As 'Record of the Year' once again rears its ugly head, LCD Soundsystem’s Sound Of Silver will no doubt be breaching the upper echelons of many a sweaty hack’s hitlist – just not this one’s. Yeah, it made all the right moves, shuffling and jittering to a gallivanting sprawl of beats and bleeps, but it never quite pulled you tooth-first onto the dancefloor with the incessant sleaze-driven dementia of !!!’s Myth Takes, nor did it set brain cells ablaze to the burning electro-gibbering that emitted from Battles’ searing, chromosome corroding Mirrored. Instead it seemed, well, a bit bland; almost feeble in comparison.
Yet, new single ’Someone Great' is undoubtedly the record’s soaring highpoint. A fluid, neck-hair quivering exchange of downtrodden rhythm and glistening synths led by James Murphy’s warm monotonic croon, the track's emotive, minimalist flickering conjures up images of David Byrne cavorting with The Human League at an Orange Juice appreciation convention. Etched in brooding disillusionment, it’s a robotically crafted chasm of deep-rooted despondency that tingles heartstrings whilst clinging longingly to the unlikely prospect of a dead lover’s return. And perhaps most impressively, ‘Someone Great’ is four minutes of such resplendent aural mastery it persuades us doubters to dust down Sound Of Silver and give LCD Soundsytem one final fling at redemption.
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Yes it's great.
No it's not the best on the LP - see All My Friends.
LCD is better than Myth Takes and the Battles LP.
Controversial? No.
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I'd agree
but I don't like Battles.
Somehow I can't see this getting as many comments as the 'All My Friends' review
Noooooo...Battles >!!! > LCD
but this is nae half bad.
i need to be more controversial eh? bx
Battles > LCD > !!!
Easy, now.
I'm still trying to work out
if Battles are an elaborate joke.
Let's up the ante.
LCD Soudsystem > !!! > Holy Fuck > Battles
this is way better than All My Friends
and Sound of Silver is way better than the review makes out (although !!! does have more in the sleaze groove category, but far less in the lyrical department). Bland? Feeble? No fucking way
better than an 8 as well - i wouldn't see a 10/10 as being particularly overgenerous
^I'm with you 10/10
Wouldn't say it's 'way' better than All my friends, but I think it is the best song on probably the best album of the year. Certainly beats Battles and !!!, even though they are pretty good themselves. This song just works perfectly.
Re the Battles/LCD/!!! thing
The Knife are twice all those bands put together.
This song is dull as fuck. All it succeeded in doing was make me long for Blue Monday. 5/10
tut tut
and i used to respect you..
song of the year hands down
though they've sped it up for the single, right?
I
was just thinking they've sped it up, i prefer the album version. Mirrored = Sound of Silver imo (simply because they both are near perfect except for one throw away track each-rainbow and sound of silver- plus i really don't get !!!).