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December 6, 2006

Premature Evaluation: LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver

James Murphy's been a busy boy; this year he gave us the surprisingly awesome (though impossible to actually enjoy in one run -- 45 minutes?!) Nike collaboration 45:33, which we're seeing pop up on year end lists from bloggers and Kevin Barnes alike (#1!). In addition to that fitness jam, James has (presumably) completed work on the forthcoming LCD Soundsystem release Sound Of Silver. We've only had a few spins, but we love.

We've heard friends hope for another release of 45:33 down the road, with the passages isolated into individual tracks for easy consumption (and for lazy asses like us who couldn't run for 45 minutes if our laptops depended on it), but that's been Murphy's plan all along; the "this is perfect for driving but okay I'll run to it" passage of the Nike record that beings at 9:33 is given some vocals -- and the title "Someone Great." It deserves it!

Album opener "Get Innocuous," along with the title track, are tailor-made hipster club jams, even on first listen. And yes, the cowbell dance-punk of "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House" takes a bow in "Us v Them." Some songs streaming here. Get innocuous, and get involved.

Sound Of Silver is out 3/20/07 on DFA Records

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Best album of 06, I mean 07

Posted by: Supafly at 12/06/06 9:40 AM | Reply
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And so it begins...the now time-honoured tradition of: POST IT-REQUEST REMOVAL-POST ANOTHER TRACK-REMOVE IT-POST IT-REMOV-AHHHHHH, FUCK IT--YOU WIN AGAIN INTERNETS!!... Watch it (yet again) unfold--and continue through to next March when the album is slated for release. Good tracks though.

Posted by: Jude at 12/06/06 11:01 AM | Reply
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While I didn't really like the title track, the rest of the album makes me very happy. Understandably, the copy I have sounds kinda unmastered, but I love it.

Posted by: adrian at 12/06/06 11:27 AM | Reply
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Get Innocuous is currently melting my brain... I hope the rest of the album is this good.

Posted by: fred at 12/06/06 2:30 PM | Reply
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From Fluxblog:
"The record is capped with a cute Murphy-turn in the album closer "New York I Love You," a little bit of Ben Folds-y piano lament." This is ironic because Murphy is a guy who came to fame on the strength of a song that expressed a freakishly huge frame of reference, and now he's getting reviewed by a generation of people for whom piano balladry = BEN FOLDS and disco = JAMES MURPHY.

Posted by: Charles at 12/06/06 2:53 PM | Reply
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Although I doubt anything else he releases will top Losing My Edge, I'm still loving this album more than the first disc of his self-titled.

Posted by: Allen at 12/06/06 3:58 PM | Reply
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I'm so jealous. I need that album right now.

Posted by: Eduardo at 12/06/06 5:32 PM | Reply
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Scott, I'm a little concerned about your physical fitness: "(though impossible to actually enjoy in one run -- 45 minutes?!)."

45 minutes is only about 4-5 miles even for a slowpoke like me... I would say 45-60 mins is a pretty typical length workout for the average person...

Posted by: G at 12/06/06 7:20 PM | Reply
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I've got this back on rotation now, and I think it's up there for album of the 2000s so far. Such a great collection of songs, Murphy on top of his game.

Posted by: Dave at 06/04/08 1:04 PM | Reply
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