Sound of Silver

10/10

Ahhhhhhaaaaa

I didn't mind this album. It was interesting to hear LCD Soundsystem's take on electronic rock music: I liked the builds and the repetition of motifs like electronic dance tracks. I think the vocals lacked quite a bit: it felt more like talking, and I found it kind of hard to sing along. Highlights include Someone Great and All My Friends. 3 out of 5 stars.

Very good, creative and a lot of fun. Smart, cerebral and hip all at the same time. Superb.

94/1089 really enjoyed this album, just some cool fun electronica rock, very electronic britpop vibes. I do feel that it loses it’s steam after Us V Them which is what prevents it from being a 5 star album for me. New York… is a really interesting/odd way to end this album, on the one hand i think it’s a cool twist and change of sound, and standalone it’s decent but i also think the whiplash in style is a bit too much. correction: as i was writing this and relistening to New York… it actually clicked and now 5 stars seems like the only correct rating faves: All My Friends, Get Innocuous!, Us V Them least fave: Watch the Tapes 84/100

i can appreciate the talking heads/the strokes influences but i can’t get behind the songs 6+ and some of them were a real drag to get through

I thought I liked it and then I didn't.... Made my head hurt a little bit.

Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem: an album where James Murphy sings about being tired and disappointed, but somehow you’re supposed to dance through it. It’s upbeat enough to make you move, depressing enough to make you question why you’re moving. Perfect soundtrack for feeling slightly miserable in a cool way.

Back in 2007 I was a young-ish aspiring hipster, keeping up with The Scene as much as possible. And of course, this album was required listening at the time. You couldn't swing a dead cat without it telling you how great Sound of Silver is. So I gave it a shot and it was kinda fun, if a little rhythmically abrasive. So pulling it up again this morning I juts sighed. I wasn't in the mood for this. And two minutes in, I'm bobbing my head. With each track I'm bobbing it even more. By the time we're on "All My Friends," I'm totally bought in. I think the trick to this album is to give yourself a break halfway through. Otherwise it really is too much of the same all at once. But these first five songs are stellar, and earn the album its score all by itself. I'll be firing this one back up more often for susre. FOUR STARS

I was expecting it to be pretentious and overrated, but the music was quite good and only a little pretentious! Maybe it would mean more to me if I lived in New York, but we can't all have generational wealth.

I liked it so little I didn't finish listening to it.

C'est bon bon bon. Mais c'est This Is Happening qui devrait être dans la liste parce que c'est le MEILLEUR.

Something great.

Pleasant

"Sound of Silver" is the kind of album where hating it is, to me, a big red flag, but insisting it's the best album ever bar none is, to me, also a big red flag.

It was prettt good, some of the songs just kinda blurred together in the background but once Sound of Silver started my ears perked up!

90

A belter of an album. 🔥

Great album. Never listened to a full album of this before although have been a fan of the odd tracks I've heard previously

Not bad

Millennial sleeper cell activation

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM IS EVERYTHING I LOVE ABOUT MUSIC

Great album, first time listening to it and loved it.

Interesting in parts

I feel like the music that inspired LCD Soundsystem is all my favorite stuff but when it is synthesized this way it leaves something to be desired. I don't know what it is that doesn't land for me.

WHERE ARE YOUR FRIENDS TONIIIIIIIIIIIGHT

Catchy electronic beats with some epic length songs sprinkled in.

It seemed to have something which evaporated to nothing. Pick one play then OK. Anymore it is just a tad repetetive.

10/10 - been a favourite for years

This is one of my favourites.

Gets repetitive but the last track is great. The middle is eh.

Nawet lubię ten zespół, ale ta płyta była dla mnie zbyt elektronicznie hałaśliwa. Brakowało mi spójności i jakiejś sensownej koncepcji. 6/10

Syltynn 3er

Amazing. Great beats. Dancing by myself. Never heard it before. 5/5

Kind of feels like a prototype of music that I like more...but not quite fully baked.

If Terry Riley made indie music, I think it would sound like this.

from the onset i would say I like the songs that are not specifically their sound. New york I love you was by a country mile the standout song. Second half of the album was great annd i enjoyed it much more than the first half. I am still not going to go out and buy this or have a desire to find out more about them, but after a second listen I upgraded this for an almost 4 to a 4 Notable songs: All my Friends, Us vs Them, Sound of Silver, Watch the Tapes, New york I love you but you're bringing me down 4 stars

I liked this more than I thought I would. It starts out very electronic, but definitely drifts towards ending rock for most of it.

James Murphy's lyrics made him sound like an arse but his music is class

What if David Bowie and Prince had a baby at a dance club? Why you'd get this of course. Hooky if derivative, this is a bit too dance forward to be my cup of tea. But its got several strong songs ("North American Scum", "Someone Great", "All My Friends"), even if they sometimes stretch on a hair too long. If you wanna rage, this is the album for you.

Gostei das fundações de música eletrónica, mas nada me surpreendeu muito

This album came out when I was 16 and was basically the soundtrack to every awful Skins-aping parting I went to at the time. An incredible album and LCD Soundsystem at their peak. All My Friends is up there with the all time greatest songs, and is certainly the song of my generation for that time. The rest of the album is no slouch either; LCD albums all feel like they have just one or two too many filler tracks, but this one has no fat on it at all - from front to back it goes hard and doesn’t stop until the final track where you finally get a chance to catch your breath.

In a word, overstimulating. This album got worse and worse as my last toke got further and further away. There's some good vibey beats but the vocals aren't there. This is definitely music to have on in the background of a 2007 party. (When I saw that this album came out in 2007 I was like ohhhhh that makes sense.) I do kind of like North American Scum as a song but the lyrics are horrifying lmfao.

Hailed as the DJ to the coolest dance party that you weren’t invited to, LCD Soundsystem were another band that I heard of, but never actually heard. So I was excited to hear this album. And it is good, it really is. If I’m miraculously at the party & wouldn’t be mad at the music I was hearing. But, it feels like there’s something missing, something I can’t quite explain. All I know is, I listened to it once, if it was on somewhere else I’d listen to it again, but I’m not going to seek it out anytime soon.

great album!!

Sounds good in my ears

Very good album I liked it a lot

Pretty good

I've always wanted to get into LCD Soundsystem but for some reason found it somewhat inaccessible. This seems like a great gateway album. Time to get away is an incredible song. Followed by North American Scum, which is one of my favorites and a reason I've wanted to get into LCD Soundsystem. Someone Great is another really fun song. Overall, I think this is a great album to introduce LCD Soundsystem and I see a lot of parallels between other artists like Daft Punk or Radiohead. It's kind of a blend of the two.

Ебать я люблю Токин Хэдс.

Rubbish

Perfectly listenable indie / dance music, and enjoyable for a while, or as background music in the car. Does feel a bit all surface little substance. Can see why the critics love it. Reminds me of acts like Klaxons or Pendulum. Not the type of band that is easy to 'love'. I wouldn't turn it off if it came on the radio.

surprisingly good

I want to give these guys more as I love all my friends but the album is mixed.

Rough week. Another band whose generic, anodyne, soulless music—adored by all the most boring people I knew at the time—I couldn't stand when they came out. Of course, I was being a dick. But this still bores me.

Love this album.

It was pretty repetitive and I found myself waiting for the songs to end. Some of the beats were great, but overdone and repeated throughout the whole song, and many songs were like that on the album. Best song was 'New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down' by far, which imo is 8/10

Danceable. 1-2 hits short of a 4 for me though

Ok

This album defined my early adulthood. I will never forget seeing them at Hyde Park in 2007 during the heyday of indie sleaze. Not a goddamn smartphone in sight. 7/5

This album was interesting but not in a bad way. Not what I expected and I liked it.

