MGMT//Flash Delirium
One of 2010’s most eagerly anticipated new releases, ‘Congratulations’ on Monday 12th April in the UK, he successor to MGMT’s ‘Oracular Spectacular’, the 2008 debut album which established the band’s potential as a visionary force in pop music.
Congratulations offered MGMT the opportunity to work with a couple of their musical idols and influences including album co-producer Sonic Boom (Pete Kember) and Royal Trux front-woman Jennifer Herrema, who contributed guest vocals. ”We’ve been lucky enough to meet and work with some of our all-time musical heroes,” Andrew says, marveling at MGMT’s good collaborative karma. ”It’s so great to be around such amazing and unusual musical minds.”
Ben and Andrew first met the mythic Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3, E.A.R., Spectrum) at a Spectrum show in London in February 2009 and wound up onstage jamming with the band on “Suicide,” a vintage Spacemen 3 track paying homage to another light in MGMT’s musical pantheon.
MGMT have become an international festival favourite with performances at South By Southwest, Coachella, Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo in the States and the Glastonbury extravaganza in the UK. The band have toured with Beck, Yeasayer and Of Montreal, among others, while becoming a headline concert attraction in its own right. MGMT are confirmed to appear at the 2010 Coachella and Bamboozle festivals. UK shows I’m sure will be announced very, very soon. In the mean time however, as the first teaser from the new album the band are giving away a free Mp3 of new track ‘Flash Delirium’.
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