Sound of Silver

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

It’s fine.

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.

3,5

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"

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.

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

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

2.5 RYM

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.

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

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..

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.

-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??

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.

pretty decent

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.

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

some good songs some bad

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Nid meega speziell, en chline Bloc Party vibe

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

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.

Was cool. I liked the back story.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I first heard of LCD Soundsystem from the This Is Happening album, so I dived into the older stuff after really enjoying that album. This album is good, but I don't think it's as good as This Is Happening. 2.86/5 stars = 3 stars. Good tunes: North American Scum Someone Great All My Friends

Always heard of the band, never actually heard them. They are cooler than I imagined in my head. Doesn't set the world alight, but cool. Favourite tracks: Get Innocuous!, Time to Get Away, North American Scum, New York, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down.

Could have been shorter.

Solid. Sound of Silver is the Song

Kuunneltava. Jopa jamitti vähän

Vähän oli taas erikoista ”rokkia”

High energy music for sure. Not quite sure how to listen to it without my mind racing from espresso. I think I get the appeal but I could also live without it

This isn’t typically my style of music, but for some reason I really got into the vibe for a while. I’m surprised this is classified as “rock” (feels more like modern funk). Some of the songs did drag on for far too long and by the end of the album I found my mind drifting away again, but it was very nice while it lasted.

Some great grooves that were a lot of fun, but the repetitiveness of the lyrics over an hour really takes away from the rating. I would potentially rate this higher if there was less singing.

Beep boop boop bop

Equal parts interesting and irritating.

6/10

I did not expect Sound of Silver on this list. Not that its not good, but their first album is probably way more influential as a modernized Devo electronica/art rock sound. This album still has some of that, but loses some of the charm for more indie rock sound which is probably more generally approachable. Loved the unique synths and bass used throughout. Album could use a radio cut version where each track is 3-5min instead of averaging at 7min as I feel like the unique sounds are better in bursts. - mitona

Cool arrangements, if a little monotone and repetitive at times. Easy to put on in the background.

Fun as hell even though it’s repetitive, and definitely shines a light on a sound a lot of people really wanna hear

Folks, I am not a dancer. I am a nerd through and through, not blessed with rhythm, and to add to that I listened to this album while on a two-hour drive. As such, I am not the type of person and was not in the situation to enjoy this type of music. It was okay--as with most dance music, it overstays its welcome fairly frequently (Us V Them could so easily be far shorter and would be a lot better for it; I feel like the repetition of "over and over again" just had to be self-aware), but the beats were catchy and distinct from song to song. "New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down" is quite a good song, and coincidentally the least dancy on the album. Overall, it isn't quite my thing, but there's a whole lot worse out there.

I liked it better than I thought I would.

I didn’t hate it as much as the last LCD Soundsystem I got on here. Some parts were pretty good and catchy, overall though still not my jam.

Loved "North American Scum". The sound of LCD Soundsystem is definitely adjacent to Talking Heads.

Electro and rock with vocals that are rock. Very unique sound and well crafted

Thisbis myb4th album, and aftee almost 150 albums I am rating it. Well, happy I took this time tbh because I needed Talking Heads fresh in my ear to pick the refefences. The album is ok, I get that it's experimental but apart from "New York, I love You" and "North American Scum" , I got bored by the eletronic sounds and the repetition. Also, Harry Styles kinda reminded me I needed to listen to this album because "aperture" is a total ripp off frm the band and this era. I see the impact clearly now of tthe band, but still kinda meh for me. 3/5

Bee loves them so much

6/10

eigentlich nicht so gut aber letstes lied fand ich schon cool. Das New york i love you but your are bringing me down

Bel sound elettro, troppo altalenante per i miei gusti però.

Possibly my latent frame of mind and that I'm feeling a bit under the weather, but this was anxiety inducing.

Enjoyed it for sure. They don't all hit, but there are enough that do. Fav track: North American Scum

I liked this album better than I thought I would.

Much, much better than I expected from the electronica genre label. More of a fusion with alt-rock, and I thought it was pretty enjoyable.

Some good stuff here but every song is just a little too long.

Good, fun, energetic mix of electronic music and rock.

It was...okay. It reminded me of a lot of other bands, and also of late-80s video games. Probably won't listen again if I'm honest, but not rushing to turn it off either.

I like the vibes, very funky Fav song - North American Scum 3/5

RADIO BROKER

Not too bad

The songs are so repetitive and annoying that they almost become addictive but maybe that was the plan. 3 stars or C-.

Kind of monotonous. Maybe all the songs just need to be shorter? I really can't listen to them without hearing all their influences (I was getting a lot of Spoon today) but I'm sure they'd sound better to fresher ears.

I’ve listened to a little LCD Soundsystem before but never quite clicked with them. While the entirety of this album didn’t blow me away the album was pretty solid with All My Friends, Watch The Tapes, and New York, I love You but You’re Bringing Me Down, being true standouts.

3 stars

First listen

Pretty good album for the background. Not much to say on this one

It's a vibe. A good vibe. But a repetitive vibe.