The initial song, Get Innocuous!, lead me to believe this was going to be more interesting than the album ended up being. I liked All My Friends (I think I'd heard it before). Someone Great was OK. 👍Get Innocuous!, All My Friends

Banger

One of the best

Tried this before because it’s seen as an essential indie album and didn’t like it. I warmed up to it this time but it still wasn’t amazing or anything.

Just don't get it

Fast paced electronica dance rock that’s high energy with a steady beat and high tech sound effects. North America Scum is the top track, but they’re all good. Enjoyed this listen during an elliptical routine. (4.4*s)

LCD Soundsystem is a great electronica alt-rock band. It is very difficult to combine lyrics with elctro-beats and make it sound good but this band nailed it. Sound of Silver is a fun trip through beats and the talented mind of James Murphy. Good marks for this work but they have even better albums which I hope some make the list. If you aren't in on this go read all the pamphlets and watch the tapes cause these guys kick ass...4.05 stars.

Perfect excuse for me to delve a little deeper into LCD Soundsystem. I know a couple of their more popular songs but have never listened to an album. I really liked what I got in Sound of Silver. James Murphy and company are really creative in their use of electronic instruments with some traditional backing. They meld genres really effectively and pump out a really fun, high energy collection of tracks, all of which are solid. James Murphy's vocal style adds another layer of onion to help them stand out as a unique act in contemporary music. Really nice entry by LCD Soundsystem. They are a band that I need to get more familiar with. Every time I hear them come up I'm interested and I've yet to hear something from them that I didn't like. Keep it coming. 4.07 stars

Never got into the back in the day. That genre wasn't my thing. I did like this one

Trippy

good, but not my thing. 2

LCD Soundsystem nail that hipster shrug I want in NYC rock and yet somehow sneak in actual warmth among the beats and drugs and this is them at their peak. Each song on this album evokes a scene I'm sure I'm not cool enough to be invited to, but I am there. "All My Friends" is the sweetest minimalist song ever.

“North American Scum” sure hits different today dunnit. “New York I Love You,” too. It’s like dance music for the dystopia.

What a first-three-album run LCD Soundsystem had. I'm more of a This Is Happening guy... but Sound of Silver delivers, and there's a lot to love in the tracklist. Someone Great and All My Friends in particular, but there isn't a dullard in the box.

I was (still am) the target demo for LCD Soundsystem. When the whole DFA oeuvre crashed into my awareness, I was finally able to connect the dots between the parts of me that tore up the pits at punk shows and the parts that danced all night at shady parties. James Murphy made it all make sense, and when Sound of Silver dropped, there he was with the Sad Dad energy that had also become a major part of my life by 2006. I can't argue that this is, like, a masterpiece. But it's five stars from me.

I'd heard this before when it was new. Its too cerebral for dance music but too dancy for pop music, so hard to know exactly what to make of it.

Is this my favorite LCD Soundsystem album? Trick question. They're all my favorite LCD Soundsystem albums. I think I just love Jame's music making process...find a neat sound, loop it 1000 times, make a song out of it. It just works. Over and over again. Saw them on their last tour this summer. They're true talent is how great of a live band they are.

The album always surprises me. When released, behind a glowing pitchfork review I immediately bought, and then immediately dismissed. It just didn't resonate with me at the time as a 25/26 year old. However, now I feel the album is brilliant...and I don't understand how I didn't love it from first listen. 5/5

someone great неплохая, all my friends тоже, но боже как же альбом тяжело слушать порой. очень экспериментально моментами. но уважаю запись собственного вокала показалась мерфи неприятной, он описал этот опыт как ужасающий. во время работы он покрыл всю студию фольгой. альбом был посвящен памяти доктора джорджа камена, врач болгарского происхождения, был пионером групповой терапии в итоге передумала, мне понравилось

This one was a solid 3 stars. I don’t really have anything to say about it. Was pretty rockeyish and I’m lazy rn so that’s all

Really enjoyed it, the wholoe album being prominent in an stacatto style brings it energy and power

Why is there so many electric music in top 100 Records list

When I was younger and more outgoing, a local bar called Rocky's had a dancefloor upstairs where all the hipsters would hang out on Saturday nights. Small, always with too many people stuffed in and no AC in the summer, the place was suffocating and claustrophobic. At 2 AM closing time, without fail, the looping piano of "All My Friends" began, and everyone jumped along, inevitably without any actual rhythm or synchronization due to the mess of drunkeness permeating the place. For its nearly 8 minutes, everyone shouted along with the song, "WHERE ARE YOUR FRIENDS TONIIIGHT", screaming into the faces of both friends and strangers, the floor throbbing up and down. The lights slowly went up, revealing people standing on the bar, arms on shoulders. A mess of sweat and stink crescendoed and then faded into the night, LCD Soundsystem our candle leading us to bed. So I have good memories of this album, it's one of my favorites of all time. The sound is ultimately very derivative-- ripping off 1980s dance and electronica and new wave, musicians like New Order and Talking Heads and David Bowie. But it's more of a synthesis of these styles into something greater, and it stands as a pinnacle in the genre. It's both synthetic in its electronica and organic in its live instrumentation and raw vocals. A genre I see this under is "dance-punk" and I guess it captures the sentiment pretty well. I don't know if this is a perfect album. Many of the tracks are similar, the album is a bit long, and sitting through it starts to drag on-- perhaps I should have stood up and moved with it. James Murphy's voice isn't always my favorite, but it's raw and honest. I do feel this album will stand the test of time and be a classic for decades. For its impact and pure enjoyment of listening, it's a 5 in my book.

I was all prepared to not like these guys but by the third song they had totally won me over. I don't know if any other album sounds like this but if they do, they have my vote. Pop music for smart people, and you can dance to it also!!!

Excellent, but the debut is better

Friends was the one I liked the most but most was a vibe that I am rarely in

why is this here

It’s fine.

Really dry, repetitive. After the first two songs it was difficult to focus on this album

love LCD Soundsystem!! i've heard this album tons of times already, but never really bothered to rate in the past Get Innocuous! - 5/5 Time to Get Away - 4/5 North American Scum - 5/5 Someone Great - 5/5 All My Friends - 3/5 Us v Them - 4/5 Watch the Tapes - 4/5 Sound of Silver - 5/5 New York, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down - 5/5 Average score: 4.4/5 (rounding up) whenever Get Innocuous! comes on, it's time to shake some ass. i don't make the rules i'll have to relisten to their other albums to be certain, but i might just consider this their best work. hard to say for sure tho, i love all their albums nearly equally. this one is just so danceable and catchy (with the exception of New York I Love You, but that one's an amazing way to close an amazing listening experience). highly recommend their other releases if you enjoyed this. realistically, this gets 4.5 stars but I'm willing to bump the score up a bit here

Sound of trash. 2/5

I wish I could get more into this but it just doesn't do it for me. Respect for that last track though.

Yea def fell into a whole groove thing there. Liked it much more than I was thinking I would

The whole time I was listening to this I could not help but be reminded of those late 2000s era hipsters in Logan Square. Those dudes who walked around in tight jean shorts and a tank top with cheap plastic sunglasses. Probably a mustache and sockless canvas shoes. Maybe even a sweatband if they were trying too hard. I don't know if this was the band for them, but it made me think of them. I never really got into this band. The music is good; some nice beats. Vocals/lyrics were a little bit annoying at times. I won't add it to my library, but there's a decent chance I'll listen to this again sometime when I'm making a big salad. 2.95 stars.

This is LCD's best. "All My Friends" is their best song, and this is pretty great from start to finish. ("New York..." is kind of ehh, but I appreciate the sentiment if not the execution.)

3,5

Wonderfully weird and heartfelt

Pretty neat, picks up towards the end with sober good tunes. Not very melodic at times but heavy.

