Live music review: LCD Soundsystem, Sala Barts, Barcelona

How did you feel when you heard James Murphy was getting the band back together? Fittingly, he made a big song and dance about bringing LCD Soundsystem to a close in April 2011. And yet, five years later, they’re back, Murphy having to almost apologise for wanting to ‘Dance Yrself Clean’ all over again.

Yet here at Barcelona’s 1,500-capacity Sala Barts, with no barrier between band and devoted fan, and ahead of a headliner slot at Primavera in the city a couple days later and an Electric Picnic performance in a few months, nobody is concerned about LCD ethics. As they close with an unbelievably joyous ‘All My Friends’, nothing else matters — to steal another song title of theirs to describe the experience, it’s just us and them.