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Sound of Silver | 
| Artist: Lcd Soundsystem
Label: Capitol
Category: Music
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Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 2883
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 094638511427
UPC: 094638511427
EAN: 0094638511427
ASIN: B000M3452Y
Publication Date: March 13, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Get Innocuous! | | • | Time To Get Away | | • | North American Scum | | • | Someone Great | | • | All My Friends | | • | Us V Them | | • | Watch The Tapes | | • | Sound Of Silver | | • | New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down |
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Genre: Popular Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 20-MAR-2007
Amazon.com
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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Showing reviews 1-5 of 61
 I don't get it... May 31, 2010
M. Mills
Clearly I'm not in the demographic this music was made for. I will admit that I'm 40 something but I still love a lot of the new music coming out these days but I just do not understand why so many people gave this 4 or 5 stars. I may be going out on a limb but this music reminds me of Beck, only not as original or interesting. While Beck's "singing" wasn't really the strong suit of his music, at least it had hooks that made it fun, funky and memorable. This, on the other hand is simply boring and uninspired. The vocals here - and we can all agree that from a musically aesthetic perspective, don't always have to sound pretty (i.e. Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Springsteen - no disrespect as they are all truly amazing) are just bad. Waits voice is like gravel with emphysema but it haunts you. Dylan's whiney, almost sneering and often incomprehensible delivery comes across like a jazzy improvisational saxophone. The Boss sings many of his songs as if he's 500 miles of bad interstate that has seen way too much bad weather and accidents and yet keeps you riveted to hear the story. I can find nothing in this music that draws my interest level even slightly. The beats that so many people are raving about just aren't that infectious and the music doesn't really move or groove, it sort of just sits there. To make what I feel is an apt comparison of similar modern music, the Broken Bells draws on the very same 1980s esque vibe and they simply do it better. The purists out there may criticize me by comparing these artists but if they aren't in the same solar system, they most definitely are in the same galaxy and LCD Soundsystem's Sound of Silver just doesn't beg to be explored.
 It talks to me! March 12, 2010
Linda In Wonderland (New York, USA)
Always have to check the new LCD one out. Like the MGMT album, its starts good but after 6 or 7 songs in, I have to stop. Too much for me. I do like it though and Ill listen to it more.
 An indie watershed February 12, 2010
E. Kutinsky (Seattle, WA)
Albums like Sound of Silver shouldn't be made anymore. Listeners of the indie generation lost a feel a while ago for a great straight-through album, even one composed of universally well made songs. Sound of Silver, though, doesn't remind me of other indie albums, despite its love of the modern-techno dance beats of the reinvented 80s-sound that's permeated indie music the last few years. Instead, it reminds me of the Stones' Let It Bleed or the Who's Who's Next for a new generation. Almost monolithically focused on the pains and pangs of aging and accepting adulthood, Sound of Silver is the type of album that forges an idea and pushes it so compulsively from one song to the next, you're almost immediately aware that you're in the type of album you never hear anymore - yet sonically, it's so advanced and up to the moment, lyrically so pointed and clever, it could only be made right now. "Get Innocuous," its 7 minute opener plunges you into beats so all-encompassing you don't notice what it seems to really, lyrically, be talking about - a fight to keep yourself from getting old. That theme pops up again and again - from the loss that clouds "Someone Great" to the pounding, brilliant manifesto "All My Friends" that separates the album into two. What are you to make of, say, "Sound of Silver" that has exactly one line ("Sound of silver talk to me/ makes you want to feel like a teenager/ until you remember the feelings of a real live emotional teenager/ then you think again") plunged into an absolute techno maelstrom? That you're happy to be a little older and wiser and more stable, and still capable of dancing all night. If any theme deserved a great album, it's that one, and it found its home.
awfull February 6, 2010
Elizabeth O. V. Lima (cyber_girl_rj)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
the cd didn't came with the case and the album... the case that came with, says that the cd was a gift from the newspaper.. at should arrive before cristmas and arrived in february.. i dind't refuse it, because would take my precious time.. that seller should be burn out of the site!!
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver December 25, 2009
BK (Near the Rocky Mountains)
Dance-punk is generally not my forte, but SOUND OF SILVER blows everything else in that genre out of the water! Murphy's music stems from the awesome tradition of art rock legends David Bowie and David Byrne as well as other krautrock and disco influences. Just as layered with percussion and synth lines as Talking Heads' masterpiece Remain in Light, SOUND OF SILVER is a must-hear for fans of that album's danceable and dense sound.
GRADE: A (97%)
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