We start off with "Get Innocuous!" which was a bit that. Probably a minute too long. There were only a few songs that I thought "this one is a bit too long." Which is a plus, as ormally this kinda stuff does tend to go on. The shorter songs worked a lot better for me (ones that were shorter than... 7 minutes?!) Probably the best song of the bunch for me was the last one: "New York I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down". Ultimately I feel like this was the better of the two albums on the list, but it still is middle of the road for me. Top tracks: "Time To Get Away," "North American Scum," "Us V Them," "Watch The Tapes"

Once again I found I quite enjoyed this group's (and mostly James Murphy's) stuff. And they made me think of Talking Heads. A little synth heavy at times but still head bop worthy. Get Innocuous!, All My Friends, Us v Them, and the title track were solid. Time to Get Away, North American Scum, and Watch the Tapes were real good - bopping all the way.

Fun, catchy album. I was really busy the last couple of weeks and could only listen to it in the background and noticed it was seriously growing on me and got better with every listen. Lots of different styles on the album - I hear Brian Eno in Get Innocuous and Someone Great, Prince in Time to Get Away, the White Stripes in North American Scum, and the Killers in All My Friends (loved the lyrics in this track - makes you really feel how life changes too fast). Normally I'd call being all over the place a negative, but each track is excellent, so I'm ok with it. Bottom line - I was still enjoying it after putting it on repeat for nearly two weeks. When I finally got to a close listen it was even better. Sounds like a 5. I'm normally not into dance/electronica, but this is in a class by itself. Favorite tracks: liked all of them (weakest track was Sound of Silver - good groove but a little too repetitive). I'll put Time to Get Away, North American Scum, and All My Friends as my favorites.

Second album du groupe après ‘American dream’ que je n’avais pas vraiment apprécié (noté 2/5). Celui ci n’est pas mieux … morceaux longs et répétitifs avec très peu de variations. Et le ‘chant’ n’est pas terrible (second morceau par exemple …). Et tous les morceaux sont souvent sur le même rythme, épuisant sur la durée. Je ne suis pas allé au bout. =>1/5

Bisschen eintönig ...

I've always said that the thing about LCD Soundsystem is that it's not necessarily greater than the sum of its parts, but those parts are all great. James Murphy was the kind of guy who got a later start to his music career. He was off on the sidelines, featured deep in the linear notes of other people's albums and a figure within the New York music scene for many years. I still remember a lot of excitement from his debut single, "Losing My Edge", a song about getting older and not being hip any more. It's an ironic place to have launched a career as one of the darlings of early 2000s New York. For someone who's no longer cool, he sure seemed cooler than most other new bands. The song itself was a giant playlist of other artists, a tribute to a forgotten past, but also a reminder than this guy knows his stuff. The following album brought more of his many influences (and one big name drop for Daft Punk), and proved that Murphy's edge was very much intact. The second album is always a challenge for artists though. There's immense pressure to prove that the debut wasn't just a fluke. Fortunately, Murphy knew plenty about music from his years in the studios with others. "Sound of Silver" brought more of the same as the debut, blending bits of punk, krautrock, glam and other influences, but with more precision and maturity. Murphy takes bits of Can, Television, and Bowie, among others to make them his own. It sounds more like collage than passing the torch, although Bowie was impressed enough that he asked Murphy to produce his final album (which he declined, saying that he felt too overwhelmed by it). But this is the point where James Murphy really sets his own mark, with two songs in particular. The nostalgia-filled ode to keeping friends in adulthood, "All My Friends" resonates in a way that's rare to hear in popular music. And anyone who's ever lived in New York can relate to the bittersweet "New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down." The rest of the album is introspective, depressive, sarcastic, and yet very fun to listen to. But those two songs really elevate the rest of the album to something special.

LCD Soundsystem’s Sound of Silver is clever, tightly constructed, and undeniably influential — I respect it more than I love it. The grooves are solid and Murphy’s lyrical wit is sharp, but it never fully pulls me in on a personal level. Glad I heard it, but I don’t see myself returning often. For me, this lands at a solid 3 stars, with a nod to its cultural weight.

There’s some serious millennial bangers on this one. I honestly haven’t revisited this record in a long time. It still sounds great by today’s standards. It brought back fond memories of riding the M train through an ungentrified Brooklyn, people watching, and listening to this using a classic iPod. Oddly, my least favorite song on this album is probably the title track.

Интересно, необычно, последняя песня прям кайф

This album was just really repetitive. I liked only a few songs but after a while, I just thought it was too much of the same thing over and over again. It's almost as if it was on repeat. I do like North American Scum because it was in Step Brothers so I'll give a pass but other than that. LCD Soundsystem is a very bland band that I just could never really wrap my head around. Favorite Songs: Time to Get Away, North American Scum Rating: 2.5/5

Generally speaking, I enjoyed the music on the album. It almost felt like I was listening to 2000s alternative radio - I got a Strokes song, The Killers, a David Bowie song thrown in, a little Fat Boy Slim, is that Talking Heads song? I'd enjoy hearing songs from this album on the radio or as part of a mix. A whole album of it, however, did end up feeling a bit much. The music within each song is quite repetitive, and so...many...sixteenth notes. By the end it sort of felt like I'd spent an hour in a club. I don't mean to be too critical - the songs were fun, it just wasn't the best album-listening experience.

Some good, some bad, but mostly just meh

Genre: Indietronica Big sounds, deep vocals, and some really great production and mixing, Sound of Silver is one of the best indie albums the 2000s has to offer. The vocals are a bit hit or miss for me, but the music is truly magnificent. Lush, beautiful arrangements over big 2-3 chord vamps. Really solid, and really nice and electronic, which I was not expecting. THE TIME HAS COME. THE TIME HAS COME. 4/5

I have friends who love this band. This is something we don’t talk about.

Hadn't listened to it in a while, nowhere near as good as their debut. Feels very sparse, forgot how just how "electronic" (in a bad way) it was, and not much soul to it which is weird because they're amazing with a full live band.

yeah it was ok

Get Innocuous! Feel like I am an in an underground discotheque rave. Love any sound bites with cheerleader-like expressions. 'You can normalise!' yes! thank you ladies! Yes I can! A useful daily affirmation to quash any autism present in my body. Odd though that the outcome then is to 'get innocuous'. Wait is this an anti-autism anthem. Time to get away: Ok. A certified banger. But nothing compared to the 4-track dream run that proceeds it. I like the good old 'omg it is so hard to be a musician' sentiment, but nothing groundbreaking. North American scum: YES. Amazing beat that only gets better with the bass (as most songs do lol) and makes me bop my head like a fucking pigeon. If writing these reviews to impress a boy was not pick me enough, I could add fuel to the fire by going to a house party, playing this song and dancing on the dining room table like Kat Stratford. Also reminds me a lot of 'Daft Punk is Playing in my House'... one of my favourite LCD songs. Someone great: It's a Talking Heads revival and I am loving it. All My Friends: My favourite song on the album, though arguably this love is fuelled by nostalgia. You know what that means! Get ready for more diabolically cringe pick me behaviour. Between Baba O'Reilly, Bittersweet Symphony, and this, getting from A to B in the first year of getting my red Ps was fun as fuck and made me feel really cool. Us vs. them: Here you have a distillation of all things LCD Soundsystem. The layering of sounds is insane and makes me want to boogie. The cow bell-like instrumentals make me want to shake what my mother gave me (nothing). Rattle them bones sister! Watch The Tapes: bass bass bass bass, nothing else to note. Sound of Silver: Title track kind of gets lost amongst the greats in way. Far more instrumental which I quite like. I was on the fence about whether I wanted to purchase this album on vinyl, but this swayed me. Would be lovely to have on in the background while I puzzle. What is even better is you are then met with a complete energy change as subito the album moves to 'New York I Love You'. Overall, 5/5. This shit rocks. Highlight: North American Scum, All My Friends, Us vs. Them

2.5 RYM

I don't know why I'm surprised the folks who made "Dance Yrself Clean" made an album of this quality but this blew me away. Tough to pick songs for my 1001 highlights playlist when every song is this good.

