also has a great bit about the new record, This Is Happening, being more personal than the previous releases. As to why:

I don’t know, you’re in a rock band singing about your life, your feelings. It seems pretty yawny in a lot of ways. But I ran out of songs like “Thrills.” [Laughs.] And “Yeah.” You hit a wall, to a certain degree, and all of a sudden you’re writing songs about dead people and all your friends and stuff. I felt like those were hard songs to write, because I was a little embarrassed about the point of them. But then they wound up being songs I really liked. They wound up being strong-esque songs that weren’t just musical ideas about musical ideas. So I guess on this record, I was like, “Well, embarrassment is not a good enough reason not to do things. You should try and do the best you can, even if it’s a little embarrassing—or a lot embarrassing.” So I think this record had a lot more with me trying to do things that I think I unconsciously forbade myself to do. Like sing in a really arch falsetto, or write songs from a hackneyed position of desperation, things like that.

I love that bit about not doing something because it\'s embarrassing. Perfect.

Read the whole thing, please.