Good record, really liked the sound. Somewhere between the strokes and daft punk. Energizing, and a total vibe.

This is another one that I'd call "fun"- I think making fun music is something LCD really excels at. It seems like their songs always take a while to get to the payoff, but somehow it doesn't feel like it's as long as it is, and you don't mind the wait because it's a fun ride. The tracks on Sound of Silver pretty much all were in that mold. In particular, the grooves were good and the music experience was enjoyable. The lyrics and vocals are probably the least attractive part of the mix on most of the songs, but they serve their purpose well. If you consider them as instruments instead of the lead focus of the composition, they work a lot better. The album flowed, even though each song had a fairly distinct feel. It did start to get a bit tedious toward the end for me, though, and I felt like it should've been a bit shorter. All considered, there's just nothing really here to make it great. Most of the songs are good, though a few fell below that. It probably would've been better overall if there was one fewer song on it. North American Scum and All My Friends were the best tracks on the album to me, but they still weren't better than pretty good. Definitely not strong enough to carry the rest of the album higher. It's solid, but not more than that. Overall: 3.25/5

It was good but I didn’t feel a lot of the songs, felt a bit generic.

3 stars I’m not beholden to this album for nostalgia reasons. While this was the kind of music I listened to at the time I did not listen to it until years later. It’s good, with some solid tracks. But the tracks are a bit overlong and not all of them have as much replay value. Still a mostly great listen.

There's something about this album that's never quite clicked with me. I do like it, but it just doesn't resonate with me like some of their other work.

dali rade

I like LCD Soundsystem, but I don't think I've heard a consistent album from them yet. Having said that, I do like a lot of their individual songs. Liked Songs Added: North American Scum Someone Great New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down

No me pareció buena manera de conocer esta banda, pero tampoco terrible. Alguna que otra cosa rica, nada más. Nota: 2.7

Fun, funky, quirky, cool.

Sometimes it got too repetitive, but I like the vibe and the style.

I wasn't vibing with this at work, but I played it a second time as I headed home. It started raining and was getting cloudy, and because of it, I was vibing with the music. Maybe it had something to do with the mood, how certain music sounds better depending on your environment.

Typisk britisk, ikke helt min kopp te. Grei bakgrunnsstøy, ikke mer.

Second half shines brighter

Had never really listened to LCD Soundsystem so interesting to have the chance. One song - Someone Great - I loved, the rest didn't really do it for me, but I can sort of see the appeal. More accessible than Daft Punk.

i didn’t love this album overall but the last song was super good

I enjoyed this, but it didn't captivate me. I kept finding myself in the other room doing something else by track 6. I'm going to see them live soon. Hopefully I'll stay more focussed on them then.

Some songs are too repetitive I like the last song and the 2nd song

Album 760 of 1089 LCD Soundsystem -Sound of Silver (2007) Rating : 3/ 5 Genre bending. From New Wave to Disco...a little dance-punk...a little electronic. Probably the highest rating I've give to an album that is partially described as electronica. Good lyrics, well produced, good writing. Glad to have ran across this one.

This one is hard to rank. Ive always been on the fence about LCD Soundsystem- they do a lot that I want to enjoy and definitely have a unique spund/style, but I find a lot of their songs to be long & repetitive. Overall- I liked some parts. Probably a 2.5 - 3 / 5

Some songs are longer than necessary, but other than that it was pretty good

I liked this better than I'd anticipated, but it's not really my taste. There are some decent songs on it and a handful I didn't care for at all. I first heard album closer "New York..." last year when English Teacher covered it, and they're not crazy different but I'm content to stick with their version. I also recognized a few times where other bands have been inspired by this and borrowed from it, so clearly it's made an impact that makes it worth checking out. I doubt I'll sit through it again, but not mad this project brought me to it.

It seems like a playlist, didn't find an artistic idea, but a mashup of different band songs in a single album

I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. I was never into his music when it first came out. After reading some reviews before listening, people complained about the same song over and over. I didn't feel that way at all. Us V Them stood out. 3.5/5

Some bangers but a bit samey after a while.

Some interesting songs and beats, but others really don't help. Like "Someone Great" and the New York Song, 3/5

96/1089 - Not horrible but not a fan of the voice.

Great start and ending in the album, just fairly groovy indie music that was a lot of fun. The middle of the album felt fairly repetitive with the first bit, but the album picked up with New York. Get Innocuous was an excellent opening track. Not the greatest fan of his voice tho.

Which genre is this? Am I wrong to ask? First it sounds like the fish song with a weird name but at the end I suddenly get an indie album? It's alright, nevertheless nothing mindblowing idk why it's on this list I reckon there's better out there

Interesting. I've heard LCD Sound System before. A bit trippy here and there. I like it but don't love it at times.

