The Supergroup That Shouldn’t Work

Three songwriters with entirely different gravitational fields—Labrinth’s gospel-warmed soul, Sia’s theatrical maximalism, Diplo’s restless genre tourism—and somehow the thing they built together doesn’t collapse under its own contradictions. LSD (the initials in order) arrived with No New Friends as a statement of intent and a mild ironic joke: three very famous people who, between them, know everyone in music, singing about not wanting more people in their orbit. The production is exactly as dense as you’d expect. The chorus lands anyway. I’ve sat through worse supergroup experiments from people with considerably less to offer.