Sound of Silver: Get Innocuous

Remember the aughts when most indie music was dance-y? Good times? Good times. Innocuous times, if we believe the worry of one James Murphy who warns as much on the opening of LCD Soundsystem’s Sound of Silver. Matt looks at the legacy, longevity, and punchiness, or lack thereof, of Murphy’s totem of an album. Up as replacements are Phoenix’s gargantuanly popular Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix and Hot Chip’s prickly, but no less beloved, The Warning where both are judged by their handling of emotional profundity and innocuous dance rock.