LCD soundsystem sounds to me like if you asked David Byrne to make roses and mimosas. Idk it didn’t tickle my brain as much as I hoped but I did like the album. Favorite tracks - New York I love you, someone great

The album is full of creative grooves and playful production that shows real artistry. However, as the album progresses, some of these grooves overstay their welcome. What begins as fresh and engaging starts to feel repetitive, with a few songs dragging out longer than needed. Still, there’s enough single tracks for me to appreciate.

Meh

Sounds like the guy from cake. Short skirt and long jacket. One good song in the middle there that I hadn’t heard that I really did like, but the rest of it like the cake singer

It was fine.

Not bad! Repetitive, sure, but not unpleasantly so. It's undeniably systemic sound, and I can't explain why it definitely sounds like silver and absolutely not gold.

This was better than expected. It's a 3.5 for me. Worths a second listen if I'm ever in the mood of some semi-funky EM

There's been a handful of albums so far with a similar vibe to this one. I think they're fine in a vacuum, but in real life they just don't really draw out any sort of emotion for me.

Sometimes maybe good sometimes maybe shit

Listened through twice and on second listen id say it was pushing, but just falling short of 4 stars, let's call this one 3.5 stars.

3.75

Grew to enjoy this in some replays , it’s a unique enough sound and the electric works hands out

This was another first for me, as I'd never listened to anything by the LCD Soundsystem prior to this album, but I've been hearing about this artist for years. Initially, I wasn't too sure this was going to be up my alley, however, I found myself warming up to the sound by track 3 (North American Scum), which was definitely a pleasant surprise. As a longtime The 1975 fan, I was also surprised by All My Friends and the similarities to the opening track on BFIAFL, as well as lyrical similarities to their track Sex. Even though I this isn't the type of music I can see myself listening to on a regular basis, I will definitely be revisiting some of these tracks.

2.5 stars. was a bit weird but i liked it

Good, cool drum sound

Should listen again on road trip. Sounds British, made by one guy in a tinfoil hat.

get innocuous- the spelling of that word in obnoxious. like this song. 4 time to get away- 4 north american scum- 🙋. thats me. 3 someone great- 5 all my friends- 4 us v them- 3 or 4 watch the tapes- 3 sound of silver- oh jesus. the instrumental isnt that bad actually. 4 new york, i love you but youre bringing me down- 4

Eh

Production is really nice. Songwriting, vocals, and lyrics are fine. “Get Innocuous!” is too long and annoying. “Time to Get Away” is just too annoying. “North American Scum” is alright, it’s fine, but not for me. I enjoyed “Someone Great” and “All My Friends” was a lot of phun. “Us v Them” is too long and annoying. “Watch the Tapes” and “Sound of Silver” are annoying, if not, forgettable. “New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down” is pretty good. I like that one. 3/5

I want to run fast now

Overall it was okay. New York, I love you was pretty great and I think All My Friends is an all-timer of a song but other than that, they were just some solid dance music

Perfectly listenable, but it becomes repetitive real fast. I’ve no problem with making tracks 7 minutes long, but at least make them interesting.

Got stronger as it went along

start of "someone great" is music i love. the rest so far is close to music i love but i do NOT like this. oh they started singing............ yeah this sucked shit imo - my notes from while it was playing

An interesting album, I liked Time to Get Away and All My Friends the most.

Nothing exciting.

Better than I thought, interesting indie/dance rock hybrid.

I'm not sure how to rate this one. It has alot of the dance and electronic tropes I don't like like the repetition and not having lyrics but this does these things but in a way I don't fond offensive. I'm really really not sure what to do with this. I'm Going to give it a tentative 3. I need to listen to this a bunch more times before I truly know what's up. Maybe it's the best thing I've ever listened to or the worst I'm not sure

I'm afraid I don't see the appeal. Its not bad of course, mildly catchy, driving rhythm, a lot of post-punk or post-grunge elements mixed with dance and electronica - but I think its the latter that I don't like, it's just not for me.

American 2000s rockband. Indy electronica. Enjoyable but also quite repetitive. Want this to be better.

Liked it and then got very bored, but then my attention was captured in the end again. Eh??

Interesante amalgama de estilos. A veces parece Kraftwerk, a veces Talking Heads, a veces IDLES, a veces música disco, pero solo durante un instante; inmediatamente te das cuenta de que es otra cosa más propia ("dance-punk"?). Un álbum que merece estar en la lista por su personalidad. Por otra parte, se me ha hecho algo pesado. No sé exactamente el qué, pero le falta algo para terminar de atraparme; irónicamente, quizá más variedad o unas melodías más sostenidas. Pero en fin, buen álbum.

okay

Hh

Albumi #166, 05.03.2025 LCD Soundsystem on jonkinlainen kombinaatio Kraftwerkia, Ting Tingsia ja Franz Ferdinandia. Mielenkiintoinen kombinaatio, mutta nuo kaikki mainitut on jo nähty. Tietyssä mielentilassa ihan ok meininkiä, mutta jotain omaperäistä puuttuu.

ok I guess

pretty cool

Some really nice layered rhythms and percussion, and some cool baselines. My personal issues is that they are very much on the New York vibe, and I don’t really appreciate Talking Heads or the Strokes, these guys clearly do. So while this is a nice improvement on them, I don’t think I’m every really got to get on board with the David Byrne vocal copying.

