Dude, MGMT

MGMT - Hot Love Drama

Are you or your lover at risk of contracting MGMT?

Any of the following symptoms may be a sign that you and your lover have contracted MGMT and need to stop whatever you are doing and chilll: a sudden retro-appreciation of psychedelic imagery, a lyrically nostalgic attitude towards childhood, liberal positions toward drug consumption and promiscuis sex, and an inability to feel shame at painting and dressing yourself like a 4 year old again.

Yes, 4 out of every 5 college students reportedly have tried or are chronic users of MGMT. So far, the only known cure for MGMT is to smoke weed, enhancing all of the its best qualities while making you too high to care about the shortcomings of the other 7 songs on the album.

This knowledge was gained through a recent controversial study done by a team of MGMT experts conducting an experiment in a college dorm room. Those involved in the study have recently issued this statement: "Well, the towel did stop some of it from getting through the door, but it still smells in the hallway. Wait, what was the question again? Oh and do you have any Febreeze? Actually, whatevs, fuck it. Turn off the lights dude, that visualizer is siiiiick."

MGMT's next album is set for a January 2010 release. Until then, there are only grainy YouTube videos of them performing new songs during their handful of sold-out summer tour dates. This is a video of them performing the title track off their new album, Congratulations.


New material aside, I haven't really tired of their old stuff yet. Electric Feel and Time to Pretend still never fail to get groovy. And the opening keyboard notes of Kids continue to echo in the eardrums of this generation - a melody that I think may very well define who Young America was at a certain point in history. So light one up for MGMT, man, but take only what you need from it.