Get Innocuous live at Madison Square Garden (4/2/11)

Song #5 in the first of five sets that LCD Soundsystem played during their final show at Madison Square Garden. From the excellent Pitchfork song by song write-up: - - - - From the album Sound of Silver; 2007 Written by James Murphy, Tyler Pope Produced by the DFA Tyler Pope: bass James Murphy: vocals Nancy Whang: vocals Can a band’s second album already be a back-to-basics move? Where LCD’s self-titled LP looked to expand the boundaries laid down by the early singles, Sound of Silver went back to the original blueprint and worked to perfect it. “Get Innocuous!“, both the LP’s opener and the first song written for the album, was built on Murphy’s favorite trick-- call it the “bricklayer method.“ Rather than jumping right into the thick of the song, Murphy gives a master class in how to construct a groove, adding each element separately until the full machinery of the song is eventually assembled. Blame the band’s long
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