Ok low-fi techno

I feel they may be more attention grabbing live than in the studio. They're good, but not quite a 4.

I expected to hate this, and it’s better than that. But it is just so repetitive I can’t say I liked it either. New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down is good though, might get to 3 stars for that

Eh

I feel like every song has this long intro but just as it builds up to almost the hook it ends leaving me unsatisfied.

This album felt like it was three songs. The first seven songs sounded the same to me, and then the last two sounded different enough to differentiate in my head. Maybe it's a part of electronic music where that's normal but I'm not used to it. The last two songs on this album were great and saved this album from being a two. 3/5

Pretty catchy - good background music. At times sounded a bit like The Killers. No complaints on this one, nothing too special, but a solid 3/5.

I enjoyed this album at the time of it's release, but this sounds outdated and meh. Some songs are alright, but I honestly couldn't wait for it to be over. So weird because I used to love this band. Eh, things change.

Very dance-y. I like North American Scum because of the post-punk vibes.

It was definitely good music, but didn't captivate me. Lyrics are incredible. It just didn't tug me heart is all

Bra blandning av olika slags genren, många highlights! Kräver vidare lyssning.

Never listened to LCD Soundsystem before. I figured it would be some type of dance music. Not terribly wrong. Not really my thing. Not bad, not great. I admit about halfway through the album I was ready for it to be over. Seemed a little repetitive. This is not something I think I will be revisiting in the future.

прикольный, немножко соевый дискач в перемешку с рокешником, но очень своеобразное видение звука. мало песен со мной совпадают по настроению, но направление в целом понятно. сведение откровенно слабовато было сделано, но подход к продакшну был интересный с той же духовной точки зрения.

he just repeats things and calls it music. but sometimes thats fine

1. get innocuous!: interesting, kinda trippy at start, a bit long and repetitive, nice percussion, long instrumental 2. time to get away: fun vocals, funky bass, punky, cool song 3. north american scum: nice intro, reminds me of olivia rodrigo for some reason, again great drums and bass, female backing vocals!, punky, cool song 4. someone great: trippy intro, nice melody, repetitive, boring vocals 5. all my friends: keyboard intro, repetitive, boring vocals 6. us V them: relatively quicker intro, female backing vocals, cowbells, chorus?!, i like it but still too long (8 minutes?!) 7. watch the tapes: way shorter, nice vocal overdubs 8. sound of silver: great bass, trancelike interlude, great effects 9. new york i love you but you’re bringing me down: nice vocals and melody, nice piano, dumb lyrics, repetitive vocals, guitar solo?! overall: pros-great production, cool effects and vocals, trancelike dance music, slightly punky, good background music cons-repetitive and long songs, not much vocal melody, repetitive vocals, not much direction rating: 7/10

I didn’t connect with the bulk of the album, but I recognize that All My Friends was a thrilling creation. It made its way onto my favourites playlist.

A handful of really great songs on this. Too many of the non-great tracks are super repetitive, though, which really harms the overall feel of this album. When it's rock I'm super into it, when it's dance / electronic I wish it would end.

rating - 3/5. ??? > ima be so fr the 10000 minute songs r not doing it for me..... and I cheated I skipped a lot through the songs IM SORRY. this was def different from something id normally listen to. lyrics and stuff r cool tho! his voice just kinda annoy me. also idk what he using to make the actual music but its sick af?? I would not listen to this again but it was definitely an experience. NYILYBYBMD why is he annoying asfk IM SORRY I hate it. (also this prob didn't show up on my airbuds cus I listened on my laptop) > thumbs up: north american scum.

75/100 i like the atmosphere, not much else though.

Det lät ju inte alls så tokigt.

Not a masterpiece but still a super fun album. Loved All my Friends and Someone Great

I like some of the ingredients, but the dish is missing something. All of my friends was great though

I forgot how much I liked this album. 3.5

Interesting tunes, will be revisiting.

Not my thing really. Not bad, but not my thing.

Need to give this a few more listens. But it’s starting to grow on me. 3.75

Not always bad. But some of their sounds give my ears pain.

Yeah good like. North American scum. So weird to imagine an American picking up on Brits hating on them. Greatest country in the world? Bring back jingoism. Arm up. God bless America. Yeah right.

"Sound of Silver" by LCD SOUNDSYSTEM is mixed and engineered well, but honestly just feels like a sort of tired throwback to the sounds of Yello, Metropolis Records acts, Dancing Ferret Discs acts,, and bands like Einstruzende Neubaten from 2 decades before them, and even bit like the collage rock style that we used on our first album. I respect what they do, but I'm not convinced I would feel compelled to hear these tracks again. All of the track would have benefited by keeping them instrumental and removing the vocals. I almost enjoyed "Someone Great", but my experience was ruined by a piano line that was echoing the vocal melody being to far forward in the mix.

An okay album.

