LCD Soundsystem (album)

LCD Soundsystem is the debut studio album by American dance-punk act LCD Soundsystem, released in January 2005 by DFA Records. Some editions contained two discs: the LP itself with new songs and a second disc featuring singles released since 2002. The album was nominated for the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album.

Reception

LCD Soundsystem received widespread acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 86, based on 35 reviews.

AllMusic reviewer Andy Kellman said that the album "has few weak spots and unfolds smoothly as you listen to it from beginning to end." Dominique Leone of Pitchfork Media criticized the record for not meeting the expectations set by the band's early singles, saying that "there aren't very many surprises here, either in the bank of sounds Murphy pulls out, or in how he uses them." Leone went on to award the album the website's "Best New Music" accolade, but concluded that it contained "plenty of good-not-great stuff" and said that it was "unfocused". In his review for Rolling Stone, Barry Walters said that the record showed that LCD Soundsystem were "both underground hitmakers and bona fide album artists."Drowned in Sound critic Gareth Dobson called it "a disparate yet cohesive collection of songs" and said that "the majority of LCD Soundsystem is an excellent thump into 2005." Assigning the album a one-star honorable mention rating,Robert Christgau of The Village Voice noted Murphy's alternation between "dance guy or rock guy, optimist or cynic".

LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 2001. It is fronted by singer-songwriter and producer James Murphy, co-founder of record label DFA Records. The band began by recording and releasing multiple singles from 2002 to 2004 leading up to their eponymous debut studio album, which was released in 2005 and garnered critical acclaim as well as a Grammy nomination for Best Electronic/Dance Album. Their single "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House" also received a Grammy nomination for Best Dance Recording. In the following year, LCD Soundsystem recorded and released the composition "45:33", a forty-six minute-long composition that was made as a "workout track" especially for Nike as part of their Nike+ Original Run series. In 2007, the band released their second studio album, Sound of Silver, to critical acclaim and another Grammy nomination for Best Electronic/Dance Album. Three years later, LCD Soundsystem released their third studio album, This Is Happening, which became their first top-ten album in their home country of the United States.