Sound Of Silver

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When it was first released, it was an instant classic. Critically acclaimed, loved and highly praised and you can definitely see why. The thing with Sound of Silver is that it manages to walk on familiar territory with such confidence. It's often reminiscent of artists that came before them - but they put a new, fresh, exciting slant on it and they manage to add their own personality and distinctive style to it. As you listen to it, you hear Bowie, you hear Eno, you hear Kraftwerk. You can hear a whole host of influences but unlike a lot of artists, LCD Soundsystem aren't simply plagiarising these artists and that's why it was such a critically acclaimed and widely respected album where its legacy will only grow with time. There's a fine line between regurgitating your influences to the point where it feels trite, derivative and dated and actually doing something interesting with those influences while putting a modern slant on it. LCD Soundsystem are always on the right side of that line. This is them at their best.

Rewind: Records of the Year Top Ten". The Wire. No.287. London. January 2008. p.37 – via Exact Editions. (subscription required) Robert Dimery; Michael Lydon (2014). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN 978-0-7893-2074-2. a b Lynskey, Dorian (March 8, 2007). "LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver". The Guardian . Retrieved August 30, 2011. sounds like silver: lcd soundsystem remixed". Archived from the original on March 16, 2007 . Retrieved March 12, 2007. Wenner, Jann S., ed. (2012). Rolling Stone - Special Collectors Issue - The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. USA: Wenner Media Specials. ISBN 978-7-09-893419-6According to a number of music publications Sound Of Silver by LCD Soundsystem is the best album released in 2007. Normally heading "best of" polls is like the kiss of death for an album. It's as if the public take exception to being told what they should be listening to and look elsewhere just to be contrary. I know because I'm one of those people! But sometimes, just sometimes, the so-called cognoscenti prove they have a smidgeon of knowledge and taste - I suppose if you fire enough bullets you're bound to hit something eventually. In December 2007, Sound of Silver was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album, eventually losing to We Are the Night by The Chemical Brothers. [34] The album was also nominated for the 2007 Shortlist Prize, where it lost out to The Reminder by Feist. Officially, the Sound of Silver recording band comprised Murphy plus DFA associates Pat Mahoney, Tyler Pope and Nancy Whang. What this meant in practice, however, is that the rest of the band would generally sketch out their parts, and then Murphy would re-record his own takes. “I don’t have to sit there and pretend it’s a democracy and really be trying to control everything,” he told The Village Voice. “I feel like bands’ ideas become really mushy. They get too democratic; they get watered down.” Murphy just knew exactly how he liked things to sound: “Every person who plays their instrument is better at their instrument than I am,” he told The New Yorker. “I happen to be better at being me. So I can take your instrument and play what I want better than you can.” LCD Soundsystem were a band fronted by singer/songwriter, producer and mastermind James Murphy and Sound Of Silver is by far their best album. It feels kind of weird describing them in the past tense, saying they were a band instead of are a band. It's also kind of a shame, since everything they did was pretty fantastic. But them putting out their absolute best and then breaking up is much preferable than them carrying on too long, releasing inconsistent albums and then creating uninspired drivel before finally fading into irrelevance and mediocrity. It's much better that they have such a fantastic discography. But to be honest, nothing can equal their 2007 magnum opus. Christgau, Robert. "LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver". RobertChristgau.com . Retrieved August 30, 2011.

British album certifications – LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved August 16, 2017. Matos, Michaelangelo (March 27, 2007). "LCD Soundsystem: Sound Of Silver". The A.V. Club . Retrieved August 30, 2011.Goldner, Sam. "How LCD Soundsystem's Sound of Silver Became the Gold Standard for Modern Dance-Punk". The-dowsers.com. Archived from the original on October 18, 2021 . Retrieved August 15, 2017. In 2019, The Guardian ranked the album at number 5 on its list of 'The 100 best albums of the 21st century'. [51] In 2012, Rolling Stone ranked the album at number 395 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. [48] The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. [49] [50]

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Fast forward to 2008, and LCD Soundsystem's Sound of Silver. I saw the band with Arcade Fire at Shoreline Amphitheater last fall. They were pretty good, so I bought this album based on that. Honestly, I listened to it a couple of times and then put it on the shelf. Nothing really grabbed my ear. Everything about it is just so on the money. From the fantastic songwriting, to the immaculate instrumentation, to the fantastic production, even falsetto-heavy vocals are great which I think is an aspect of James Murphy's music he's had to work on. But I'm just guessing there. Except for the lyrics, the vocals are the weakest aspect of the album but they're still so strong. The lyrics aren't really the main focus of the album, they aren't why you listen to the album or the band. I read that earlier instrumental compositions of some bits that featured on the release 45:33 were re-worked and the lyrics were added to bits of it to create proper songs. Everything about it is just right. I was surprised just how many musical ideas came together and how varied the instrumentation was, you have vocals, synthesizers, percussion, drums, piano, bass, programming, guitar, drums, keyboards, bass, violin and they all come together so brilliantly. Sounds of Silver is not an over-hyped flavour of the month release feted by the NME (I've came to terms years ago with the fact that NME knows ditto about half-decent music), no it's an album that mature music fans have hailed as a modern classic since its release and I still don't get it. Sounds of Silver boasts a clutch of notable tunes regardless of the overall strength of the album, the strongest being "North American Scum" and "All My Friends". It's a shame then that the album as a whole just doesn't connect with me, because this is by no means a bad album. a b Harris, Sophie (March 12, 2017). "LCD Soundsystem's 'Sound of Silver': 10 Things You Didn't Know". Rolling Stone . Retrieved March 20, 2023.

By the end of 2007, it was ranked by Metacritic as the tenth best-reviewed album of the year. [31] Commercial [ edit ] There is no way that I should like this but I bought their self-titled debut on the strength of public opinion and just simply fell in love with the damned thing - so there was never any doubt that I would buy Sound Of Silver. I say "their" but in reality LCD Soundsystem is the brainchild of one James Murphy. This guy must be a bigger music geek than everyone on RYM put together. He takes elements of every conceivable musical form and mixes them together like a maniacal DJ. Everything comes out of the mix with a heavy dance beat but there are so many other things going on the result transcends the term dance music. Every time I listen to the album I get something new from it. It's like looking through an enormous kaleidoscope and marvelling at the endless variegated shapes and patterns it throws up. Molanphy, Chris (January 22, 2016). "Can LCD Soundsystem Finally Fulfill James Murphy's Dream of a Number One Album?". Pitchfork . Retrieved October 19, 2017. Little, Michael (July 17, 2015). "Graded on a Curve: LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver". The Vinyl District . Retrieved August 15, 2017. Longplay-Chartverfolgung at Musicline" (in German). Musicline.de. Phononet GmbH. Retrieved July 6, 2015.

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a b Pytlik, Mark (March 20, 2007). "LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on March 30, 2023 . Retrieved June 6, 2023. Dutchcharts.nl – LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved July 6, 2015. LCD Soundsystem’s Sound of Silver—the only electronica LP you need ever own! You can forget about all the rest of them—they blow! It’s like the Beatles, and all those bozos buying all their LPs when the only one that conceivably matters is The White Album. The same goes for 2007’s Sound of Silver, so get rid of all your other dance-punk LPs. Just toss them in the trash; they’re nothing but rubbish cluttering your bedroom! If you like The Sound of Vinyl, you might find our voucher codes for entertainment. FAQs for The Sound of Vinyl Discount What is The Sound of Vinyl discount?