LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy has revealed in a new interview with Crack Magazine that he wanted to recruit Leonard Cohen for the band’s new album American Dream. “When I worked on the last song of the record [“Black Screen”] I said I wanted a spoken word bit done at the end. I said it would be amazing to have Lou Reed on the end of that song but he’d died,” Murphy said. “But then I said, ‘I feel like I could talk to Leonard Cohen, let’s call Leonard Cohen and maybe he’ll do it,’ and then he died like three days later and I’m like… ‘fuck off.’ I’m not going to ask anybody else because they’re just going to die.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Murphy discusses the dark tone of the new album, revealing that band member Al Doyle described new song “How Do You Sleep?” as “‘Dance Yrself Clean’ for the worst year ever.” He also talked about the meaning behind the song “Tonite,” the backlash the band faced upon their return, and more. Check out the full thing here.