Sound of Silver

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Sound of Silver
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver.jpg
Studio album by LCD Soundsystem
Released 12 March 2007 (2007-03-12)
Recorded 2006
Studio Long View Farm
(North Brookfield, Massachusetts)
DFA Studios
(New York, New York)
Genre
Length 55:55
Label
Producer The DFA
LCD Soundsystem chronology
45:33
(2006)45:332006		 Sound of Silver
(2007)		 A Bunch of Stuff
(2007)A Bunch of Stuff2007
Singles from Sound of Silver
  1. "North American Scum"
    Released: February 26, 2007
  2. "All My Friends"
    Released: May 28, 2007
  3. "Someone Great"
    Released: October 22, 2007
  4. "Time to Get Away"
    Released: 2008

Sound of Silver is the second studio album by American dance-punk act LCD Soundsystem. The album was released in the United Kingdom on March 12, 2007 under Capitol Records and in the United States on March 20, 2007 under DFA Records. Sound of Silver was produced by the DFA and recorded during 2006 at Long View Farm in North Brookfield, Massachusetts and DFA Studios in New York, New York.

Upon release, Sound of Silver received acclaim from music critics, and it was later nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards.

History

Songs in the Sound of Silver, notably "Someone Great," feature parts of the 2006 LCD Soundsystem release 45:33.

For several weeks before and after the album's release the entire album was available for streaming on the band's MySpace page. The video for the track "North American Scum" was also posted to the band's MySpace on February 8, 2007.

On March 12, 2007, to coincide with its official UK release, an underground remix version of the album was released online in aid of charity.[1]

The album reached number 28 in the UK charts. James Murphy stated that he would like the album to be in the Top 40 on the U.S. Billboard Charts. It debuted on the Billboard 200 at number 46.[2]

The album is dedicated to "the memory of Dr. George Kamen (1942-2006), one of the great minds of his or any generation."[3] The Bulgarian-born doctor was a pioneer of group therapy and had opened a practice in New York.

"Get Innocuous" is featured in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV on the in-game radio station Radio Broker and "Us v Them" is featured in Burnout Dominator and Burnout Paradise.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 86/100[4]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4.5/5 stars[5]
Christgau's Consumer Guide (2-star Honorable Mention)[6]
Entertainment Weekly A–[7]
The Guardian 5/5 stars[8]
Los Angeles Times 4/4 stars[9]
NME 8/10[10]
Pitchfork Media 9.2/10[11]
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars[12]
Spin 4.5/5 stars[13]
Uncut 4/5 stars[14]

Sound of Silver received widespread critical acclaim.[4] The Guardian gave the album a 5-star review,[8] while music website Pitchfork Media gave the album a score of 9.2/10.[11] By the end of 2007, it was ranked by Metacritic as the tenth best-reviewed album of the year.[15]

Accolades

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.[16] The album was also nominated for the 2007 Shortlist Prize, where it lost out to The Reminder by Feist.

It was also named album of the year by The Guardian,[17] Uncut[18] and Drowned in Sound.[19] Pitchfork Media named two of the album's tracks ("Someone Great" and "All My Friends") in the top ten tracks of 2007[20] and the album itself was named the second best album of 2007.[21] Entertainment Weekly and Rolling Stone[22] both ranked it as the 7th best album of 2007.[23] In 2008 Entertainment Weekly ranked it as one of the top 50 albums of the last 25 years. In January 2008, it was named the album of the year in both the 2007 Village Voice Pazz & Jop and Idolator Pop '07 polls.[24] Time magazine named "All My Friends" one of The 10 Best Songs of 2007, ranking it at #4.[25]

In 2009, Pitchfork Media named the track "All My Friends" as the second best song of the decade,[26] while a month later Sound of Silver was ranked at number 17 in the website's list of the best albums of the 2000s. Rhapsody ranked the album at number five on its "100 Best Albums of the Decade" list.[27] It was also named the twenty-third best album of the decade by Resident Advisor.[28]

In 2012, Rolling Stone ranked the album at number 395 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[29]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by James Murphy, unless otherwise noted. 

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Get Innocuous!"   Murphy, Tyler Pope 7:11
2. "Time to Get Away"   Murphy, Pat Mahoney, Pope 4:11
3. "North American Scum"     5:25
4. "Someone Great"     6:25
5. "All My Friends"   Murphy, Mahoney, Pope 7:37
6. "Us v Them"   Murphy, Mahoney, Pope 8:29
7. "Watch the Tapes"     3:55
8. "Sound of Silver"     7:07
9. "New York, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down"   Murphy, Mahoney, Pope 5:35

Personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic.[30]

Charts

Chart (2010) Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[31] 26
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[32] 74
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[33] 40
French Albums (SNEP)[34] 89
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[35] 80
Italian Albums (FIMI)[36] 45
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[37] 39
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[38] 19
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[39] 60
UK Albums (OCC)[40] 28
US Billboard 200[41] 46
US Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard)[42] 1

References

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External links

  1. ↑ sounds like silver : lcd soundsystem remixed
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  31. ↑ "Ultratop.be – LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
  32. ↑ "Ultratop.be – LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
  33. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
  34. ↑ "Lescharts.com – LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver". Hung Medien. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
  35. ↑ "Longplay-Chartverfolgung at Musicline" (in German). Musicline.de. Phononet GmbH. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
  36. ↑ "Italiancharts.com – LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver". Hung Medien. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
  37. ↑ "Charts.org.nz – LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver". Hung Medien. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
  38. ↑ "Portuguesecharts.com – LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver". Hung Medien. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
  39. ↑ "Swedishcharts.com – LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver". Hung Medien. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
  40. ↑ "LCD Soundsystem | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart Retrieved June 28, 2015.
  41. ↑ "LCD Soundsystem – Chart history" Billboard 200 for LCD Soundsystem. Retrieved June 28, 2015.
  42. ↑ "LCD Soundsystem – Chart history" Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums for LCD Soundsystem. Retrieved June 28, 2015.
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