Little Dark Age MGMT

• 1 She Works Out Too Much 04:38
• 2 Little Dark Age 04:59
• 3 When You Die 04:23
• 4 Me and Michael 04:49
• 5 TSLAMP 04:30
• 6 James 03:52
• 7 Days That Got Away 04:44
• 8 One Thing Left to Try 04:20
• 9 When You're Small 03:30
• 10 Hand It Over 04:18
• Total Runtime 44:03

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Auf eines kann man sich bei MGMT jederzeit verlassen: ihre konsequente stilistische Unzuverlässigkeit. Vor ziemlich genau zehn Jahren hatten Andrew VanWyngarden und Ben Goldwasser mit stilprägenden Songs wie 'Kids' und 'Time to Pretend' sowie dem Grammy-nominierten Album 'Oracular Spectacular' einen musikalischen Trend ausgelöst und quasi im Alleingang ein extrem erfolgreiches Indietronic/Nerdpop-Subgenre erschaffen, das der Welt in den Folgejahren Hits von Bands wie Empire of the Sun, Foster The People, Passion Pit oder Tame Impala bescherte. Anstatt aber geschmeidig auf der selbst ausgelösten Hype-Welle mitzuschwimmen, ließ das New Yorker Duo zwei Jahre später mit 'Congratulations' ein Album folgen, das völlig überraschend mit gitarrenlastigem Psychedelic-Jangle-Indie-Gitarrenpop (inklusive Hommage an TV Personalities-Legende Dan Treacy) aufwartete. Weitere drei Jahre später verblüffte das Duo Fans und Fachwelt mit einem selbstbetitelten Album, das zehn höchst verschwurbelte, skizzenhafte Pop-Experimente enthielt.

Im Herbst 2017 vollziehen die Herren VanWyngarden und Goldwasser nun eine weitere stilistischen Kehrtwendung: ihre fantastische neue Single 'Little Dark Age' klingt in etwa wie der unveröffentlichte 'Drive'-Soundtrack-Beitrag, den die Spätachtziger-Ausgabe von Depeche Mode zusammen mit Kurtis Mantronik und Liaisons Dangereuses nie aufgenommen hat. Catchy Retro-futuristischer Synth-Funk-Pop mit 'Blade Runner'-eskem Dystopie-Flair. Fünf Minuten pure Awesomeness.

Die Single ist der Titelsong des kommenden Albums, das Anfang 2018 erscheinen wird. Die Aufnahmen fanden im Frühling 2017 statt, zuvor hatte die Band etwa ein Jahr in Songwriting- und Studio-Sessions in New York und Los Angeles investiert. Das geheimnisumwitterte, surreal-cineastische Video, in dem Andrew VanWyngarden und Ben Goldwasser in flamboyantem Gothic-Outfit von Gevatter Tod gestalked werden, entstand unter der Regie von David MacNutt und Nathaniel Axel.

Die Aufnahmen des Albums fanden unter der Regie von Patrick Wimberly (Chairlift, Kelela, Blood Orange) und ihrem langjähriger Studiopartner Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Spoon, Tame Impala) statt. Einige der Songs aus 'Little Dark Age' feierten bereits im Rahmen der MGMT-Festivalauftritte im Laufe des Jahres 2017 ihre Live-Premiere.

MGMT

MGMT
(pronounced "Management") are a genre-bending psychedelic synth-pop duo from New York. After the release of their debut album, Oracular Spectacular, MGMT's profile swiftly rose. They have toured with Of Montreal and Yeasayer, and are frequently compared to Beck.

Background: Though they hail from the hipster neighborhood of Williamsburg in New York’s Brooklyn borough, MGMT was born —under the name The Management— in rural Connecticut, on the hallowed campus of Wesleyan University where the art-student pair happened to live down-the-hall from each other in the same dormitory.

"There wasn’t a point where we were like ‘hey, I like you, I like your style, let's start a band!’" Goldwasser says, of the beginnings of their collaborative relationship. "It just came from us hanging out, messing around, making songs. After a while, we had two or three songs, and then it was four, and then at some point we just kind of realized we had a band. Without ever actually deciding to form a band."

Beginnings: Working from a record collection that included The Flaming Lips, Royal Trux, Suicide, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Prince, Pavement, and Neil Young, VanWyngarden and Goldwasser started out making rote replications of cuts they loved.

"A lot of our songs, especially when we were just starting out, we were trying to create a song in a certain genre; we never wanted to have a single sound, crank out a bunch of songs that all sounded the same," recounts Goldwasser. "All of our songs felt like experiments, but, eventually, all those experiments started to blur together, and as we got better at songwriting, we started writing things that just sounded like us."

MGMT began as a recording project, the duo working on many songs that would show up, recurringly, on both their 2005 debut EP Time to Pretend and Oracular Spectacular. When they started to play live, The Management were pretty much a goof-off.

"It started out as a complete joke," confesses Goldwasser. "We'd play shows, but usually our shows were just the two of us singing along with an iPod. We weren't playing instruments, it was more of a spectacle than an actual live concert. People didn't know whether to take it as a complete joke or not. It was kind of funny seeing how other people would try and gauge their reactions by us; like, they seemed like they were trying to work out whether we took ourselves seriously or not. It left people feeling very confused. That's something that we’ve always enjoyed doing: confusing people."

Breakout: After self-releasing their Time to Pretend EP, and touring with Of Montreal, the band signed to Columbia Records and set about recording their debut album with Dave Fridmann, the longtime Flaming Lips producer. MGMT released their debut album, Oracular Spectacular in digital format, in October 2007, three months ahead of the album's physical release. Mixing up a variety of genres, the album introduced MGMT as a jokey band of no fixed style.

"I don’t feel like we play a particular style of music at all, so in that way it feels like we’re quite isolated," says Goldwasser. "I wouldn’t know where to begin in describing our music, so, without that, it’s hard to work out what bands might sound like us."

Since the release of Oracular Spectacular, which peaked at #60 on the Billboard chart, MGMT have achieved considerable commercial success abroad. Both the album and the single "Electric Feel" charted in the Australian Top 10 and the UK Top 20.

In 2010, MGMT released their second album, Congratulations. Produced by Pete 'Sonic Boom' Kember of Spacemen 3 and featuring guest vocals from Jennifer Herrema of Royal Trux, the album was released without any accompanying singles. Tending towards madcap arrangements and an experimental, hectic approach, the band posited it as a more accurate representation of MGMT.

"We dropped any sort of irony that was on the first record, and Congratulations feels true to who we really are," VanWyngarden told Spin.

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