HELL YEAH!

As always with LCD Soundsystem records, you're bound to have a good time. Thematically here I can categorize it as a sort of unpolished, more raw version of the band compared to what would follow with Sound of Silver and so on, which honestly I like very much! Ironically it adds a bit of /Edge/ to the album compared to SoS and This Is Happening, as I think the professionalism isn't quite there yet and a lot of the material here is sarcasm galore. Unfortunately, due to this, the albums overall quality is also a double-edged sword, as while it is more punky, I find it to be simply not as great as the later albums would be.

With that being said though, there's a lot of stuff here that is just brilliant and deserving of its praise, especially on a debut.

For Disc 1, which is the main album, I found very little negative stuff here. Of course you have the two hits Daft Punk Is Playing at My House and Tribulations which are really good and have proven that time and time again, but tracks like Movement, Never As Tired As When I'm Waking Up or Great Release are a nice change of pace from the typical Dance-Punk that they deliver and focus more on Indie Rock and Post-Punk, which I really really enjoyed! Thrills is the weakest track here as it does feel all over the place as opposed to the structured repetition that is standard.

For Disc 2, which are singles before this album came out, there's a lot of disparity here. Losing My Edge and Beat Connection are my favourite tracks here, the former for being a kind of memoir of James Murphy himself and the latter for sounding really good once the lyrics finally come in, making the long wait absolutely worth it. Yeah (Crass Version) is another really good song that steers away from the typical Dance-Punk formula and honestly I fuck with it, especially after the lyrics are over where the instrumental continues to whatever it is.

Least favourite track from this part and the album is Tired, it's not baaaaaad, but there are better attempts of Noise Rock out there that really don't make this worth it, especially within the context of the album, since it doesn't really fit in at all.

Overall, absolutely amazing debut that I revisit often, but not perfect.

Another LCD Soundsystem win. 

The other favourite album to a lot of fans and within good reason, it's introspective, energetic as always but I feel like compared to This Is Happening which would follow, the production here is just noticeably more vibrant and as the name would imply, more silver and metallic. 

Pretty much all of the songs have a groove to them and feel interestingly nostalgic in both its objective lyricism and just from my subjective standpoint. Out of the popular tracks on this album, my favourites would have to be Get Innocuous! and Someone Great, the former for just absolutely flying by with the best rhythm out of any LCD song i have heard so far and then the latter for having the best instrumental on this album, the simplicity of it all and its buildup is just so damn good and in the case of Someone Great they pull it off fabulously. Outside of the clear popular ones from this album, I found the more underrated ones to be quite good aswell! Us V Them being my standout from those, but I think all of the tracks very good regardless of popularity of length. 

Overall, I enjoyed this album a lot! Would i put it above This Is Happening? It honestly depends. I think this album achieves vibrancy and nostalgia quite well but it would really just depend on what i'm in the mood for, but to give a proper answer, this could either be tied or interchanged for "best LCD album". 

(rewritten 05/06/2026)

This is an incredible album.

This Is Happening was the first LCD Soundsystem album I ever checked out, purely out of impulse. Nearly over a year after I initially gave my review about it, this album hasn't aged one bit. Every single intricate detail, from the rhythms to the drums to synths that I hadn't even considered before listening is just immaculate. That one decision introduced me to a lot of concepts and ideas I simply just haven't even thought of before, like "Dance-Punk" even being something that existed, or to have basically your entire discography regularly hit the 5 minute mark every single time.

To comment on the album, it's genuinely a masterpiece, although I find details constantly where I could understand someone not liking the album that much. Dance Yrself Clean was honestly an anthem for me and it still kinda is, the first time I heard the buildup out of Part 1 into the synthy goodness was absolutely legendary. One Touch being inspired by the former "dark wave punk bands [...]" in Philadelphia certainly made me fall in love with the timbral and mechanical nature of the song. All I Want is a beautiful track that breaks me basically any time I listen to it, the final segment of just "take me hoooooooooomeeeeeeeeeeeee" tears me up more than it should. 

Pow Pow introduced me to Spoken Word and arguably is the cause for me being a sucker for artists using the instrumental as an element, rather than being dependant on it rhythmically. Home being the finale of the album breaks me even more than All I Want does, even if admittedly the ending feels just the tiniest bit draggy.

All in all, even if ironically, the album took time to grow on me, I am very proud to call this one of my all-time favourites and I am so happy to call LCD Soundsystem one of my favourite bands of all time.