Sound of Silver

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
The second album from New York uberproducer James Murphy's LCD Soundsystem project is every bit as smart, funky, and literate as its predecessor. Party-starting dance music indebted to the driving percussion of early-'80s New York acts like Liquid Liquid and ESG, the pneumatic thud of house music, and the arch, modernist pop of Brian Eno or David Bowie circa Heroes. If you don't know the reference points, it really doesn't matter: "Someone Great" is the sort of delightful, dazed disco to rank amongst Ladytron or Goldfrapp's best, surfing a six-minute wave of woozy keyboards, acid blips and tapped xylophone, while "Us Vs Them" is a combative punk-dance march built from aggressive cowbells and splinters of funk guitar. But the clued-in will get an additional kick, both from James Murphy's hipster humour ("Take me off your mailing list," he wheezes, on the weary "New York I Love You") and the myriad reference points wired into the machinery of each song: see the tongue-in-cheek 'North American Scum', the sound of Fatboy Slim's 'The Rockefeller Skank' rewired by industrial terrorists Throbbing Gristle. Making music 'intelligent' so often kills its rump-shaking appeal, but Sound Of Silver does its thinking on the dancefloor. --Louis Pattison

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-06-18 rating:
Over and over again....
What an opener - listen to 'Get Innocuous' as loud as you can! And the album keeps the standard up throughout - 'Us v them' being another pinnacle. A classic.

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review by: Coleser date: 2008-04-27 rating:
Splendid splendour
My word, I love Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem. It's a funky little beast, awash with pulsating electronic beats and riddims and some of the exhilarating numbers make one want to dance a little (in the kitchen) and even whoop occasionally. It certainly is a marvellous long player. The closest comparisons I can contemplate are Power, Corruption and Lies by New Order for its electronic splendid splendour and Talking Heads' Remain in Light for the strutting and fascinating rhythmic resonance that permeates the whole effort. I salute this recording and effortlessly recommend it to all hepcats.

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review by: date: 2008-03-27 rating:
Anthems For A New America
The Wolf first heard this album playing in a clothing
store in Canterbury - One of those places where
the sales personnel all have very serious haircuts
and those incredibly skinny jeans which threaten to
cut off circulation.

Having bought two pairs of black Superdry Bumper Boots
(It's expensive having four feet) I tracked down LCD Soundsystem's
'Sound of Silver' at the Cathedral City's premier music store.

Mr Murphy and friends second excursion is a carefully scripted
product - ticking all the sonic boxes for today's ubercool dudes and
dudettes.

....but hold on ! There's more here than meets the eye....

An encyclopaedic knowledge of 60's, 70's and 80's European electronica
('Losing My Edge', LCD Soundsystem 2005) has not been wasted here.
Refracted through the prism of a 00's American moral vacuum these
pulsing beats and incantations convey both a sense of urgency and an ethical imperative.

The songs speak of fracture, dislocation, alienation & disenchantment.

In 'North Amercan Scum' the band holds up an anthemic mirror to a
generation's beaten and corrupted self-esteem. It is a bold, brave
redemptive cris de coer.

LCD Soundsystem have their fingers on an important pulse here -
One to which their leaders and elders would do well to heed.

....and if I'm becoming a tad ponderous there is a cunning alternative....

"....all the little people want to dance ( it's true ). "

It's True !

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review by: date: 2008-03-17 rating:
complete
brilliant piece of work. intelligent, inventive and musical. it is rare to find albums without some weak tracks but this is one of them. it does not rely on the headline tracks/singles to carry the album and for those of us who like to listen to whole albums it makes a refreshing change. Better than the first album.


review by: Doolittle date: 2008-03-08 rating:
A good album but a bit tiring after a while
I listened to this album for a few weeks and thought it was very good. Then i became kind of bored with it. It's like an instant fix but it doesn't have much longevity. Still, it's defintely above average than a lot of stuff out there.

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