Museum Of Love

★★★★

Life Of Mammals SKINT. DL/LP

LCD Soundsystem offshoot up the drama over infectious no-wave grooves.

Given the fact that James Murphy re-formed LCD Soundsystem in 2016, it’s perhaps unsurprising that it’s taken their drummer Pat Mahoney, also the vocalist here, seven years to follow up the eponymous debut album he made in cahoots with DFA artist Jee Day (real name: Dennis McNany). Murphy mixed Life Of Mammals, resulting in added punch to the persistent beats, along with unmistakable echoes of his day-band. Mahoney’s melodically edgy voice meanwhile sits somewhere between the swooping drama of Scott Walker and the yearning soul of Orange Juiceera Edwyn Collins. Artful arrangements take their time here: analogue electronic pulsing backdrops two saxophones duelling to disorientating effect in Your Nails Have Grown, while Hotel At Home sounds like something that might have rumbled through New York’s Danceteria circa 1982.