MGMT

i remember going on a music crusade via myspace last summer and stumbling on these two electro rockers from the US, and i didnt really think anything of them. all you could hear was a sawtooth synth over a basic drum beat, which wasnt really appealing to me.

but after having read a recent nme article i decided to go and check them out again, and since they have been signed, they have cleaned up their sound and have just released their first album 'oracular spectacular'. i now have their record on repeat. im sure the rest of the tracks will grow on me, but at the moment, i would suggest listening to 'kids' and their new single 'time to pretend'.

also, they have come up with quite a quirky new music video for their song 'elecric feel'. basically you have to download it which is simple from their myspace, and your given a set of buttons and as the song plays you can choose camera angles, backgrounds, whether odd characters appear, what instruments they play, etc.. so there are literally billions of ways the video can look, and all that without any lag.

i cant really pin them down and say what their music is like, but its kind of a mix of techno/nu rave/country/80's. actually reading that back doesnt sound too appealing, but just give 'em a listen :)

http://www.myspace.com/mgmt

time to pretend
kids
electric feel