LCD Soundsystem's "american dream" was my 10th album here and my impression of kit-bash eclecticism is unchanged: "Sound of Silver" is the same confidently and well applied new coat of paint onto music from 20+ years before. What has changed is that, close to 500 albums later, I'm now also equipped with an impression of all the Talking Heads, Bowies, Televisions, PILs, Japans etc. and thus with the insight that 'art rock for discotheques' is just not my jam.

I love this album. Perfect blend of indie pop and dance music with dry, sarcastic lyrics. Get Innocuous, All My Friends, Us vs Them and Someone Great are all masterpieces, the zenith of the genre. Masterful build ups and releases. North American Scum and Time to Get Away are great, shorter tunes and New York I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down is a surprisingly beautiful and melanchonic closer, a real change in tone that works absolutely perfectly. The only real downside is the two tune run of the title track and Watch The Tapes. The title track is just repetitive and dull, not helped by being over 7 minutes long, easily the lowlight of the album and the only song I consider skipping. Watch The Tapes is decent, but just a bit meh in comparison to the earlier short songs. Shortest song on the album though. Would be a 9/10, gotta give it a 4.

Great. I listened to this way back in the day and it was great to revisit. I loved the loops, the bitter sweetness and the nostalgia.

Love it. I think its amazing and the type of music I wish I could make. North American Scum, Someone Great, and All My Friends are a great run of songs.

Definitely unique but probably not my favorite. Don’t think I’ll listen to the whole thing. I do love the indie touch on it.

All time Fav

Good album.

There is no reason for any of these songs to be seven or eight minutes long. What could have been an ok album just turns into chore. 2.5/ 5

This is the 7th straight day an album will get a 1 or a 2. Please generate something worthwhile tomorrow. 1.0

Listened to this in the morning when I was in a bit of a rush and it was pleasant enough, but passed me by a little. Listened again in the evening, in a far more relaxed mood, and it was loads better. Definitely some aggregation of parts going on, but I'm on the fence as to whether it all works, or if it's greater than the sum. I would probably go with 3.5, but I'm rounding up to 4.

Painfully reptitive.

For so many reasons, I want to dislike this album, but there's something about it that amuses me.

Better than I anticipated. Started off a bit me but the later songs were relaxing and enjoyable. Or it grew on me..

Two negatives make a positive? I'm not a fan of neither post-punk nor disco, but turns out the post-punk disco is definitely a thing! Really interesting combination of groove, hypnotic rhythms and weird (in a good way) sound design Feels like the work of a great musician playing to their strength, effortless and good. Overall I enjoyed most tracks here, both the catchy and the quirky ones.

Classic album that I’ve never been able to get that into. I always love LCD in small portions, but a whole album gets monotonous to me.

Love it! Gonna listen again for sure.

It's pretty good! Not going to lie, at this moment I am not really in the mood for such a upbeat almost party album lol. I am sure there is a hint of irony behind like more outright hedonostic themes, but I have not been paying attention to the lyrics. The songs are a little too long for my taste but I think the instrumentals are interesting enough to retain my attention. For example, the drum breakdown of "Us v. Them". I reckon this is the point where I have to weigh out the subjective and objective factors around this album. I think that in another time, I would actually really enjoy this album but right now I am not feeling it. Like I recognise this album is real good but I can't seem to be in the mood for it lol so might weigh it lower than I would otherwise out of sheer personal enjoyment. Considering I think this album will hit really hard once I have the mental energy to look at the lyrics and pay attention to the instrumental intricacies, I am comfortable giving it a 4 stars now. 12/9/25

Myliuuuu labai geras albumas

-This album was not what i was expecting, i thought it would be more synthy, while it did have that it was more soft -though this album isnt really my cup of tea id still say it was pretty good -there was a lot of stand outs but some just faded into the background

A bit of fun. Not too bad

Good beats for work, aproved. Definitely has that 2000s NY sound like the strokes. And even NY you're letting me down sounds a little Broadway. Funny lyrics in North American Scum. Thanks for including Canada! Was it too edgy to make a song called American Scum??

Was really enjoying this album from a nostalgia standpoint until 'all my freinds' came on. Has to be one of the absolute most annoying songs on the planet. Shot this album right down to a 1 star. And then they follow it with 'Us v Them' which is also incredibly annoying. I think I may be done with this album.

Not my style of music ngl, 2 good songs tho

Didn’t know what to expect but their name is quite accurate to their music to be honest, the electronic parts anyway. There was also a clear influence of post-punk/ new wave kind of like talking heads with the way it sounded with the rhythm guitar and the vocals sometimes. There was also the electronic aspect as mentioned which was a bit like daft punk or something mixed with punky/ new wave elements. There was also indie rock mixed with like indie dance. It was definitely a variety anyway, most of it was really good, it got a little repetitive sometimes especially with the length of the songs, some of them mixed it up well and kept it interesting with progression within the instrumental like north American scum or all my friends, the latter of which had a repeated piano motif but the drums and electronic parts got more potent and changed towards the end. But some definitely felt a bit more samey throughout the song like someone great or the first song which definitely wasn’t helped by the fact they are on the longer end of song time. Favourites: Time to get away, North American scum, All my friends, Us vs them and watch the tapes. Overall, 7/10.

This is the closest I've come to liking an LCD album. The composition of sounds is really nice, but it does get a bit stale, I can't quite get into the guys voice, and the quality is mostly at the start. I'll give those first few tracks another spin though, there's hope yet.

Surprisingly good album. Recording sounds very high quality. 3.5

Come back to me in 10 years or so and this just might get a 5. Somewhat superb, time will tell.

Quite an amazing album, solid four-and-a-half record in my books. Electronic music with an indie rock sensibility, great recommendation to listen to on a Friday (sadly, I had to listen to it on a Tuesday instead).

I will give it a few listens, but too Techno for me so far. I’ve heard of this album forever and never got around to it

no good

pretty decent

Extremely millennial-core, don't love this

If you weren't drinking cheap beer and trying to out-hipster everyone else in Seattle in 2007, were you really living? 🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙

Very of the era.

Kinda interesting for a brief time, but every song is about 3 minutes too long.

Indie pop electro punk. Had some cool grooves.

Solid listen. A great album for long drives. Sometimes I thought it would be better if I did not know English, like the North American Scum song, just didn’t dig the lyrics much.

Great

All My Friends still hits me in the feels, great memories flooding through listening to this album this morning

The "North American scum-someone Great-all my friends" run of songs is unbelievable

As soon as Sound Of Silver appeared this morning I knew it was going to be a five star straight away, but I listened to it 4 times before lunchtime anyway just to be sure. This album gives me the energy of a 17 year old. My first 5-star rating, masterpiece.

