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Like the MGMT album, its starts good but after 6 or 7 songs in, I have to stop. I do like it though and Ill listen to it more. Always have to check the new LCD one out. Too much for me.
"Get Innocuous," its 7 minute opener plunges you into beats so all-encompassing you don't notice what it seems to really, lyrically, be talking about - a fight to keep yourself from getting old. Instead, it reminds me of the Stones' Let It Bleed or the Who's Who's Next for a new generation. What are you to make of, say, "Sound of Silver" that has exactly one line ("Sound of silver talk to me/ makes you want to feel like a teenager/ until you remember the feelings of a real live emotional teenager/ then you think again") plunged into an absolute techno maelstrom. Listeners of the indie generation lost a feel a while ago for a great straight-through album, even one composed of universally well made songs. If any theme deserved a great album, it's that one, and it found its home. Almost monolithically focused on the pains and pangs of aging and accepting adulthood, Sound of Silver is the type of album that forges an idea and pushes it so compulsively from one song to the next, you're almost immediately aware that you're in the type of album you never hear anymore - yet sonically, it's so advanced and up to the moment, lyrically so pointed and clever, it could only be made right now.
That you're happy to be a little older and wiser and more stable, and still capable of dancing all night. Albums like Sound of Silver shouldn't be made anymore. Sound of Silver, though, doesn't remind me of other indie albums, despite its love of the modern-techno dance beats of the reinvented 80s-sound that's permeated indie music the last few years. That theme pops up again and again - from the loss that clouds "Someone Great" to the pounding, brilliant manifesto "All My Friends" that separates the album into two.
that seller should be burn out of the site. at should arrive before cristmas and arrived in february. the cd didn't came with the case and the album. the case that came with, says that the cd was a gift from the newspaper. i dind't refuse it, because would take my precious time.
Murphy's music stems from the awesome tradition of art rock legends David Bowie and David Byrne as well as other krautrock and disco influences. GRADE: A (97%) Dance-punk is generally not my forte, but SOUND OF SILVER blows everything else in that genre out of the water. Just as layered with percussion and synth lines as Talking Heads' masterpiece Remain in Light, SOUND OF SILVER is a must-hear for fans of that album's danceable and dense sound.
Aside from "North American Scum," the beats are boring and repetitive, and the rhymes are nothing special. "North American Scum" is a five-star song, but "Sound of Silver" is a two-star album.
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