MGMT officially announces new album, Congratulations
Based on the actions of recent months (e.g. the debuting of new songs followed by lack of public appearances), it’s no secret that MGMT has been held up in the studio, working on the followup to 2007’s Oracular Spectacular. And come early 2010, the duo of Andrew James VanWyngarden and Ben David-Martin Goldwasser will unveil just what they came up when they drop Congratulations.
As the San Francisco Examiner reports (via an interview with VanWyngarden), the album was recorded in Malibu, produced by Spacemen 3’s Peter “Sonic Boom” Kember, and features the vocal talents of Jennifer Herrema of Royal Trux/RTX. As for the actual content? VanWyngarden describes it as “pretty dark.”
“It’s us trying to deal with all the craziness that’s been going on since our last album took off. Sometimes it just doesn’t feel natural.”
Now, here’s where we can utilize the aforementioned “debuting of new songs.” Check out two new tracks, “Congratulations” and “It’s Working”, both which have been performed live for a while now and will probably find their way onto Congratulations, below.
We’ll keep you updated as more details become available.
Completely crying over their popularity . . . can’t wait for the new album! I’ll be the first to buy it! XD
First song sounds like The Band, looking forward to their new album
yea i heard a couple of their new songs at bonnaroo when they performed…i liked them but they are a switch of a gear from oracular spectacular
Heard this on the radio this morning! I also agree completely with Anon. Will be interesting to see what they mean by “pretty dark.”
time to find out if these guys were a one album wonder or not
Oct 22nd, 2009 at 9:38 am
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