LCD Soundsystem - All My FriendsAlbum: Sound of Silver [2007]
"fidgety piano chords played with clunky imprecision, a tickling rhythm section, and an opening line worthy of a great novel - so begins our favourite song of 2007. like most of lcd soundsystem's future "best of" candidates, "all my friends" starts out handling like a rickety shopping cart and ends up blazing like a house fire. what's special about this one is the story that plays out in between; where james murphy used to take perverse pleasure in making up his lyrics on the spot, this is proof that he's too sharp a writer to leave his words to chance. "all my friends" is about a lot of things - guilt, drugs, the weight of expectation - but mostly, it's about aging, about how the template for growing older is melting away, and about what decisions we make for ourselves in light of such lowered expectations. this is a song about building a compass, and for murphy, that journey not only starts with his friends: it ends there, too." - mark pytlik, pitchfork media [2007]
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