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Jonze, Tim (March 9, 2007). "LCD Soundsystem: Sound Of Silver". NME. Archived from the original on March 22, 2007 . Retrieved March 20, 2007. 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. 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. sounds like silver: lcd soundsystem remixed". Archived from the original on March 16, 2007 . Retrieved March 12, 2007.

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. I'm in the middle of converting my Eurythmics records to digital. The good records I convert to flac and mp3, the lesser albums only go to mp3. I love the lossless flac, but iPods don't support it without tinkering and I'm wary of messing with fascist Apple crapola hardware. Obviously, I'll be converting my Eurythmics records to both. 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. According 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. Rewind: Records of the Year Top Ten". The Wire. No.287. London. January 2008. p.37 – via Exact Editions. (subscription required)

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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] Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominations List". Grammy.com. Archived from the original on December 8, 2007 . Retrieved December 8, 2007. Mulvey, John (March 6, 2007). "LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver". Uncut. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 . Retrieved October 17, 2015.

Metacritic: Best Albums of 2007". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on January 2, 2008 . Retrieved July 31, 2015. Christgau, Robert. "LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver". RobertChristgau.com . Retrieved August 30, 2011.

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a b Carroll, Jim (March 9, 2007). "CD of the Week: LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver". The Irish Times . Retrieved August 15, 2017. 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.

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. 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. 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. Josh Tyrangiel (December 9, 2007). "Top 10 Songs - Top 10 Everything of 2007". Archived from the original on March 28, 2010 . Retrieved November 26, 2011.Kosik, John (March 31, 2017). "LCD Soundsystem's dance-punk groove remains tight on "Sound of Silver" ". The Seattle Times . Retrieved August 15, 2017. 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! Wenner, Jann S., ed. (2012). Rolling Stone - Special Collectors Issue - The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. USA: Wenner Media Specials. ISBN 978-7-09-893419-6 Murphy followed Sound of Silver with 2010’s This is Happeningand ended the band a year later with a four-hour-long farewell show at MSG. He produced Arcade Fire’s Reflektor album, scored two Noah Baumbach films, opened a restaurant and wine bar in Williamsburg, and launched his own coffee brand. Finally, in 2016, Murphy reconvened LCD Soundsystem, with a new album due this year.

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