MGMT (Photo: Live4ever Media)
MGMT‘s third, self-titled album has been packaged up for release in September.
The duo of Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden follow-up 2010’s ‘Congratulations‘ on September 16th (a day later in North America) after recording sessions at Dave Fridmann’s Tarbox Road Studios in Buffalo, New York.
Speaking about the album earlier this year, Goldwasser said new material was shaping up to be ‘even weirder’ than its immediate predecessor, and was taking its inspiration from Aphex Twin and more general house music.
“We’re not trying to make music that everyone understands the first time they hear it,” Goldwasser said, while VanWyngarden added their record label has, “No illusion on their part that we’re going to turn into a Top 40 band. That’s kind of comforting.”
‘MGMT’ tracklist:
‘Alien Days
Cool Song No. 2
Mystery Disease
Introspection
Your Life Is a Lie
A Good Sadness
Astro-Mancy
I Love You Too, Death
Plenty Of Girls In the Sea
An Orphan Of Fortune’
North American Tour Dates:
July 3 Milwaukee, WI Summerfest/BMO Harris Bank
July 5-7 Kelowna, CA Keloha Music & Arts Festival
July 9 Quebec, ON Festival D’Ete International De Quebec
July 12 Lansing, MI Common Ground Music Festival
July 13 Cincinnati, OH Bunbury Music Festival
August 24 Monterey, CA Monterey County Fairgrounds
August 25 Los Angeles, CA FYF Festival
August 26 Las Vegas, NV The Pool at The Cosmopolitan
August 29 Davis, CA Mondavi Center
August 31 Bend, OR Les Schwab Amphitheatre
September 1 Troutdale, OR Edgefield Amphitheatre
September 2 Seattle, WA Bumbershoot Festival
September 4 Boise, ID Knitting Factory
September 5 Salt Lake City, UT Twilight Concert Series
September 6 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium
European Tour Dates (Guards supporting):
September 26 Cologne, Germany Live Music Hall
September 27 Brussels, Belgium AB
September 29 Stockholm, Sweden Cirkus
September 30 Oslo, Norway SentrumScene
October 1 Copenhagen, Denmark Vega Main Hall
October 3 Berlin, Germany Astra Kulturhaus
October 4 Vienna, Austria Gasometer
October 5 Munich, Germany Kesselhaus
October 6 Zurich, Switzerland Komplex 457
October 8 Paris, France Olympia
October 9 Hamburg, Germany Docks
October 10 Utrecht, Netherlands Vredenburg Leidsche
October 12 Glasgow, UK 02 ABC
October 13 Wolverhampton, UK Civic Hall
October 14 Manchester, UK O2 Apollo Manchester
October 16 London, UK Forum
October 19 Dublin, Ireland Olympia Theatre
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