This ended up being kind of an odd break between the stuff I planned to listen to today — which is to say, Frank Sintra's "feels bad, man" sad albums to try and ignore what was happening today, and then Rage Against The Machine's debut to actively engage with what was happening today. You can see how I was tryna be, right? Y'know? And I coulda stuck to just that, but I didn't see any reason to put today's album off, so I snuck it in and here we are. And what fun, it ended up probably being my least favorite kind of album to get from this list. Yes, it's the unfortunate classic: the "I acknowledge that this is a very good album, even a great album, but ultimately it just really doesn't inspire me to say much about it" kind of album. But maybe not even that; honestly, I felt a little underwhelmed for most of the runtime. And that sucks, 'coz I'm the kinda person who **loves** to rattle off their thoughts about and relations to an album, across maybe hundreds of words. It's kind of my thing, I figure. But when I start making my review about how I can write a good review, well... Like, at this point, I don't think it's a problem with me and my ability to express myself. Lemme put it like this. I saw a review not from this website that described a song from this album as "dance music for grown-ups." And y'know what that description reminds me of, honestly? Grape Nuts. Bran Flakes. All the cereal I see in the aisle and go, "Why should that have to be the cereal I 'graduate' to once I grow up? There are people who really give up Froot Loops and Cap'n Crunch and Nesquik and all that for gawdamn **Grape Nuts**?" Which, I don't think this album is as bland as comparing it to Grape Nuts would imply — I do think it's good, even great music, regardless of how underwhelmed I was by it — but if this is dance music for grown-ups, gimme some damn Froot Loops. It largely just bounced off me, and I don't think it was solely because I was also busy distracting myself doing outfit sketches for an OC. I just didn't really get into it too much until "Us V Them", and by that point, it felt a bit too late. Not even the closer could really save my opinion, and I liked it a **lot** for how it reminded me of Ben Folds. So... Yeah, I'm gonna be the outlier in my group again, I figure. 'Coz while they're probably gonna give this thing 5's, honestly, I'm feeling more like a 3. That's more a reflection of my enjoyment than how I feel about it quality-wise, but ultimately, it still feels like the best one for me to give it. Jus' how it be sometimes. LCD Soundsystem, your album's fine, but that fact's bringing me down.

Starts off eclectic sounding but became repetitive as it went on. I only knew this artist from the one song they made with Idles so my expectations might have been out of whack. Was not bad though.

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More drone than musicality for most of it. But fun.

LCD Soundsystem is a blindspot for me in terms of artists who people I think have good taste like and I’d guess that I’d enjoy as well. I was a little underwhelmed in that sense, but generally would say I did enjoy this and would explore further

Very Killers vibes, had to honestly look up when Hot Fuss came out to make sure there was some distance and was kind of surprised to see it. Very much a retread but the music is pretty good.

A few good songs.

This albums puts you in a great flow. But can stress you out and overwhelm with so much noise. Some greats songs and some mediocre songs

Collaborative and creative. To me it sounds like a Talking Heads mixed with Kraftwerk album, especially noticeable on Us V Them

LCD Soundsystem is clearly influenced by David Bowie, Brian Eno, Talking Heads and Kraftwerk. Kind of thrown in a blender and strained through a 2007 sieve, so not as good as the originals. That said, I generally found something to like in listening to each song. Not amazing, but better than most electronic/dance/rock(?) from this time period. 2.5⭐️ (but I’ll round up)

Joa ganz nett wa Besser könnts aber auch sein Intro ist sehr toll

Meh

This Is Happening is way better. Lowkey a pretty overrated music nerd album

Some absolute crap and some moments of brilliance. On the whole, it averages out.

It was alright, but nothing special.

"Hey, I never asked you. Do you like guacamole?"

First listen. Quite good, but it became kind of one dimensional and boring over time.

I wish we had left this sound in the 80s. It’s okay. Some of the quirky lyrics made me giggle.

"all my friends" is fantastic. the rest feels like a joke i'm not in on

Listened twice. It’s alright I enjoyed it. Last track probably my favorite

Good and easy listening

3.5 * It's a good danceable rock album

I like this better than the other album by them we had before. Songs are long and winding but I enjoy the base ideas quite a lot. Good background music although I probably won't revisit very much. Highlights: All Your Friends, Sound of Silver, New York I love you. 3.5

I liked it, but a couple of songs really dragged on for too long in my opinion.

This was different. I didn't hate it, but I wasn't sure what to expect. From what I had read, this band's sound is very much a hybrid mixture of The Killers + The Strokes + a pinch of Devo + a dash of Daft Punk. Enjoyable for what it was, but I don't see myself going back to it anytime in not too distant future.

It started off as some sort of electronica, but then pivoted into an eclectic alt-rock sampler. It was OK, but it's not joining my library anytime soon.

Ok this one made me kind of get the LCD hype. NA Scum and NYILY were great, I didn’t realize they were LCD. A pleasant vibe to look at a nice blue sky to.

