LCD Sound Attempts Guerilla Takeover

LCD Soundsystem's sophmore album, Sound of Silver is currently resting on a shelf in your local music store, silently waiting for adoring fans to launch its music to the highest reaches of the Top 40 Music Charts. James Murphy, a classic overachiever, has one simple request for LCDS fans and anyone who wants to pick up the new album - Could you please, all purchase your copies of Sound of Silver this week? It would mean so much to him and the band. If you do, Murphy won't need to find you at the next show and try out his latest Ultimate Fighting moves. And, if you are planning on buying the album anyway, not only will you have the lovely artwork alongside the eclectic sounds of Nancy Whang, Pat Mahoney, and Tyler Pope bobbing, throbbing, slamming, and swimming off of silver foil wrapped walls and transforming into bits of data to be reproduced in your ears as "stunning", "beautiful", "shiny", "ecstatic", and "soaring harmonies" according to its early reviewers, but you will gain one extra thing by purchasing it this week. You will have the honor and power to use your music budget to aid Sound of Silver's guerilla takeover of the Billboard charts, and James Murphy's limited protection and gratitude!Show some love this week, buy Sound of Silver! In return, LCD Soundsystem will perform zany antics for you while playing the lead single, "North American Scum" on The Late Show with David Letterman on April 11th, as well as travel around the world looking for you to say thanks and play a concert for you. They are calling this search for their fans a "tour" and they have posted all the details, with recent updates, on the LCD Soundsystem website. You can even monitor the progress of the chart coup with the "takeover thermometer" on this page! If that isn't enough to feed your LCD lust for this evening, then you might also enjoy today's Village Voice feature which shares some background and a great story about the dynamic roles of James Murphy. He talks about the frontman concept, the various stages of success and failure in his 4 decades on this planet, and the transformation of an iTunes/Nike single into a reworked highlight of the new album. Enjoy the warm electronic fuzziness of the silver sounds!