Sound of Silver |
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Released: March 20, 2007 Peak: 46 US, 28 UK Sales (in millions): -- US, 0.1 UK Genre: electronica/dance punk |
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Total Running Time: 55:55 The Players:
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Rating: 4.034 out of 5.00 (average of 21 ratings)
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About the Album:James Murphy founded LCD Soundsystem in Brooklyn, New York, in 2002. The dance-punk revival band’s third album, Sound of Silver, was the first to chart in the United States. “James Murphy had proven his kung fu as the most badass electro-punk producer in clubland. But not even fierce fans dreamed he’d make a masterpiece like Sound of Silver.” RS’20 The “dance-punk heartbreaker dares to ask a generation of aging hipsters: Are we growing old before we grow up?” EW’12 It was a “poignant elegy to losing your indie-rock cred.” EW’12 “LCD Soundsystem achieves greatness in the nine anthems that make up Sound of Silver.” PM “Every track sounded like a different band’s greatest hit.” RS’20 “One clearly evident aspect of the album is that Murphy has streamlined his sound.” AM “Compared to the first LCD Soundsystem album, Sound of Silver is less silly, funnier, less messy, sleeker, less rowdy, more fun, less distanced, more touching.” AM “All the jagged frays have been removed, replaced by a slightly tidier approach that is more direct and packs more punch.” AM Murphy comes across as a fully naturalized producer of dance music – especially on Get Innocuous! – as opposed to a product of ‘90s indie rock who has made a convincing switch-up.” AM “There’s something enduring about these droney indie-dance-punk grooves, these forward-looking sounds paired with James Murphy’s best lyrics, which are forever preoccupied with aging and the past—and memories, kept alive.” PM “It is just as linked to James Murphy’s record collection, with traces of post-punk, disco, Krautrock, and singer/songwriter schlubs, but the references are evidently harder to pin down; the number of names dropped in the reviews published before its release must triple the amount mentioned throughout ‘Losing My Edge.’ There’s even some confusion as to which version of David Bowie is lurking around.” AM “The album’s best song is sad, should not be played in any club, and it at least matches the work of any active songwriter who has been praised.” AM Someone Great is a “synth-pop breakup lament” RS’20 “built on swelling synthesizers and a dual vocal-and-glockenspiel melody, could definitely be about a devastating breakup (‘To tell the truth I saw it coming / The way you were breathing’), at least until ‘You’re smaller than my wife imagined / Surprised you were human,’ which could mean the song either took a turn for the absurd or is about the death (and funeral) of a loved one. Either way, it is the most moving song Murphy has made, and it only helps further the notion that he should be considered a great songwriter, not simply a skilled musician with a few studio tricks and the occasional clever quip.” AM “The closer, New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down, seals it: ‘New York, you’re perfect, oh please don’t change a thing/ Your mild billionaire mayor’s now convinced he’s a king/ And so the boring collect – I mean all disrespect/ In the neighborhood bars I’d once dreamt I would drink.’ If he keeps it up, he’ll be writing songs for Pixar by 2020.” AM The album also includes the “political punk goof North American Scum” RS’20 andAll My Friends, a “song for the ages…[with] huge, sweeping, ferociously emotional, with disco keyboards and rock guitars pulsing as Murphy looked back on a youth of killer parties and silent mornings.” RS’20 |
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