What a bop

Dance rock has never been my thing so was interested to give this a listen. I get DJ Shadow vibes (whom I am a fan) from the first track Get Innocuous!. This is electronic rock, well not my thing in general I can appreciate it. Stand out tracks: - Get Innocuous! - North American Scum - All my friends - Sound of Silver - New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down

Already loved some songs from this album but never listened to it in full. I think LCD Soundsytem really typified the beginning of the indie sleaze movement which lasted for the next decade, of which the genre is very close to my heart. Some of the songs are really repetitive musically which I understand is the style but I get bored of easily. The lyricist is amazing however and the end of the album is a highlight with New York I Love You.

it was alright but the vocals didn’t stand out to me, lots of cool sounds though

I have definitely heard of LCD Soundsystem before, and I'm sure I've heard some of their music at some point but somehow none of this was familiar. It was good, it didn't blow me away but I mostly enjoyed it. Definitely better with headphones.

I enjoyed listening to this album, hope to remember to come back to it.

Was not a big fan of the beginning but it got better. I enjoyed Someone Great, All My Friends and Us vs Them. Singers voice reminded me of others so it wasn't super unique.

It's fun. It's dancey and has good energy. I had fun playing bass to it. Not hearing anything especially great or creative about the songwriting. Cool beats. I like the North American Scum song.

5.5/10

I love Daft Punk is playing in my house, my house. But this falls short of that hype. Still ok to listen to at the gym. I'm too old for all night raves, but the first track would be great for that.

Too brassy for my brain in one sitting and the “vocals” suck. Other than that it was kinda cool. Hanging middle of the road on this one. It sounds a little dated for a 2007 release.

Achei mais animado q o outro...até q gostei desse

I liked this and I listened to it twice through. It was a 3 after the first listen and I thought it might be a 4 if I listened to it again. But still a 3. Easy funky rock/dance vibes. Very LCD Soundsystem, so it tracks. Sound of Silver was the one that stuck out the most to me as good background music.

The voice of me off but some the instruments parts were nice.

A little too sonically busy for me. Many of the tracks sounded similar.

The high of "Someone Great" followed by "All My Friends" is incredibly high. I appreciate James and his dance punk aesthetic, these more chill momements with brilliant lyricism, and just a killer vocal performance speak to me and make the biggest impression. While most of the album was dancier, I found myself losing interest at times. The second half of "The Sound of Silver" definitely reinvigorated the album. The long groove is moody, driving, and and compels you to move. "New York, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down" took me out entirely. Not a bad song, and seemingly a deeply personal one, but this is not what I wanted from LCD Soundsystem.

Fun upbeat songs. Prob a one listen for me

I liked this album when it came out-fairly upbeat, nice to drive to--though the title track ("Sound of Silver") is actually pretty boring (even if its one lyric is pretty funny). I'm still listening to many of the songs on this album to this day--though I don't think it's by any means a mind-blowing album. It feels like a good spring-to-summer transition album.

Meh

3.5★. A bit of a hit-and-miss. The good stuff (Get Innocuous, Someone Great, All My Friends, New York, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down) is great but I don’t care much for the rest.

Not my favorite style of music but a fun stretch for me. Overall takeaway: vocals are kinda lame, but the instrumentals are fun

Cool album. Zou het niet meteen 4 sterren geven. All my friends is echt wel een banger. Ook een aantal nieuwe nummers hierop leren kennen. 3.4

1. To string you along with pretense 2. For you I caught a lot of static 3. We are North American scum 4. There shouldn’t be this radio silence 5. We set controls for the heart of the sun 6. Cloud, block out the sun over me 7. Avoid all the plans ‘cause we’re making our day jobs into a steady career 8. Sound of silver talk to me 9. But you’re still the one pool where I’d happily drown

A little too much filler, but the songs that hit hoo boy

Really interesting sound! Not my personal bag but this is very unique.

Finally, a song by this band that I recognized. Some of it is nice, a lot of it makes me want to listen to other music I like better. The last song made me want to turn it off. 2.5

I vibed with this one way more than I did the first one.

They overstayed their welcome on most songs. However, I did think they had a cool sound.

++: North American Scum, Sound of Silver, New York, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down + Get Innocuous!, Us v Them, Watch the Tapes +-: Time to Get Away, Someone Great, All My Friends 6,3/10

Good, couple proper musically tracks like the album closer. Sometimes feels a little try hard, but that might just be cause there’s no singing.

Highlights: "All My Friends," "Us Vs Them," "North American Scum," ...

Great album. Three stars as a whole because I'm not sure at this point if I would revisit as a whole (maybe that will change). Last track is lovely but unfortunately the colossal weight of emotion in All My Friends seems much like a imploding star, crush and devour all tracks around it's 5 star worthy artistry. As a middle aged man listening to another middle aged man singing about those early 2000s it strikes like a two chorded fork through the heart (even though weirdly I missed this track at the time)

I don't get it

Get Innocuous! 2.8 Time to Get Away 3 North American Scum 3 Someone Great 2.7 All My Friends 2.5 Us v Them 2.4 Watch the Tapes 2.4 Sound of Silver 2 New York, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down 3 Score: 2.644444444

I can’t explain it any further but this album just sounds like 2007. It’s not a good or bad thing, it’s just a thing. I enjoyed the album though!

