Friday, January 01, 2010

TK #38: LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver (2007)


If Talking Heads had been birthed in a Detroit auto plant instead of CBGB, they’d be LCD Soundsystem and this would be their Remain in Light, a dark, hypnotic, rhythmic tour de force. But where the Heads sweltered in the African heat, James Murphy opts for Rust Beld cold, producing something mechanical yet still human, like a factory worker operating the world’s funkiest machine press.



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