Andy Kellman of AllMusic wrote that "LCD Soundsystem" "has few weak spots and unfolds smoothly as you listen to it from beginning to end." In his review for "Rolling Stone", Barry Walters said that the album showed that LCD Soundsystem were "both underground hitmakers and bona fide album artists." "Drowned in Sound" critic Gareth Dobson called it "a disparate yet cohesive collection of songs" and said that "the majority of "LCD Soundsystem" is an excellent thump into 2005." Simon Reynolds, writing in "Blender", wrote that the album's "influences meld to form a seductive — if clearly deeply conflicted — self." While expressing disappointment that the album did not fully meet the expectations set by the band's early singles and lacked "very many surprises here, either in the bank of sounds Murphy pulls out, or in how he uses them", Dominique Leone of "Pitchfork" went on to award "LCD Soundsystem" the website's "Best New Music" accolade, though still concluding that it contained "plenty of good-not-great stuff" and was "a tad unfocused". Assigning the album a one-star honorable mention rating, Robert Christgau of "The Village Voice" noted Murphy's alternation between "dance guy or rock guy, optimist or cynic".