Last time I got an LCD album, I hated it. This time, not too bad. Though too repetitive at times. Not terrible though

I may have been wrong about LCD Soundsystem in college after hearing "Dance Yourself Clean" - I did enjoy this album albeit slightly repetitive on some tracks. The grooves and unpolished vocals give it a nice indie feel.

This sounds like that band that met in art school and have been friends ever since. They make every decision together, straight down to what toilet paper to buy. They're the group that you heard and thought they're good because they have that one good song you like and then made an entire album of the same song. 3/5.

Better than most electronic albums from the era. Mostly because the songs go somewhere. It's also not as long as most, which serves this record well.

Wasn’t sure about it, but listened all the way through and it was surprisingly ok.

Better than expected for electroniia. Notables NA Scum Sound of Silver New York

That was fine? I listened on Friday and am writing this on Monday. I remember it being solid but don't remember anything standing out. Album cover: B. Sure.

I have not loved the first few songs. "North American Scum" is the first good one. "All My Friends" is also good. They really sound like The Killers on this track. All the next tracks didn't do it for me, but then "New York I Love You..." was pretty good. I've dabbled with LCD Soundsystem a little in the past and it's never clicked. They don't quite hold the same status as Radiohead, but they're another one of those bands everyone says they love. This album was a little boring. The interesting elements of it don't feel like they're executed that well. It all feels a little middle of the road and bland. I didn't dislike it and a few of the songs were good. 6/10

So many folks whose taste I respect rate this highly. I can sing and dance along and all but I think I missed whatever age window I needed to catch this in. Listened multiple times to try to make it hit harder. Did he or jack white start doing this weird singing first. Better call the po-LEEEEECE!

Favourite track: Get Innocuous!

I never really “got” LCD Soundsystem. I like dance, I like this era of indie rock, I like punk. I get what they’re doing, and I even really like most of their singles, and maybe even a song or two from each album. When Lil B sang about hipster girls shaking their ass, I was one of those girls he was talking about it, and at most of those parties, I was shaking ass to LCD Soundsystem. But left to my own devices, I rarely if ever would choose to listen to LCD Soundsystem, especially a full album back-to-front. There’s just something about it where the parts are greater than the sum. I like the genres they’re trying to combine, but I don’t like the combination; I like a song or two on a party playlist, but the albums lack momentum or gravity. Which is strange, because what Sound of Silver does have is variety — normally the lifeblood behind momentum and gravity! Maybe it’s the track length, which implies a dance beat crescendo that LCD can never really build. Maybe it’s the self-seriousness of the lyricism, which all have the depth of a 2000s indie film about the bridge and the tunnel. Maybe, just maybe, I just find LCD to be too pretentious, with too much of a “look what we can do by blending genres you wouldn’t expect a couple Williamsburg boiz to be interested in blending!” And maybe, just maybe, that’s a bit too far past the line for me to sit through an hour’s worth of material without rolling my eyes. This is a very long way to say that LCD Soundsystem aren’t really for me, unless it’s in small bits. While I get how and why someone could love Sound of Silver, and I can respect it and might’ve felt differently with modest tweaks, this is the quintessential example of a Greatest Hits Band™️ to me. You can like Sound of Silver, but I’ll just take the moments that don’t overstay their welcome with a 10-minute runtime and move those to a playlist that people can actually dance to at an actual party. And maybe even “New York I Love You,” whose sentiment may be overdramatized and dismissive of this gorgeous city, but also (and I say this from experience) still at least speaks to the Youngest Millennials in Brooklyn™️.

I have a love hate relationship to LCD Soundsystem. At times I find his music great, at others I find it pretentious and formulaic. This album is probably the LCD Soundsystem album with the least songs i know (of the hit albums). I found it quite good. Something with the style hasn't aged particularly well to me and the sound that sounded so fresh around the late 00s now sounds a bit boring instead. Still there is a certain groove to many of the songs that are fun in their scaled back way. Special shout out to "North American Scum" and "All my Friends". It is at its best a cool blend of indie electronic and a good window to what the indies listened to around the late 00s early 10s. Strong 3.

Después de varios intentos de que me gustara algo de este grupo, creo que este es su disco más interesante por ahora. Me he guardado: Someone great, All my friends y New York, I love you but ...

Enjoyable

Geht so

- It was fine! Good first song - I was expecting more variation after that, and then there wasn't really - These songs are probably better if you listen to them individually rather than sitting down and listening to the whole album at once... they blend together after a while unfortunately :( - However! "Samey" doesn't inherently mean "bad" (at least not to me, anyways). Pretty alright!

