pop.idolator.comAlbum of the Year: LCD Soundsystem, by Jess Harvell
Despite a pervasive rockcrit feeling to the contrary, jokes and grooves are more than enough on which to build a great record, even a great career. But we all know that an album like Sound of Silver doesn't escape its subculture, doesn't win the approval of this many rock critics of varying allegiances, without mixing in stuff like pain and fear and heartache and miscellaneous intangibles—usually at its own peril, especially when the artist is so adept at beats and laughs.
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Latest by menyc: Well done. Seems so easy now for everyone to knock JM but there wasn't another record in 2007 that I listened to almost every day. I remember the day it was released I was very pleasantly surprised that LCD had more »
