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Sound of Silver

~ Lcd Soundsystem (Artist)

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Audio CD (Mar 13 2007)
Original Release Date: Mar 20 2007
Number of Discs: 1
Label: EMI Music Canada
ASIN: B000M3452Y
Other Editions: LP Record

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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1. Get Innocuous!

2. Time to Get Away

3. North American Scum

4. Someone Great

5. All My Friends

6. Us v Them

7. Watch the Tapes

8. Sound of Silver

9. New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down

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Two years after LCD Soundsystem's eponymous full-length debut sent indie scenesters rushing to the dancefloor, the outfit headed by dance-rock producer James Murphy serves up another stiff cocktail of punk, dance, and funk with Sound of Silver. Analog synths, chugging basslines, chunky guitars, and Murphy's wild falsetto excursions are once again the foundation to which is added the new and strange, such as the heavily chorused voices that suggest backward-masking in the opener "Get Innocuous" and the captivating harmonics keyboardist Nancy Whang bounces off of Murphy's vocals on "Someone Great." If this album has its own version of "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House," it has to be "North American Scum," an infectious stormer that breezily dismisses Europe as a place where "the buildings are old and you might have lots of mimes." Such lines are good evidence that LCD's music would rather ridicule itself than fall into the kind of pretense and nostalgia it constantly lampoons. The album's title track reflects that hankering after one's teenage years is often interrupted when "you remember the feelings of a real live emotional teenager--then you think again," while the power ballad "New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down" wearily serenades the Big Apple as "still the one pool where I'd happily drown." True, LCD's music is not for everyone, which may have something to do with why their fans love them as they do. If you fall into the latter category, however, Silver is gold. --Brent Kallmer

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Import-only vinyl LP pressing of the 2007 sophomore album from the New York-based Electro-Rock outfit led by mainman James Murphy. Features the single 'North American Scum'. DFA.

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4.0 out of 5 stars sound of silver, Jan 18 2008

By	T. Bigney (Nova Scotia, canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

The finest work of James Murphy's career to date, Sound of Silver sits squarely at the intersection of all of the early 00s careening pop and indie ideologies. In an age of free downloads, mashups, and iPod shuffles, LCD Soundsystem unapologetically set out to make a dance record that breathes like a proper album-- and it's as close to a perfect hybrid of dance and rock music's values as you're likely to ever hear.

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4.0 out of 5 stars If The Talking Heads Had a Younger Sibling., April 26 2007

By	William J. Walker "Billyjay" (England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a quality album full of vigour and energy.
The sound is very much that of the Talking Heads of the "Speaking In Tongues" album. It's where the 'Heads might have gone if they'd continued to develope that style. Don't get me wrong it's no pale imitation, more that it shows how much scope for development of the music there was.

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4.0 out of 5 stars This is dance-rock for grown-ups: extraordinary...,, April 24 2007

By	write2me (New York) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

Dance music may still pack out clubs, but the wider influence it wielded has all but evaporated; witness the lengthening silence from such former chart staples as The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy and Fatboy Slim. Apologists say that dance music isn't really album-fodder anyway, but even in single form, it's trounced these days by Britpop, nu-pop, hip-hop, indie-pop, Keaneplay and R&B. The appeal of cheering on a club DJ simply doesn't transfer that well to the home environment, it seems.

This shouldn't be cause for too much gloom. Quite the opposite, in fact, as dance music's great cultural breakthrough - the demystification of the recording process - means that thousands can now make music in their own bedrooms, free to explore outside the strict parameters of club culture.

The touchstones for this new form of computer-groove music are not so much Detroit techno icons such as Derrick May and Juan Atkins, but Kraut-rockers like Can, Neu! and Kraftwerk, early synth-rock pioneers such as Silver Apples and Suicide, and minimalist composers like Steve Reich and Terry Riley. James Murphy, who to all intents and purposes is LCD Soundsystem, admitted as much on his single "Losing My Edge", name-checking everyone from Can to Captain Beefheart, going on to notable success with his 2005 debut album. Now Murphy returns with Sound of Silver, a quantum leap beyond LCD's debut.

Apart from the closing piano ballad "New York I Love You", the album's nine tracks are methodically built, sometimes from the simplest elements - the single-note bassline of "Time To Get Away", the lone repeated chord of "Get Innocuous", the re-synching pianos of " All My Friends" - laid over the interlocking rhythms. The tone is so discreetly minimal that it's a shock to reach the end of a track and realise that itchy rhythm guitar is now driving the groove, or that a piercing, atonal violin has muscled its way in somewhere.

Murphy hasn't yet settled on a vocal style of his own, with individual tracks sounding as though haunted by the spirits of Bowie or Byrne. But his songwriting displays an admirably broad range of subjects: the dubious desire to re-experience teenage emotions; the deceit of "politricks" ; the numbing impact of bereavement; and, in "North American Scum", the contrast between American and European attitudes. It makes for a diversely entertaining hour or so, but without that nagging suspicion that you ought to be on a dancefloor. It's possible to discern in Sound of Silver the sound of the future crystallising out of the past.

Above all, I love the tracks 'Us v Them', 'Time To Get Away 'and 'North American Scum' .

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fresh and enjoyable.
LCD Soundsystem, the band whose house Daft Punk played, are back with 'Sound Of Silver', their second album of dance influenced punk, picking up where their first left off. Read more

Published on Mar 19 2007 by joemacktheknife