Rejoice true believers! Believers in the case being anyone who remembers buying
Oracular Spectacular freshmen year of college, and being thoroughly disappointed with this band sine afterwards. After months of teasing and speculation, MGMT have finally cleared September 17th as the release date for their self-titled album on Columbia Records. So far all that can be gleaned from it is that one single the band prepped for Record Store Day, "Alien Days" (which can be heard
here). It's probably premature to judge an entire album based on that one little song, but it's certainty telling that MGMT have announced that for the new album, they're scaling back from the big band set-up used on
Congratulations, to that old day set up of them just being a fuzzy electronic duo. This is by all accounts, a good first move. No bones about it;
Congratulation kinda sucked. Or to be more politically correct about it, it was a "challenging album". I'm not expecting MGMT to stay the same kids who banged out feel good grooves like "Time To Pretend", and "Electric Feel". I understand that that they do need to grow up. But if that's the case, I can accept
Congratulations as a product of their awkward teen years; the ones when they started experimenting with shitty drugs, and found out that they didn't make them more interesting.
Weirdly enough "Alien Days" sounds reminiscent of Radiohead. And if that's a hint as to what direction MGMT is heading in now, they could do alot worse. Tracklist posted bellow.
01 Alien Days 02 Cool Song No. 2 03 Mystery Disease 04 Introspection 05 Your Life Is a Lie 06 A Good Sadness 07 Astro-Mancy 08 I Love You Too, Death 09 Plenty Of Girls in the Sea 10 An Orphan of Fortune
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