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MGMT talk weird new LP, June release, alien parasites

By | Published on Wednesday 30 January 2013

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When last we saw MGMT, they were craving the approval of baby cats by playing them their new music. Since said baby cats didn’t look pleased – at all – to hear it, the band’s Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden have instead played it to Rolling Stone journalist David Browne, who’s apparently less discerning than a kitten.

According to Browne’s RS article, Goldwasser and WanWyngarden (minus the live band they collaborated with circa 2010’s ‘Congratulations’) have been “holed up in a woodsy cabin … cherry-picking the best parts of their free-form jams to construct tracks that reflect the Aphex Twin and house records they’ve been listening to”. The very tentative date by which that may all be released is a tba day in June.

“We’re not trying to make music that everyone understands the first time they hear it”, says Goldwasser of the new record, whilst VanWyngarden adds: “There’s no illusion on [our label’s] part that we’re going to turn into a top 40 band. That’s kind of comforting”.

Well, it’s nice that he’s being realistic re Maroon 5-style chart popularity, especially given that one of the tracks that may/may not feature on the LP, ‘Alien Days’, is “about that feeling when a parasitic alien is in your head, controlling things”.



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