“I suppose what happened is that I spent my whole life wanting to be cool but eventually came to recognise the mechanism of how coolness works. So it's not really that I don't want to be cool anymore - it's more like I've come to realise that coolness doesn't exist the way I once assumed.”

American musician, DJ, singer, songwriter, and record producer

James Murphy is an American musician, DJ, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for LCD Soundsystem, the project that first drew wider attention with “Losing My Edge” in 2002 and then with its self-titled debut album in 2005. LCD Soundsystem went on to release Sound of Silver in 2007 and This Is Happening in 2010, both of which received strong praise from music critics. Murphy’s work is closely associated with dance-oriented rock and with sharp, self-aware writing about music and modern life.