'Drunk Girls' is the song that - inbetween albums - you forget that LCD Soundsystem make. For every long and winding, nuanced soundscape that explodes in a glorious life-affirming rave up, there's the sneering belters. The frat party "jams". I'm thinking 'Daft Punk Is Playing At My House', 'North American Scum'. While we're here waiting for the next 'Someone Great', James Murphy's jotting down notes on "drunk boys keeping pace with the paedophiles". Uh, ok.

Trust Spike Jonze to help pull some perspective. (Actually, Murphy has done that himself with the songs surrounding 'Drunk Girls' on his forthcoming This Is Happening, but more on that soon). Here Jonze returns to his gonzo skate vid roots. In a fascinating, (mostly) single-take shot, Jonze has a room of Panda thugs abuse Murphy and his two LCD cohorts in a myriad of entertaining ways. It ties in to the creepy underbelly of the song, so much so that for many moments it raises real concern over our subjects physical well-being. Before confirming, 'y'know, it's just a song dummy'.


LCD Soundsystem - 'Drunk Girls'

Love the Gondry-esque test pattern at the start.

Spike is of course currently working with Arcade Fire somewhere in Austin, Texas on a short film "collaboration". He also recently released the 35 min short film 'I'm Here' which you should watch immediately if you haven't already.