LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 102 Ratings

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  • Summary: Hipsters, rejoice! James Murphy, one-half of the in-demand indie-rock production duo The DFA (The Rapture, et al), finally makes his full-length debut as an artist as LCD Soundsystem.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 35
  2. Negative: 0 out of 35
  1. 100
    It's like the best music of the '70s compressed under '80s new wave dynamics. [Feb 2005, p.74]
  2. While LCD Soundsystem is grounded in the past, quality and talent make it an album deserving to be listened to for years to come. Talk to me in a few months, but I think this one won't be beat.
  3. LCD Soundsystem have set 2005's bar very high indeed and they sound like they’ve barely got started.
  4. It took ages to arrive, but LCD Soundsystem isn't the album you've been waiting for -- it's far, far better.
  5. The varied sounds and variety show that he has more tricks up his sleeve than I was led to believe. [#9]
  7. LCD Soundsystem is mostly too afraid to be balls-out fun, but too unambitious to make for a really rewarding artistic experience. Essentially, it sits awkwardly in a no-man’s land between artistry and actual dancing fun, like guess-what-demographic.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 35 out of 46
  2. Negative: 9 out of 46
  1. ericf
    Mar 5, 2005
    it's real music. it pays you back for your effort. not much does that.
  2. derrekj
    Sep 24, 2005
    are you insane? seriously? i can't even get into how well this record is made--how it works in so many ways. the songs rule independently, and as an album (short and sweet) it actually flows! that's completely disregarding the ridiculously detailed and amazing tracks on the bonus disc. give it 5 years... the bands that went balls out for the glory will be dead and gone, or so horrible and pop that you'll be ashamed you ever went to see them. lcd and dfa will be left standing, getting better and better. Expand
  3. MarkJ
    May 11, 2007
    Even better than the first album, every song is worth of a single release
  4. ManuelA
    Feb 18, 2005
    Exciting sound, the right influences in the right moment -but making music which will survive.
  5. Decepticon_Pom
    Mar 2, 2005
    Sheer scope is the order of the day. Rekon this is one dance album that won't lose its sheen 12 or 24 months from now but will actually get better with age. Expand
  6. KonstantinL
    Apr 1, 2005
    Beat Connection is great, however.... Many of the tracks on this album are virtually note for note rip offs of songs by Krautrock groups like Can, Neu! and inparticular Cluster. Hearing such blatant musical thieft takes alot of the sheen off what is basically a decent album. Collapse
  7. KimP
    Jun 10, 2005
    this band is absolutely horrible.

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