Taken end to end, Sound Of Silver is a thrilling, exhilarating ride on a fast machine. Murphy’s hyperactive compositions have rhythm, energy, feeling and bite – and while dance music will claim it, that needn’t restrict its coverage. You’d be mad to miss out on one of this year’s essential albums.
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.
Sound of Silver feels like the type of record you treasure forever, timeless while recalling a very specific place and era.
Far removed from the compressed, trebly, and overmastered paradigm that's gripped electronic music in the last decade, Sound of Silver sounds deep, spacious, and full-blooded.
While Sound of Silver still delivers terrific buzzy dance-space jams, it also contains wispy hints of New Order and Bowie, and Murphy's best song-making efforts to date.
As a cohesive album and a personal statement, Sound of Silver is superior in most every way.
Sound of Silver is the epitome of post-modern music, the lyrics clever and self-referencing whilst commentating on today’s political climate, yet it’s all done with so much energy and wrapped in such great music that you can turn that aspect off and just have a good time.
Sure, lots of other people have done this lately, but few do it with Murphy's flair.
A quantum leap beyond LCD's debut.
Never does any of this attention to detail interfere with the record’s main purpose – to make you shake parts of your body you never knew existed.
You won’t likely be amazed this time around, but be prepared to be thoroughly satisfied, all the same.
This album is so damn fun and such a pleasant listen. Front to back, it throws you into this Talking Heads era sound with these insanely catchy and intoxicating rock/electronic fusions.
LCD Soundsystem is literally the whip.
Sound of Silver is one of modern day talking heads' classics, Some even say their best album. I was really excited to check this one out, Considering the fact that This Is Happening is easily one of my favorite dance albums of all time. So I had some pretty damn high expectations going into this one. And well, They have mostly been answered.
James Murphy the vocalist, writer, multi-instrumentalist and the creative force behind the band, Is a genius. ... read more
Time flies when listening to this. All my friends is a serious contender for being the greatest song of all time
Now this.....THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT JAMES MURPHY!
After listening to LCD Soundsystem's self titled debut from 2005, I was a little apprehensive I'd be let down going into the bands discography going forward. Their first record was good, but it was also really messy and became a chore to get through in the end. Then, I listened to their one track LP "45:33" composed for Nike which was strangely actually 45 minutes and 58 seconds long despite the title. It easily could have ... read more
1 | Get Innocuous! 7:11 | 93 |
2 | Time to Get Away 4:11 | 89 |
3 | North American Scum 5:28 | 92 |
4 | Someone Great 6:30 | 96 |
5 | All My Friends 7:42 | 96 |
6 | Us v Them 8:29 | 91 |
7 | Watch the Tapes 3:55 | 87 |
8 | Sound of Silver 7:07 | 88 |
9 | New York, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down 5:35 | 96 |
#1 | / | Drowned in Sound |
#1 | / | musicOMH |
#1 | / | Stylus Magazine |
#2 | / | No Ripcord |
#2 | / | Pitchfork |
#3 | / | Consequence of Sound |
#3 | / | PopMatters |
#3 | / | Prefix |
#3 | / | SPIN |
#3 | / | The Skinny |