MGMT by MGMT
MGMT is the self-titled third album by American psychedelic rock band MGMT released on September 17, 2013. The album features 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.
MGMT’s music has always pinballed between accessibility and experiment, pop and psychedelia—a tension that has produced some of the catchiest, most synapse-stretching music of the young century. Reining in the freak-outs of 2013’s <i>MGMT</i>, the band’s fourth album plumbs their (relatively) accessible side, refracting ’80s-style synth-pop (“Little Dark Age”, “One Thing Left to Try”) and ’60s jangle folk (“When You Die”) through a warped, surrealistic sense of humour—a sound at once cheerful and violent, eerie and inviting, light and thrillingly dark.
