The MGMTs are another one of those groups with the syndrome The Strokes Those who will be haunted forever by the sanbenito of having given birth to an epic and apparently insurmountable first album. What differentiates MGMT from the rest is that, very probably, they don't care that their later works have an anecdotal impact when compared to the musical bang that was Oracle Spectacular in 2006. Proof of this is the duo's latest single released a few days ago, the first for MGMT as an independent label: In the afternoon.
MGMT New Single: IN THE AFTERNOON
Four Sony-Columbia albums later, MGMT have returned to the exciting but risky world of non-record Most under the arm. and they have with a continuous path of the very attractive dark and gothic sound with which they surprised us on their album little dark ages in 2018. , if anything, the best album they have released since they decided to take seriously what started as a game in college fifteen years ago.
Will MGMT's new songs sound like this?
in the afternoon discreetly abandons the psychedelia that until recently characterized the music of Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser for fully subscribe to a retro sound that screams out loud eighties.
Sometimes in the afternoon sounds like (if we are allowed to be bold) an updated version of the sound of Depeche Mode o The Smith's. The song will be released on vinyl along with a second unreleased cut, As You Move Through The World under his new label MGMT Records. Although there is no album in sight, it would not be surprising if the duo were preparing a new album for 2020.
MGMT: fifteen years of solid irregularity
It has happened to MGMT like The Strokes: immediate promotion pickle and many years of relative silence mainstream.
MGMT rose to stardom in a flash in 2005 after releasing (with Columbia) Oracle Spectacular, a pop/electronic record that, as they have confessed in many interviews, was not serious and that they did "as a joke" and mock what pop music is supposed to be. From there came cuts as immortal and ubiquitous as Kids y Time to pretend:
Unfortunately, when the friends did decide to take music seriously, the invention came out a little weirder. Experimental.
Although of Congratulations (2010) can still save the song that gives the album its name, Flash delirium o It's working, the band's third album (titled MGMT (2013)) It was a complicated job and quite poorly received. With everything, the album includes the spectacular hallucinogenic trip of Alien Days as opening cut to, later, introduce ourselves in another class of trip of much more arduous route.
little dark ages
We would not be able to enjoy new music again until five years later with the groundbreaking little dark age 2018. The album, in which the aforementioned turn towards aesthetics and the gothic sound was introduced, represented a complete reconciliation of MGMT with the critics and the more general public thanks to the homonymous single, but also to when you die o Hand it over.
All of them are songs of superlative quality with a marked nostalgic tone and a structure that balances between that of classic pop and that of an uncertain melody with which one never ends up being able to foresee which paths it will take you along.
little dark age It is, quietly, the best work of MGMT as a mature group, and lays a very promising foundation for a future that we look forward to as soon as possible.