Features Albums Of 2007: #1 LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver

If you’ve been keeping up to speed you’ll realise that of three singles released from ‘Sound Of Silver’, three singles feature in our favourite tracks list. So, without even the use of a simple mathematic equation, it’s obvious that by default, the second long player from our favourite Uncle, James Murphy and his LCD Soundsystem, is going to top the list of 2007’s albums by default.

Except it didn’t need to be by default, as ‘Sound Of Silver’ is by far the best album of the year, and could possibly prove itself to be the best of the decade. To use a cliche, it’s greater than the sum of its parts. Its parts are bloody magnificent to begin with. It’s the glam rock stomp of ‘North American Scum’, the disco-tastic ‘Time To Get Away’ or the delicate ‘Someone Great’. It’s the scientifically precise expression of the emotion it’s possible to feel towards a place during ‘New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down’, the track every bit the perfect end to a perfect album.

And yet, on each listen it gets better and better.