I LOVE LCD SOUNDSYSTEM!!!!!!! This is one of my all-time favorite albums. It is just sooooo good. If you aren't having fun and dancing while listening to this album maybe you just hate fun. So many of these songs are just have such a great groove, and then there are the songs Someone Great, New York I Love You, and All My Friends which are this weird blend of melancholy, nostalgia, and positivity. I know it's not on this album, but I want to do something a little different for this review. In the song Losing My Edge off of their debut James Murphy lists a lot of bands that he was inspired by, and I thought it would be fun to figure out which ones were (+) and were not (-) included in the 1001 albums. Can + Suicide + Captain BeefHeart + Daft Punk + Larry Levan - Beach Boys + Modern Lovers + Niagra - Yaz - This Heat - Pere Ubu + Outsiders - Nation of Ulysses - Mars - The Trojans - The Black Dice - Todd Terry - The Germs + Section 25 - Althea and Donna - Sexual Harassment - A-ha + Dorothy Ashby - PIL + Fania All-Stars - Bar-Kays - The Human League + The Normal - Lou Reed + Scott Walker + Monks + Joy Division + Lower 48 - The Association - Sun Ra - Scientists - Royal Trux - 10cc + Eric B and Rakim - index - Basic Channel - Soulsonic Force - Juan Atkins - David Axelrod - Electric Prunes + Gil Scott Heron + The Slits + Faust + Mantronix - Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines - The Swans - The Soft Cell + The Sonics + Anyways, I love this album! High 5!!!!!!!!!!

some good songs some bad

eh

There are parts of this that could be cool but in the end it’s all just meh

Started out really bad. Get Innocuous was terrible. Was worried that this was going to be a total slog. But then Time To Get Away was a little better, repetitive though. North American Scum was pretty funny, the highlight of the album (actually the only good song). The rest of the album continued the whole repetitive but ok sound. Wasn't as bad as the first impression, but not great either. Best song: North American Scum

Lobotomy: The Album. A few decent tracks, a few terrible tracks. Nothing special. I like the first and the last track the most, also the one where they yell north america. 3/5

James Murphy has made some amazing albums, but this might be his masterpiece.

Cool :3

Não é meu estilo de música. CVJ Neko.

I have no idea why this band works so well for me. It's incredibly repetitive, and not a style of music I actually like, but for some reason I just can't get enough.

Kinda dumb. Voice is rough. Interesting tho.

i didn't think there was much inherently wrong with this album, it just didn't excite me very much. i thoroughly enjoyed 'all my friends' but apart from that i wouldn't be able to tell one track from another - they just weren't very memorable. i do enjoy this genre and there were moments/songs that i would give 4/5* to but as an album as a whole it just felt quite repetitive. i thought it was going to be far more gripping and inspiring than it was and was slightly disappointed when most of the tracks had little depth to them.

I had expectations for this album. I feel the album has a great concept but it gets a bit repetitive. I'm also not the biggest fan of how much Electronica is in this album.

Entiendo por qué está tan bien calificado. Está muy bien pensado. Solo no es algo que en este momento quisiese escuchar.

❤️ : Someone Great 😊 : Get Innocuous 👍 : All my Friends Sound of Silver NY, I Love You but You're Bringing Me down 😶 : Time to Get Away Us V Them Watch the Tapes ☹️ : North American Scum

Amazing production here. Someone Great is an alltime favourite of mine. The songs might go on too long but I don't mind at all

It was ok. Catchy in parts but overall a bit long and repetitive 3 ⭐️

Not my type of music but the last song on the album really brought up my rating of this

Love this group and love this album

Super infectious beats. Am already familiar with LCD, and this isn't my favourite, but still very good.

LCD Soundsystem is one of those groups where the highs are undeniable - when they land, the hits are fun, smart, and instantly memorable. But outside of those peaks, a lot of their catalogue drifts into repetition and tedium for me. Sound of Silver is a perfect example: it contains some truly great tracks that capture their clever mix of dance-punk and art-rock, but the rest can feel like filler if you’re not fully on board with their style. It’s not really my genre, but I’ll admit, their best songs are a blast.

This is the first album on the project that I didn’t listen to. Not because I don’t like it, but because I’ve played this album from the beginning to end so many times (including recently) that there is no need. James Murphy’s brilliance and uniqueness is infuriating because nothing else before or since has sounded like peak LCD Soundsystem … and I want more!

5/5 for all my friends alone

holy shit, that three track run from someone great - all my friends - us v them is astonishingly good even though the rest is not quite as good, I think this album gets at least an 8/10 just for that

Really good, catchy on the first listen. Something I will be listening for a long time.

Us vs them... the drums and bass intro was great. It had a fun sound but didnt give me that dichotomy but a harmony to it. The beats are very similar in every song and the Lyrics don't speak to me well. It doesnt feel deep or personal

Nah

Amazingg!

4 stars

To (loosely) quote Stephen Cobert, It's like I died and went to Brooklyn This album hit better back then. I thought maybe it would immediately bring me back to 2007/8 because this album was inescapable. But maybe, BECAUSE it was so ubiquitous, going back in time couldn't happen. Maybe it hasn't been long enough. Maybe, I've just moved on. Keeping the rating for the memories

super groovy. get innocuous, time to get away, north american scum!! us and them. really really good. read all the pamphlets! sound of silver lol. New york rocks. purchased on finishing.

I’m dying to get away. 🤪 This one’s not for me.

i quite like it, very danceable

I appreciate that LCD Soundsystem has a sound that's unmistakably LCD Soundsystem. I'm not always in the mood for them but when I am, this album is the one.

Starts out sounding like someone is banging on a screen door. It’s not a bad album but it’s definitely not for me.

Okay I realize I listen to these while I work, so music like this will always get high reviews from me cause it keeps me jamming. Anyway, loved it, New York is amazing

Bin offenbar zu alt für diese Welt. Wieder ein 0815-Lassmichinruh-Album.

Je suis... fourré. Je n’aime pas le côté dance, mais il y a beaucoup de belles choses sur cet album. La dernière toune est une petite ballade voie, piano, basse, drum (et un peu de guitare électrique vers la fin, juste avant la grande finale). Très belle, douce, avec un petit côté mélancolique. C’est un album qui s’améliore grandement plus on l’écoute. Au début, c’était clair : c’est pas pour moi. Mais là, rendu au fil d’arrivée, je ne suis plus aussi certain. Bon, j’ai réécouté vite vite et, évidemment, c’est moi qui l’ai jugé trop rapidement. Ça mérite une deuxième écoute, au minimum. Probablement beaucoup plus, pour être honnête.

Despite this coming out as my hipsterdom was an its ascendence, I never got into this band. I think I was too into hardcore or something. Anyway, because this missed me, the disco dancing stuff kinda misses me. As electronic music, it feels anemic. As neo-dance, it feels one note. As dance punk, it feels more like a movie soundtrack. As post-punk, well, it's probably there, but the way it sneers feels a little, uh, on the nose? That seems pretty post-punky. Anyway, this is all to say that there are some good sounds here but not having been ripping PBRs on my fixie to this, I don't keep the good feelings around.

Ok

Enjoyed it! My two favorites were "All My Friends" and "Someone Great." Definitely plan to listen to LCD's other projects.

Meh. Worth a spin, but ultimately vapid.

Man I was never gonna enjoy this. It’s drawn out (the songs the album itself is a little longer than it probably should be but not terrible) and super electronic. Just not my vibe

This album is like a party you want to leave in the middle of. It doesn't sound bad at all, but the repetitiveness (my biggest gripe with electronica) gets old fast. It's not that long of an album, but I would enjoy it more if it were halved, I think. There's just no emotional journey, deep thought, or intricate musicianship to keep eight minutes of, say, Us v Them interesting.

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

An album I've loved since 2007

North American Scum belong in an early 2000s coming of age story montage (not negative) i like when the instruments :)

Electronica I like Drum machines & synthesizers Disco fiesta Kinda repetitive nothing crazy

Pretty, pretty good

didnt really like any of the songs

"Time To Get Away" is a bad ass song... if you can get past the opener... a seven minute, meh fest... "Get Innocuous"... the album starts sounding like the LCD i know... "North American Scum" is a raucous, party workout... as the album goes along... "All My Friends" is another seven minute song, that sounds like a more alternative anthem type song, ala The Killers... the instrumentation is always fresh with these guys... you don't quite know what's real, what's loops, or whatever... but, sometimes, not all the time, they get into, what i think is their signature sound... like "Daft Punk Is Playing In My House", which is not on this record... but, "Time To Get Away" is in that vein... as is "North American"... "Us V Them" is also in that groove... it's like if Kraftwerk had a love child with CAKE... "Watch The Tapes" is also what i expect from these guys... the album ends with the downtempo song... "New York, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down"... which picks up and becomes an epic ending to the album... then slows down and the curtain comes down... is it an album you must hear before you die? yes... Five Stars...

