The psychedelic duo continue to plumb digital-age paranoia on their fourth full-length
Can MGMT see the future?
Take the colorfully baroque funk of new track T.S.L.A.M.P.
It seems like it just keeps getting worse, like constantly.
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I hate that I cant go to the bathroom without checking my phone.
I have it by me when Im going to sleep and I look at it when I wake up.
But withLittle Dark Age, MGMT seems to have exorcised some of their fears.
Weve lived through more apocalypses, Goldwasser explains matter-of-factly as he and VanWyngarden dig into catfish sandwiches.
Adds VanWyngardeen: This one was more having fun with how shitty things can be.
Its [title is] negative, but the fact that its diminutive that its thelittledark age is helpful.
Its not permanent dark age!
There was an element that was a reaction to success but it wasnt a f you.
That was the thing that we really needed, Goldwasser says.
The last album kind of ended up being freeform structurally a lot of ways, VanWyngarden recalls.
This time it was a slightly more focused attempt to write more structured songs.
Weve stuck with what felt right to us and doing what we wanted to do, VanWyngarden says.
We wanted to make music for the freaks out there.
And even ifLittle Dark Agedabbles in digital-age paranoia, the duo remains cautiously optimistic about the future.
Im kind of into the sort of Phillip K. Dick metamorphosis of humanity thing.
Maybe well become something better through all this I dont know!
