As one half of the production team DFA, he has had a hand in the creation of some huge modern day indie-disco hits.

Anyone who has ever cut a rug to The Rapture's House of Jealous Lovers (and that's a lot of people - myself included) will testify that he knows how to make a record that you just have to dance to.

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With a seemingly encyclopaedic knowledge of music and the ability to mix together disparate genres at will, it was a given that his LCD Soundsystem project was going to be something worth shouting about. Arriving in 2002 with the hipster-baiting Losing My Edge, Murphy released a string of great singles before dropping the eponymous album in 2005.

He now returns bigger and better with Sound Of Silver.
Get Innocuous kicks things off with repetitive drum and synthesizer parts that build underneath Murphy's David Bowie meets David Byrne croon. So absorbing is the opener that by the time the squalling strings bring it to a close, it's hard to believe that it has been playing for more than seven minutes. Time to Get Away delivers the first cowbell fix of the album while a Casio style bossa-nova heralds the arrival of recent single North American Scum, a distant cousin to Daft Punk Is Playing at My House from the first record.

Murphy's capacity for genre-hopping and musical reference is one of his main strengths and is in evidence on this LP with nods to Kraftwerk, The Fall, New Order, Human League, Talking Heads and even Pink Floyd (albeit lyrically, on All My Friends).

Crucially, influences are chewed up and spat out as original ideas, never plumbing the depths of pastiche.
Sound Of Silver, like its predecessor, is a dance album (with the notable exception of piano ballad New York I Love You) but it should have a far wider appeal than this would suggest.

It is an intelligent piece of work that is as much for the head as the feet and manages to pin smart song structures and well observed lyrics to its electronic beeps and beats.

In a world increasingly obsessed with style over substance, it's nice to know that there are still some artists that have both.

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