Definitely sounds like 2007. Not really for me but North America Sun was good in Step Brothers. Us v. Them and Time to Get Away were other good ones. The whole album had a uniform and solid sound but the whole thing just felt too long. The themes were overplayed and repetitive. 56 minutes divided by nine songs equals over six minutes each. Those are long songs. The shortest song is almost four minutes, which is about the right length for an average song.

Strange, appropriate for random background sound to drown out other noise.

Big anxious beats and synth

This is a good album. Yes there are songs that become annoying (the foundational beat to All My Friends - yes, I went there) but there is more good here than bad. North American Scum, Someone Great and of course NYILY are top notch. 4/5

Nid meega speziell, en chline Bloc Party vibe

Interesting, it's very much uniquely their style, a fun listen.

Bra skiva och jag förstår varför den anses viktig. Lite spretig och inte så sammanhängande, men många bra låtar.

Solid all the way through. A very good look at the early 2000’s electronic sound evolving.

Splendid

We know this one. It’s Friday night, fall 2013

Wanted to love this. Wanted this to hit my nostalgia bone, but it came up short. Felt embarrassing and dated. Some good songs but just not go-back-and-listen worthy

This is the soundtrack to me driving around the west valley running errands at the hardware store, the nursery, the grocery, the library, watering the plants, tending the tomatoes, rearranging the garage—a full soundscape landscape headscape for me to enjoy the absolute fuck out of my two hours a week of total disconnect. You can say a lot about James Murphy but to me the most important thing is that he exists on the outer edges of the same frequencies as I do. I mean, if I had his talent and I had gone down that DJ electronic road, LCD Soundsystem is like exactly the shit I would’ve made. Feels like a reminder from one of my parallel lives, a pull towards it, like the tiny skull ring I wear, a tug on the mooring line whenever I feel I’m drifting too far into The Land of Responsibility, The Realm of the Buttoned-Up, the grey fog of middle-age parenthood and busyness, the productivity productivity productivity. This album almost killed him and that’s a reminder, too, that whatever edges he’s pulling me towards aren’t high clover, either, that every realm has its cliffs and quagmires and unanswerable questions, but goddamn am I happy he made it through and put this out.

First time listener and I’m sold!

Mouais

This might be my favorite album of theirs. It was a really good exercise to listen these songs within context of the album and realize how cohesive the whole thing is. Having lived in NYC for 14 years, the last track will always gut me. That piano at the end….

Not my kind of music

soundtrack of my summer i adore this album

Increíble!!!! Me encantó la fusión rock y electrónica

Wow, what an iconic album. 5 stars from my heart and soul. I cried when I saw them live in 2016.

2.5?? Maybe still 3? I have mixed feelings about this. I listened to this whole album while folding laundry and i definitely locked in and felt like i was in a fever dream but not a bad one? It kind of faded into good background music at times. Sometimes funky? Sometimes i was just ready for the next song? Idk if i would go out of my way to listen to it again but yet i appreciate the time and layering of sounds it took.

A classic which has a lot of terrible imitations 4.5*

Genuinely surprised by how much I enjoyed this.

I enjoyed this as much as I enjoy hearing a kid banging on pots and pans in the kitchen

Modern day alternative classic

Get Innocuous: 2/10 Time to get away: 6/10 North american scum: 3 [Lyrics 2/10 + Sound 7/10] Someone great: 6 [Lyrics 6/10 + Sound 7/10] All my friends: 6 [Lyrics 8/10 + Sound 5/10] Us V them: 2 [Lyrics 5/10 + Sound 3/10] Watch the tapes: 8 [Lyrics 6/10 + Sound 8/10] Sound of silver: 5 [Lyrics 4/10 + Sound 7/10] NY, ILY but you're bringing me down: 7 [Lyrics 8/10 + Sound 10/10] Teniendo en cuenta que no estoy acostumbrada a escuchar este estilo de música, 7m de intro para Get Innocuous se me hizo eterna, algunos sonidos eran muy molestos y repetitivos, cuando llegó la parte cantada fue un alivio (que duró muy poco), es esto lo que siente la gente que toma setas? No, gracias. A partir de la 6ª canción empezó a dolerme la cabeza. Estaba deseando que llegara la última canción para quitarmelo de encima pero precisamente la última "NY ILY" es la mejor del álbum y me ha gustado un montón. Jolin, qué pena! Porque parecía que vocalmente el cantante era bastante malillo pero para el género que es, no necesita cantar, si bien dice algunas palabras claves en ciertos puntos de la canción que le da un toque de aire fresco.. sentía que cantaba con pena o vergüenza y todo eso se disipó durante "NY ILY". Esta canción si volvería a escucharla. Top 3: NY ILY, Time to get away, Watch the tapes Least favorite: Get innocuous! Score: 3/10 Como dije, durante "Us V Them" empezó a dolerme la cabeza y sentirme mareada, son ritmos muy cargantes, no puedo centrarme escuchándolo en segundo plano y tampoco es un álbum al que le dedicaría full atención. Lo recomiendo? No. Son pocas canciones pero la mayoría dura 6-8m lo que en total hacen 56m de álbum; cuando no es tu estilo, la voz no es muy allá y el sonido te llega a marear.. se hace interminable. PS: Recomendaría mucho escuchar la última canción, es lo mejor del álbum y ahí SI que hay voz, ojalá la hubiera sacado antes porque los primeros 51m son eternos.

Was cool. I liked the back story.

I really enjoyed this! I've always wanted to listen to LCD Soundsystem. I get the hype. The sounds are great!

This is some dope friggin stuff baby! Bring back dance music!

Finale to the LCD Soundsystem entries. I was disappointed by the phenomenally milquetoast “American Dream”, but still have an open mind about this band. I’ve seen LCD Soundsystem being discussed a few times on the Internet and think there’s a chance for me to come around to this band. I can never have enough electronic albums in my rotation, too. Hmm. My criticism of American Dream continues to ring true. This album is, again, quite minimal – a style which doesn’t really appeal to me. Still, there’s some interesting sounds in here. “Someone Great” is the highlight of the album. There’s an interesting softness to the track despite featuring some harsh electronic synthesisers. I also enjoy the wavy cosmic sound during the intro and the xylophone/robotic tones that appear during the chorus. The songwriting and vocal performances are pretty solid, too. They really fired on all cylinders with that track. However, I also appreicate the successor track “All My Friends”. While admittedly a little too long, the lively, minimal piano and building tension on works pretty nicely. “Us V Them” is among the worst songs on the album, though as a cowbell enjoyer I’d be remiss to express my respect for such a bold, ambitious track. "NYILYBYBMD" is a solid closer. I enjoy me a little piano ballad, and the lyrics are a pretty fun listen. Wish I could check the entry for this album in the book, but alas! I can’t. I only have the 2005 edition of the book. In any case, I get the impression that this album is a respectable pick. It’s acclaimed, was commercially successful and is an early example of how the Internet has increased musical outreach. I suppose I can cosign this inclusion, even if I’m generally pretty apathetic towards it.

5 stars purely for the duo of Someone Great and All My Friends, but North American Scum and New York I Love You have probably been some of my most played songs since this album came out.