Repetitive dance/electronic. Pretty fun rhythm and not immediately repulsive. Might get old as album goes on, but first track feels exciting and different. Discordant classical is always a fast-track to my pretentious heart. VOCALS??? No deal. It’s actually pretty rad. A little too disco-y. “More more more” “type shit” as the youth say while not understanding that deep cut disco reference. Hell, I barely understand it. New song. Thankfully. Hated that rhythm. Fun start to this bad boy. Like the song title. A little more subversive. Less disco, more modern. This is pretty good. Lyrics are fairly lame. Probably don’t understand the cool mid-2000s disco white guy thematic overtones. My loss right? Kind of flip flopping on the lyrics. Good song. Long, but good. MELODRAMA?? Not in my influential album list. The Smiths meets Owl City. Vocal melody kinda bad, but also hypnotic and I was bobbing my head to this. I might just be excited about the prospect of listening to new music, but this album has sort of flown by. Relistenable? Parts. That was kinda nice. Edit. It’s bad. Annoying Billy Joel on psychedelics feature. Ooh no. Kings of Leon. This song is stinky. So lame. Yeah this was a record scratch halting, garbage song. Sad music for people who’ve never been sad. College breakup song. Thumbs down. It removed my thoughts on the next track. Bad until near the end. I can’t bring to mind my effervescent prose and devastating critiques at this juncture. Next song rips. Watch the tapes? I will now. More white stripes/Hives than Coldplay/Fray. Sick. Don’t tease me with a Warren Zevon wolf howl. Werewolves of (trendy New York neighbourhood). What a zinger. That’s the type of “heat” missed when this puppy doesn’t save. Nostalgia takedowns?? Hubba hubba. WHOA, ALBUM NAME MENTIONED. Bass line = NICE. Record pops, weird ambient break which is a plus. Another good song. Picking up near the end. Although it keeps on going. And I’m happy about it. SpongeBob beat introduced to rapturous applause. Oh no. Ballad album closer. Ironic? Almost assuredly yes. Tribute to New York somehow though. Why do people who live in urban areas always feel the need to talk about it constantly? Hold the phone. Big takedown. Why do I like this? What has happened to me? This sounds like Weezer slightly. I hope no music nerds see this. I can only imagine them blowing air out of their one unclogged nostril and whirling their Cheeto dust around the office. Humiliating HIGHLIGHTS: North American Scum, Watch the Tapes, Sound of Silver, New York, I love you but you’re bringing me down 3.5

It was ok. Shocking there was a song I know. Don’t think I would go back to it.

So fun. Maybe not LCD's very best album, but their talent is showing huge on this one.

This is a big vibes album. You don't pay much attention to the lyrics but there is a general coming of age, summer, exploring vibe to the songs. Then it just gets very repetitive.

New York i love you but you're bringing me down and american scum are really good but we didn't vibe so much with the rest.

Surprisingly solid album. Great closer too.

Lacking in emotional content, or maybe I'm just a jaded aging hipster. More Talking Heads and even shadows of Gang of Four here and there: "Sound of Silver" more like "Sound of Anthrax - but I forgot the words so I improvised something really silly." A lot of misplaced nostalgia about growing up, wondering if this is purposeful or spontaneously heartfelt? Intuitively feels like the latter at first listen. Some mid-oughts alternative rock that sounds like the Killers, Phoenix, Franz Ferdinand, etc. etc. etc. Which *I* don't love but appeals to a lot of folks. That said, this album is kind of interesting. More so when the singer is just chatting over the bleep blorp stuff, it's painfully obvious when he's out of his league - not everyone can be David Bowie, nor should everyone make the attempt to be. "Be yourself" is always the stylistic choice that is most satisfying. Works well on songs like "Us v Them" and "North American Scum." Not convinced it is worth all the accolades, though. Maybe it's the hipster music trick of appealing to the 30-something east-coast white boy English majors who write for Bitchfork, Rolling Stone, et. al. rather than doing anything risky.

I like it, but not love it

LCD Soundsystem is the Wilco of electronic music. Meaning everyone has that uncle that's way too into them.

For a band I’ve never heard of, I know a lot of their music from video games and movies

Meh, 3 stars

Quirky but funky

It's pretty OK. It sounds like mid-2000s rock (ala The Strokes, Interpol, The Killers, et al) but with a slightly more upbeat, slightly electro-pop foundation.

It combines all of my least favorite things about indie/alt music from the late 2000s: overreliance on poorly produced electronic elements, bad vocals, and a faux self-effacing pretentiousness. Last track is good tho

There are some good hooks here and there, and “All My Friends” is a great jam, but overall it’s just not really my thing and doesn’t change my view of this band as overrated.

This didn't work for me. The electronic beats were almost nauseating--the music needed to be thicker, or have a fuller sound or something, and I thought the lyrics were often not that interesting. I love the name of the band and the name of the songs, but the repetition / electronic dance aspect was kind of boring to me.

I’m familiar with this group, but not this record. This has some interesting sounds on it and I’d like to revisit it to fully immerse myself in it as I think it is a very good album; my close friend swears by it. Some unique electronic compositions combined with unique vocals. I’m still left a bit unsure about it, but I enjoyed it.