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The Sound Of Silver? Well, I suppose a cowbell could be silver.
LCD Soundsystem, last seen wanking on a treadmill for Nike’s coins with 45’33” (hat tip: Charlie Brooker), are back, begging our forgiveness for such ugly commercialism. So let’s make them dance and sing for a bit for our amusement.
“Be Lodger-era Bowie!” we say. “OK”, they say, “just let me add another track to these already multi-tracked vocals and we’ll be right with you”. Ahhh, Bowie. We start to wonder where it all went wrong for multi-millionaire supermodel-shagging secret-of-perpetual-youth-knowing David Bowie, and a wistful expression crosses our face.
“Do “Losing My Edge” again, but with more cowbell” we demand, quite rightly. That’ll cheer us up. They shake their silver, we low contentedly, but wonder what happened to all the hipster self-aware lyrics.
“Be funnier!” we shout. “We are North American scum!” they retort, and we laugh, although wonder whether the joke may be on us in a way that is too clever for us to understand, so decide to move on.
“Do Roxy Music!” we say next, and they launch into “Virginia Plain”, but then realise they don’t know the words, so try one of the slower ones from the end of Roxy’s first. We appreciate the effort, so we let them turn the page of our Bryan Ferry 2007 calendar even though it isn’t the end of the month.
The Sound Of Silver? Maybe it’s a magpie thing….
Listen to lachrymose finale “New York I Love You” here
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