I discovered this album, and subsequently this band, in high school. I pretty quickly realized the greatness of songs like All My Friends, New York I Love You, Someone Great, Us vs. Them. But the rest of the songs I thought were filler. Coming back to this years later has made me realize how great of an album this is, front-to-back. All insanely danceable and catchy. Plus this band has one of the most energetic live shows I've ever seen. 4.5 stars, bumping to 5

It’s mind blowing to me that 8 times out of 10, I find the 3rd track on an album to be the best one on said album. So….let’s see Good production on this album. The vocals seem to be left on distortion for almost every song. I wouldn’t say it works negatively against them, it’s just an observation. I like samples, we have that. It’s got that techno vibe Electronica feel Hints of pop Choic cut: North American Scum

El álbum comienza muy sólido, los primeros temas me gustaron mucho. Es música repetitiva, pero no es monótona, incluso siendo temas largos encuentran la manera de producir suficientes variantes para no aburrir en la escucha. Me gustan la instrumentación, los timbres que utilizan, la voz y las letras. Sin embargo, hacia la segunda mitad del álbum se pierde algo, incluso por momentos parece otra banda. Creo que la fuerza con que empieza el álbum no se sostiene en los siguientes temas. Suena mucho más a un intento de Talking Heads. Tampoco es que el resto del álbum sea malo, pero creo que no estuvo a la altura de los primeros temas. Tal vez reordenando los tracks la experiencia de escucha sea otra, pero no es el caso lamentablemente.

I enjoyed this album a lot. A bit of Techno dance music. It was listenable.

I have heard this before and did not remember liking it as much as I do now! Maybe it grew on me, but either way, it feels ahead of its time in some respects. ETA: the more I listen to this, the more I love it. Bumping this up to 5/5

The first album that I encountered here that is actually bad. Even the songs that are actually good on the album are boring and not interesting at all.

Decent

If you like it it’s good

Started listening at 12AM This one has lyrics yay, also great soundtrack to catch the bus with. Can definitely tell how people dance to it. North American Scum stuck out to me very positively thus far. I really like the vocals and the swelling background music, very neat. While I as a filthy European don’t fully get it, there’s definitely a feel here I like. „Don’t blame the Canadians“ lmao „New York I love you but you’re bringing me down“ and the title song „Sound of Silver“ really bring the „fun party at the end of the world“ vibe around to the fall out for the people that mourn their future. Definitely my favorite songs on the album

Dull and repetitive.

I actually like this more than I expected to. Reading through some of the reviews I assumed this would be extremely repetitive but I was pleasantly surprised! Some songs go in for a bit longer than perhaps they should, but start to finish this was really enjoyable.

Todos mis amigos saben que “el consumo cornudístico” está oxidando mi gusto. Hay nichos que te pasan por al lado, te asedían, y de pronto te encontrás adentro, sin salida. Yo ya había caminado las calles virtuales de la cornudez, ida y vuelta. Todo lo que brillaba no era oro: eran aritos perdidos que nunca más volvían a ver a su par. Después de pasar meses analizando y resaltando las discografías de Taylor Swift y Matty Healy de The 1975 —para ver cuánto es que se charlaban entre estribillos en sus letras—, y de ver dos temporadas de The Buccaneers, distraída decidiendo si el amor de la vida de Nan era Theo o Guy... caí en la cuenta: LCD Soundsystem ya se había filtrado en mi simulación, en forma de sampleos y covers en intros. Yo ya sabía a que sonaba la plata cuando entendí que no había salida de esta codicia en la que estaba totalmente absorbida sonoramente. Empecé a notar que mi gusto en entretenimiento se estaba deteriorando y remixando tanto... que se estaba oxidando. Pero ahora le digo oro a la plata, y plata a lo que roba con ser oro. Porque, seamos sinceros: yo estaba considerando a Matty Healy un poeta, cuando lo único que hace es elegir qué tema de James Murphy hacerles escuchar a sus músicos. Jack Antonoff, obvio, tiene todo el multipistas de este álbum de cuando estaba aprendiendo a usar el programita de producción musical. Murphy desempolvó la herencia de Kraftwerk, Bowie y Eno, girando todas las perillas de los sintes analógicos hasta encontrar el sonido exacto de su nostalgia. Él necesitaba que todas sus amistades se terminen para que otras cosas buenas pasen. Como agregarle capas de crítica, melancolía honesta y guitarras post-punk y art rock a la electrónica. Un género que, en su vacío, se fue llenando. Una mina de plata descubierta sonido a sonido, para ver hasta qué punto puede sonar bailable la melancolía sin que el existencialismo se quede sentado en una esquina, gruñendo porque nadie lo saca a bailar. La autorreferencia encuentra un groove donde sentirse cómoda sin volverse mecanismo de defensa, entre ritmos techno y house. El tracklist no se siente como un Us vs. Them, sino como un todo cohesivo e hipnótico, con himnos para la era post-dosmilera. Este disco es como entrar a los 2010s con una banda sonora ya aprendida. North American Scum, All My Friends y Watch the Tapes entraron directo a mi playlist para recorrer las calles de mi ciudad, y darme cuenta de que la amo... porque me está tirando abajo. Porque en la jungla de concreto, a veces me descubro diciendo las mismas frases que me enseñaron mis viejos, como un sonido sistemático, al mismo tiempo que James Murphy cita a Lou Reed, Daft Punk, Bowie y The Fall. Y en esa, te das cuenta: que las amistades se resquebrajan, que la vida siempre te tiene que encontrar viejo y riéndote del nacionalismo norteamericano. Que el concreto no es eterno ni garantía de nada, sino un sonido gris que envejece por debajo de nuestros pasos. Nuestros gustos envejecen y mueren simbólicamente. Y ahí, el frío concreto: no vamos a poder decir nada nuevo si seguimos reconociendo samples en los versos del mejor compositor de nuestra generación. ¿El mejor? ¿Qué decimos? ¿Un poeta? No todo lo que brilla es oro. A veces es simplemente el gusto volviéndose a refinar, siguiendo los consejos de la abuela: "Con un cepillito y un poco de pasta de dientes, todo collar de plata se vuelve reluciente"

Would not buy

This is another one of those albums that I just plain missed because my kids were growing up and I guess I was just getting old. But while I was a bit dismissive of it through the early tracks, when "All My Friends" came on, it just knocked me out! Am I the last person over 30 in the English-speaking world to find this truly terrific song?! In fact, it made me go back and listen to the earlier tracks again with a much greater appreciation. This is definitely worth a spin or three.

Fantastic album, I listen to this regularly. It has a vibe that is hard to find elsewhere. Danceable, catchy, and fun while keeping it cool

more fun than expected

in the perfect set/setting this is still a 5 for me. but i’d probably be yapping over it with all my friends on the dance floor

almost want to give this a 2. I just really didn’t enjoy it all that much, even though I don’t find the sound bad or offensive. I like some other LCD soundsystem songs, but listening to an entire album was just pretty boring to me

Liked it a lot as a lad, really not fun to listen to now. Feels so whiny and incel. Dance songs that don't make me want to dance, emotional songs that don't make me feel emotion, etc Fav song: Someone Great

Not bad. Would like to hear more. The first track was cool

nicht so wirklich meins, nicht aktiv heut gehört aber kenn ich bereits und fands ganz nett, nichts das mich zur wiederkehr anregt

"get innocuous" and "us vs them" alone are incredible dance punk classics. An amazing mix of 8 minute dance punk bangers with poppier tracks and 2 incredible slow jams. "Someone great" is likely the best song in LCDs discography. And that doesn't even mention the incredibly catchy universal hit "all my friends". Easiest 5/5 and an album that will stand the test of time. Absolute classic.

Yo no era muy de música electrónica. Discos como este me acercaron a ella

5/5 no notes

Boring, too long, and just not my thing.

Amazing sound throughout when you listen closely. Some outstanding songwriting as well. Not sure every song stands up well enough for 5 stars but it is very close. Would maybe be 5 on another day.

