MGMT (s/t 2013)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG2Pgd6Tm7Q

i think it's a good track, in an "experimental" XTC kinda way, except for the child singing in the beginning.

dear god..

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MGMT is the self-titled forthcoming third album by American psychedelic rock band MGMT to be released on September 17, 2013.

The album will feature a variety of unique visual elements to accompany and illuminate the new music via "The Optimizer", which provides listeners a simultaneously aural & optical listening experience featuring video & CGI work, and will be available as part of an enhanced album package on all commercial formats.

Track Listings
1. Alien Days
2. Cool Song No. 2
3. Mystery Disease
4. Introspection
5. Your Life Is a Lie
6. A Good Sadness
7. Astro-Mancy
8. I Love You Too, Death
9. Plenty Of Girls In the Sea
10. An Orphan Of Fortune

Yessss

hey wait, this new song & video are awesome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cye-1RP5jso

Henry Winkler!

hey wait, this new song & video are awesome!

― wk, Tuesday, August 6, 2013 2:39 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

x2. quite a comeback from that snoozer of a song they released before.

They wasted all the hooks they had on them on their debut, huh?

i enjoyed that.

will buy when its a fiver in fopp

I wonder if that's the best song on the album or if they're holding something back.

well at least it leaves me curious enough 2 find out

awesome song indeed.

was waiting for YACHT to release new music

to be fair i do like this a little better than the yacht stuff

it's good and their 2nd album was better than their 1st

They wasted all the hooks they had on them on their debut, huh?

otm

Where is the melodies?

geir ate em

to replace
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love that song, strong Devo meets Flaming Lips vibe

Xtc,wire,the fall

THOUGHTS ?

when will someone set everything these dudes have recorded on fire

Want to love it but nah

Not sure what to make of this new one. I ended up really loving the last album but apart from a few interesting moments this didn't really leave much of an impression.

This is a terrible, repulsive album.

I can't listen to more than 15 seconds of any given MGMT song without lunging for the skip button

This is a terrible, repulsive album.

― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

How did you rate the last album?

a boring, repulsive album

I'm just weighing up if I should ask how you found the first album....

How did you rate the first album?

This is an act that has never had any clue about what they want to sound like.

This is the band my bf will put on when he's mad at me about something

First one didn't make much of an impression on me... totally loved 'Congratulations'... find this one pretty rotten so far (though I do like "YLIAL").

I'm thinkin it's the Fridmann factor. Dude is the indie T-Bone Burnett. Blech.

Liked the three singles on the first album, ended up loving Congratulations and enjoying it way more than the debut. Not sure I'll play this one again.

i wish nothing but ill for these folks

why do MGMT annoy you lot that much?

lotta backlash after one of them bombed the boston marathon

I just really, really hate the music.

I grew to like "Kids," but after hanging out with people who listen to them A LOT I've decided I really don't like them.

MGMT either

lol

:[

the album is so squashed/compressed/blown out! I know that sounds like a contradiction in terms but, it's WAY overloaded, not like Congrats where it was really nicely blended and warm, this is like, earbud distortion-wave

still needs more listens, but so far Your Life is a Lie is the one great song on here

But yeah, MGMT don't deserve the sort of indie Bieber-esque circlejerk of hate they get. Bc you hate their fans, their early singles? Not exactly unique, good bands having shitty fans and overexposed, burnt out singles/flukes.....Congratulations is a fantastic album

Writing a song so Frank Ocean can sample its hook is their most lasting contribution.

when I said upthread that I couldn't get through more than 15 seconds of any given MGMT song I've heard, I was 100% serious

I've managed to not be around many IRL people who've even heard of them, let alone listens to them incessantly, so I have no real exposure to their fanbase. I just wholly detest their music.

in what ways?

I thought I liked the first album but the other day I heard Pieces of What in a pub and wondered what that awful music was until I googled the lyrics. So, like most people, I guess I really just liked the hits.

It's all about the first half of that album. I still get quite nostalgic for 2008 when I hear bits from it.

in what ways?

Every snippet I've heard (and snippets are all I've heard because, as I stated, I've turned them off after 15 seconds) has been viscerally unpleasant to listen to. The instruments sound like they are actively working against each other, often exacerbated by the most unpleasant, grating synth noises possible used as if they were melodic leads on rhythmically lifeless songs, and the bits of singing I've heard is unforgivably wimpy, breathy, lifeless and aggressively out of tune. There is absolutely nothing here that I consider to be of value, from song construction up through execution. They are one of the worst bands I've ever encountered.

It's the singing that kills me.

Actually let me walk that back a little bit; in the hands of a more competent songwriter/arranger, the synth patches could be great. I love a lot of music with discordant and/or detuned noises in them. Very little of it is trying to be jaunty-sounding pop songs.

It all sounds like amateurs digging Primal Scream and AnCo without having a clue.

this new album is very interesting, have only heard these guys peripherally before (only saw their videos, which rip off films that I like very much). will have to check out the earlier albums.

I would completely understand why someone would find their pretenses unlistenably annoying (especially the voice), and yes you can hear how hard they're trying at times, but I wouldn't exactly say amateurish. I hear much more of a Zombies / Pretty Things / Incredible String Band homage on the songwriting structure front than anything contemporary.

i don't mind some of their recorded stuff - but they were one of the hands down worst live acts i'd ever seen.

I don't know the first album that well (other than the singles), but Congratulations sounds nothing like Prml Scrm or AnCo.

The new one is unlistenable (cept for 'Your Life..." - that's a decent tune).

I'm giving this a listen this morning. I really liked the first album and I loved the second album but the new songs I've heard (mainly "Alien Days" and "Your Life") haven't left much of an impression. I like them alot, I like the vocals, the melodies, etc. The second album I felt was really great but I thought the first was just about as good as it and the whole "oh they are too weird to like the first album" stuff was distracting and dumb. But most of that is probably out of their control, I'm sure they get asked constantly about their big hits, they were probably sick of them before the first album was even out.

Kind of puzzled about "Your Life is a Lie" being everyone's favorite. It's barely a song.

Introspection is great, too...

the hate they inspire is pretty funny but baffling

it's an ok release. nothing hugely special but very likeable. weirdly, i was listening to a lot of early split enz just before hearing this and they seem quite similar.

:(

The album's fucking great

I listened to it again on Sunday, which was a nice fall day, while taking the train out of see my family. Again, I can't remember much aside from a few tracks ("Alien Days" is really growing on me, "Your Life is a Lie" too, though maybe cos it stands out so sharply amidst everything else). Anyways yeah "Congratulations" had a very guitar and rock-oriented thing going for it, whereas here it is much more about the keys. Feels as if some of these songs were improvized in the studio. Lay down a drum loop put down a chord progression w some synth pads go write some lyrics, whisper/sing them on top, etc. Whereas the last album felt more like they were song that had been rehearsed and performed live.

After listening to this I switched to Simon & Garfunkle's "Bookends" and it was kind of striking how much "Save the Life of My Child" had in common w MGMT. Though way more catchy and schizophrenic.

Good comparison

http://www.electronicbeats.net/en/features/interviews/everything-is-not-ok-an-interview-with-mgmt/

This is one of the better interviews I've read w them.