Spending over a decade in New York as a perennial indie-rock no-hoper sound engineer, James Murphy reinvented himself in his early 30s as LCD Soundsystem. He established himself as a self-effacing obscuro-muso king on his debut two-disc self-titled record, but it was his sophomore effort that would be his magnum opus. Sound Of Silver threw back to the transgressive sounds of the seventies and the ironic sensibilities of nineties slacker culture, but the powerful one-two punch of Someone Great and All My Friends punctured the sarcasm and defined the noughties for a burgeoning breed of hipsters in Brooklyn and further afield.
Sound Of Silver is also #423 on the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list by Rolling Stone magazine, which means Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail have listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring hot takes on everything from Raytheon, Kraftwerk, Metro Area, Faithless, therapy and plagiarism, as well as a scintillating edition of Secret Posho and a surprisingly fair incarnation of Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo. All that and more, plus YouTube Comment of the Week, on this week’s Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!