I am fond of a few LCD Soundsystem songs, but generally capitalised on the ones more based on melody than the disco/indie/dance sound that they are well known for. As a result, I've never really bothered to listen through a whole album. School boy error! I knew I'd like this from the first song that I'd like this album. And the opener 'Get Innocuous!' was like a demo version of the album. It had the drum machine type beats, the understated disco guitar, quirky vocals and grimey bass. In fact, the grimey/garage bass that ends up on the album throughout was a highlight. I haven't done HUGE research into this group, but I can imagine a guy in his bedroom with drum machines, keyboards and a bass really having a great time coming up with there. Boy! I should have been doing that in 2007. 'All My Friends' and 'New York, I Love You but You're Bringing me Down' are epic indie tunes, and I am a huge fan of the latter. But, the rest of the album was a real pleasure to listen to. My highlight would be 'Someone Great', a dance tune that captured the indie song sensibilities in the lyrics/vocal performance. I enjoyed the dance elements as well. 5 Stars Album 4 (done over the days of 2 and 3) 23/7/2025

Boring sounds. Annoying beat. Stupid lyric.

Algo le falta, no sé muy bien bien qué es pero me deja esa sensación

Siento que es el set de un barsito de Palermo por momentos. No es la gran cosa pero safa

Onda Daft Punk pero se queda a mitad de camino, honestamente me embolo

No me dijo mucho. Tenía algunas partes moviditas y copadas pero no pudo hacer que le preste atención tampoco

Starting off strong! I’ve never heard of this band but I really liked this album. it’s certainly very different from what i normally listen to. favorite song: North American Scum

more about vibes more than anything!

First half took a bit to get into - not my music taste - the mix of instruments was irritating to my ears. The last three songs from watch the tapes, sound of silver and new York I love you but you're bringing me down - much better. Overall 2.5, with some hidden gems.

Packed full of hits - a definitive electro indie album. More cow bell!

A superb album from the coolest band.

The amount of patience displayed on this record is staggering. Their willingness to let every idea ride out for as long as it can doesn’t dampen the urgency of the LP. For how long and awkward these songs are, they are oddly poppy and accessible. It would be easy for seven minute long, repetitive synth based tracks to alienate a broad listenership, but James Murphy and co seem to have no trouble in making this an album for everyone. Perhaps the most surprising thing about Sound of Silver is how different this LP is from their debut. All the rock elements are gone and are replaced with a much better and more refined set of dance sensibilities (with the exception of the closing song). LCD Soundsystem seem to realise their remit on Sound Of Silver. They take this new, improved sound and manage to fill almost an hour with no duds. Their unique blend of indie infused dance scratches an itch that music fans cannot find elsewhere. ‘Get Innocuous!’ is confident and brave opening track, it doesn’t show its hand immediately but slowly beckons the listener in before rewarding them with a belter of a dance track. We have to wait two minutes and ten seconds to get vocals on this record - which is a statement of intent on an indie album. When the vocals do hit, they are so weird, so bold, so perfect. It’s intoxicating. LCD Soundsystem do have clear influences directing their writing, but it’s their specific blend of these ideas which is inspired. James Murphy is a highly talented and versatile lyricist. ‘North American Scum’ shows off his talent for humorous observation - “And for those who think we are from England. We’re not. No.” Just one track later he is bringing us to tears with ‘Someone Great’, a track which always floors me with its brutally honest sentimentality and kindheartedness. “I wake up and the phone is ringing, surprised as its early. And that should be a perfect warning that something’s a problem. To tell the truth I saw it coming, the way you were breathing. But nothing can prepare you for it: the voice on the other end.” Wow. Perhaps his most well observed moment sits on the title track. “Sound of silver talk to me. Makes you want to feel like a teenager. Until you remember the feelings of a real life emotional teenager. Then you think again.” A line good enough to be repeated a thousand times. The repeating piano line on ‘All My Friends’ is superb and manages to pump through the entire song without getting tired. Also, the trademark DFA records cow bells* throughout this album are so much fun (*see The Rapture’s Echoes). ‘New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down’ is a great closer and acts as a reward for any listener for whom a dance album isn’t their usual bag. You could see this track fitting snugly amongst older songs like ‘Movement’ and ‘Tribulations’. I think it takes a bit of time for some albums to settle into their “classic” status. People never want to believe that 10/10 albums are currently being released. Eleven years on from its creation it is clear now more than ever that this is an almost perfect album.

They can do something i absolutely love (someone great, all my friends, new york i love you) but most often do something i can’t love (high quality dance punk) I toyed with a low 5 because these three songs are incredible and someone great and new york might be two of the best tracks i’ve ever heard in indie, but i’m landing on a high 4 because the dance punk never quite fully engages me

Very excited for this one, as I'm seeing LCD Soundsystem in August. I love LCD's ability to evoke a time WAY before their own in a way that feels truly authentic and not just nostalgic or repetitive. They aren't emulating the sound from that era, they ARE the sound. It's just great old school electronica vibes. Every song has an addictive quality that really makes me feel like I should be dancing already. I've heard a lot of these songs individually and love them, I just haven't heard them all in order! There's just such a great energy to all of the songs without it feeling overdone. I don't usually like long songs but somehow LCD Soundsystem is addictive enough that I never want them to end. I love how the entire album builds to New York I love you but you're bringing me down. It's the pinnacle of scathing commentary and it's so dang good. It's a complete subversion from where you expect the album to end. So good!

Otro álbum de 6.5/10 la verdad que este ha tenido sonidos muy chulos muy cibernéticos y psicodélicos y a la vez muy similar a un rock experimental. Volvería a escucharlo pero no a guardarme una canción quizás.

Couple of good jams, otherwise not my favorite

i love this album. Groovy, fun, chaotic. The closer is one of my all time favourites. Fav tracks - All

Simply one of the best albums ever

not my cup of tea

5 all day, every day.

Repetitive to a fault. Mindless garbage with no soul or emotion.

This is NOT a must listen to album. This a neo-disco dance music album. Definitely a groove, but not essential. It's actually not a bad album. Even though it's outside my norm, there are a few songs with catchy funk grooves and worth listening to. Best Songs Time To Get Away Someone Great All My Friends Us V Them

Great album. Love the layering on the songs. Some of the tracks do drone on a little bit but, still it is fun album to listen to.

Wasn’t super familiar with this (besides All My Friends) and really enjoyed it.

This is in my honorable mention list on StoryWorth about my Top Ten albums of all time. Was surprised to see the vast majority of the music came from James Murphy, given he has a huge band in concert. All great tracks, although I have to be in the mood for New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down. Favorites are Us v. Them, Get Innocuous!, and the title track. North American Scum is the title sequence music on an Apple+ show we like, The Buccaneers, done by another artist. If you like the album, check out the 6 track EP, A Bunch of Stuff — cool remixes of songs from SOS. Obvy, a 5 for me.

Tracks 1-5 good, tracks 6-8 abysmal, track 9 again good. I don’t think I can give a 5 when 1/3 of the album sucks.

Gives me flashbacks of the mid and late 00s, in clubs in Tokyo and Rhode Island. Not all of the memories it brings up are pleasant ones, though I suppose I have the music to thank for making me sort through them again.

Djdj

Not something I would have chosen, but I enjoyed enough of this to feel it needs revisiting in future

Too much cowbell. Ooommf dragged on a bit

I had never heard this one before now. Great album. “All My Friends” is one of the most wonderful songs I’ve heard in a long time, “New York I Love You” is a fantastic closer, and while “Get Innocuous!” takes a while to build up, it is a great time once it hits it’s stride. If I could levy any complaint at this album, some of the songs do go on for a little too long, but I could definitely see myself returning to this one and giving it a 5. I loved this album.

One of my favourites of all time. Simple as.

Still on my walking holiday in the Lakes. Only chance I had was to stream it when I happened to have a mobile signal. Boiling hot day so I was suffering in the heat. This album did nothing at all to relieve the suffering. In fact it made matters worse as this stuff never sounds great to me. 1/5 11/7/25

I don’t mind this, but I don’t enjoy it. I’m glad I heard it.