SimonWaldman.net

Now, I loved James Murphy’s debut as LCD Soundsystem last year [Amazon], but the new album, Sound of Silver is, well, as good a all the reviews say it is .

It’s perfect fun for grown ups who like their dance music with an indie twist. Actually, that was true of his last outing - but with this one it’s just that little bit easier on the ear (because we’re getting older) with a few more disco-y bits and barely a bleep or squelch out of place. All in all utterly fab. Buy it now.

Oh, and If you want to know what it’s like - can I recommend you read the quite fantastic real-time review from GreenPeaness. Quite the best bit of music writing I’ve read all week. From his take on track five, All My Friends

01:07 - Yeah, add some disco hi-hattery to the mix. I guarantee you that at least four of my friends will be telling me that they liked the one that sounded like the Charlie Brown theme song the best off this album. Guarantee.
01:51 - OKAY, WE HAVE A SERIOUS WINNER HERE.
02:26 - Jesus, those disco drums are driving me berzerk in the best possible way. Where the fuck was this song last time out?
03:39 - Have I mentioned how well this is layered? There’s a whole world of stuff going on underneath that rolling piano - bass, synths, all sorts of shit - and it’s just fighting to break through to the surface. As it should be.

And his take on the title track

00:52 - Okay jesus is that ever a bassline. I’d been wondering when this album was going to get sinister; who’d have guessed it’d turn out to happen during the song where he keeps comparing people to teenagers?
01:39 - I’m always totally enthralled intellectually (if not necessarily physically) by the tracks where James Murphy just makes straight-ahead dance music, mostly because of his quote about how he used to be a straight-up Rokk Dewd until he started taking fistfuls of ecstasy. Thanks to my friends, I would estimate that %95 of the ecstasy experiences I ever had came while I was listening to the Cure and Outfield and 311 (no joke), so it’s just interesting to hear what the soundtrack to my life might sound like if my friends back home didn’t, y’know, suck so bad.
02:57 - I have no idea precisely which synth it is that’s percolating away right now but I LUV IT.