Post subject: [2018-02-09] MGMT "Little Dark Age" (Columbia)
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 5:00 pm
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MGMT’s New Album Features Ariel Pink, Connan Mockasin, And A Catchy Song They Wrote On Acid
MGMT have been hard at work on a new album called Little Dark Age, their first since 2013’s self-titled. We’ve already heard two songs from it, the goth-poppy title track and the psych-poppy “When You Die,” and now, thanks to a new profile of the band in Q Magazine, we know a little more. Patrick Wimberly of Chairlift, who co-produced the album alongside Dave Fridmann, encouraged Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser to bring in outside collaborators, which led them to work with fellow psychedelic travelers like Connan Mockasin and Ariel Pink, who wrote part of “When You Die.”
And while the music video for that song looks a whole lot like an acid trip, it was another song, “James,” that was inspired by a real-life acid trip. After taking “what we were calling a microdose of acid,” which turned out to be more of a macro-dose, with Wimberly, VanWyngarden explains, “I spent hours screaming at the top of my lungs about Pakistan.” Somehow, when Goldwasser sent over a keyboard loop, their trip turned into a productive songwriting session, and they finished the whole song right then and there.
Elsewhere in the article, VanWyngarden discusses his and Goldwasser’s shared love of European synthpop and explains that despite the title, Little Dark Age is actually a lighter album. “When we were doing the last album, we kept talking about wanting to make pop songs, but it just wasn’t happening, like we had to get this other stuff out,” he says. “Maybe doing it allowed us to get where we got to with the new one, which is more relaxed. We’re both really happy that that’s what came out this time.”
Post subject: [2018-02-09] MGMT "Little Dark Age" (Columbia)
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 2:50 am
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I'm obsessed with the title track of this already, and the video is a perfect blend of various 80's references, from Toto's Africa to Duran Duran's Girls On Film, along with a whole bunch of stuff that echoes influences ranging from The Style Council to old Hammer Horror movies. The ruined church/cemetery scenes, the references to the Medieval painting, the shadow-puppetry, the magician, the use of the guy and girl who seem to be real life twins, as well as the recurring idea of doppelgängers (the keyboard player and the photographer's assistant being portrayed by the same woman, the inexplicable dual roles played by the man and woman who are wandering around pulling white sheets from what's presumed to be furniture in the abandoned room), as well as the 'backwards' footage and use of smoke - it's all a very well studied homage to that whole era of early music videos. It's also creepy and funny by turns, which I like.
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Post subject: [2018-02-09] MGMT "Little Dark Age" (Columbia)
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2018 1:29 pm
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Rick A wrote:
Get as ASAP RackleNut, it's really good!
yep, rick... i'm am infatuated with 8 out of the 10 tracks (i find 7 and 9 are duds, IMHO). i've been listening to it non-stop in the car. and i keep telling myself i need to change it out.
Post subject: [2018-02-09] MGMT "Little Dark Age" (Columbia)
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2018 12:33 am
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RackleNut wrote:
Rick A wrote:
Get as ASAP RackleNut, it's really good!
yep, rick... i'm am infatuated with 8 out of the 10 tracks (i find 7 and 9 are duds, IMHO). i've been listening to it non-stop in the car. and i keep telling myself i need to change it out.
I was in the same position as you Alan where I had this album and the new Franz Ferdinand "Always Ascending" in heavy rotation on the car. I finally pulled them out of the CD player this evening and into the house so I can hear them on the big system.
Post subject: [2018-02-09] MGMT "Little Dark Age" (Columbia)
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2018 12:36 am
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Geff R. wrote:
This is getting so much buzz I'm hoping to hear it. I've never heard this band.
I think you will like them Geff. They have a cool New Romantic vibe going and a cool balance with female / male lead vocal tracks. Love the atmospherics as well.
Alan, would like to add anything to my quick blurb for Geff?
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