Museum of Love Return With New Album Life of Mammals.

LCD Soundsystem’s Pat Mahoney and Jee Day’s Dennis McNany are back with their first album in seven years.

Museum of Love are back. The New York–based duo of LCD Soundsystem’s Pat Mahoney and Dennis McNany (aka Jee Day) will release Life of Mammals on July 9 via Skint Records. Mahoney and McNany’s second record arrives seven years after their self-titled 2014 debut and four years after LCD Soundsystem’s comeback album American Dream. Check out the video for lead single “Cluttered World,” directed by Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe, below.

Recorded “in bursts between Mahoney’s LCD touring commitments,” Life of Mammals was mixed by James Murphy and features guest appearances by Arthur Russell collaborator Peter Gordon and Matt Shaw.

Longtime friends in New York, McNany and Mahoney found a similar sensibility and a shared vocabulary for interpreting surroundings, something that began with their remix of Battles’ “My Machines feat. Gary Numan” and extended into their creation of a full length record together.

Naming their duo in ode to Daniel Johnston’s song of the same name, Mahoney divulges, “I had always loved the song, and had been thinking of what such an edifice would contain when we were trying to name the project.” McNany continues, “Pat’s a sculptor, I’m a painter, we make music and museums are sacred spaces and love is an elusive thing.”

Museum of Love is the result of a songwriting collaboration between McNany and Mahoney, with McNany writing
most of the music, and Mahoney most of the words. Together they edited and arranged the tracks in the studio. Mahoney says the process of collaboration was energizing, while McNany simply explains, “making the record was pure pleasure. Waiting for it to come out has been the hardest thing.”