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MGMT pray for good sound

Music Gossip

15 Oct 2010

MGMT sometimes "pray" that they sound good to their audiences. The 'Siberian Breaks' band acknowledge the sound they hear onstage is different to that which can be heard by fans in the venues they play, and they joked that a particularly bad show in…

MGMT's pop return?

Music Gossip

5 Oct 2010

MGMT may return to making "super-satirical pop music". The US band received mixed reviews for their second album, 'Congratulations', because it dropped the band's established electro-pop sound to focus on more experimental material, but the group…

MGMT's McCartney wish

Music Gossip

11 Aug 2010

MGMT wish Sir Paul McCartney would get in touch to arrange a collaboration. The former Beatles star has previously expressed a desire to work with the psychedelic pop duo, but the pair have admitted he hasn't yet contacted them to arrange laying down…

MGMT too crazy for Jay-Z

Music Gossip

30 Apr 2010

MGMT's collaboration with Jay-Z was rejected because they "went crazy". The psychedelic pop duo admit they took the wrong approach to the track sent to them to work on by the rap mogul for his last album 'The Blueprint 3' - and it was subsequently…

MGMT - Congratulations

29 Mar 2010

(Columbia) Two years after their debut Oracular Spectacular, Brooklyn electro-psych duo MGMT’s eagerly anticipated follow-up resembles a different band at first. The opening ‘It’s Working’ sounds like Johnny Marr working with Syd Barrett, while ‘Song…

Amazing Baby - Captain’s Rest, Glasgow, Tue 1 Sep 2009

3 Sep 2009

Much hype has been touted about Brooklyn boys Amazing Baby being the next MGMT – they graduated from the same school, supported them on their last tour, apparently sound the same. This gig might have been the chance to see the Next Big Thing.

Girls - Album

3 Sep 2009

Love is in the air and the 60s are in the chords as Girls come over all romantic in their debut album. Looking as if they’ve raided the dressing up boxes of MGMT for outfits, and the genres of rockabilly, 60s girl groups and surf pop for sounds, Chet…

Songs of the Year 2008

11 Dec 2008

‘Skinny Love’ Bon Iver One man’s heartbreak becomes our joy from the album of the year. ‘Like the Rest of Us’ Atmosphere The leftfield dwelling purists may sneer but this is beguiling, introspective hip hop brilliance. ‘Run Run’ Those Dancing Days…

Gigs of the year 2008

11 Dec 2008

It was packed but we loved the Electric Feel of MGMT in February (Beat Club), while in March Casiotone for the Painfully Alone ’s (Nice N Sleazy’s) geeky synthesiser ballads charmed us, The Twilight Sad (King Tut’s) moved us, and Neil Young (The…

T in the Park - Up-and-comers

3 Jul 2008

MGMT What Psychedelic synth-pop duo from Brooklyn Unique Selling Point They sound wonderfully woozy on record but the MGMT live experience reveals a harder, darker and much more edgy side to the band. Imagine full-on swampy rock colliding with…

MGMT

8 May 2008

PSYCHEDELIC ROCK The Liquid Room, Edinburgh, Fri 9 May A lot of bands take themselves too seriously, but not MGMT. For evidence, get yourself to YouTube and check out the video for fantastic recent single ‘Time to Pretend’, a song satirising the…

MGMT, Glasvegas and Jeff Mills among new acts unveiled for T in the Park

22 Apr 2008

A bunch of new acts have been named for T in the Park 2008, with Detroit techno auteur Jeff Mills ' appearance in the Slam Tent one of the most widely anticipated. Also on the bill are old punks The Stranglers and Sam Duckworth's Get Cape. Wear Cape.

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

27 Mar 2008

ROCK (Columbia) After first encountering this New York outfit making their TV debut on The Letterman Show wearing long black capes and romping though their breakthrough tune ‘Time to Pretend’, MGMT have only gone up even further in our estimation with…

Singles & Downloads

14 Feb 2008

The trouble with being trendy and much touted is that, at some point, you’ve got to produce the goods. Indie ugly mugs The Cribs singularly fail to do so with ‘I’m a Realist’ (Wichita) •, a tuneless, insipid, po-faced sub-Razorlight jangle. Ditto for…