“Little Dark Age brings MGMT back into full, funky, third-eye view”
“NY pop duo MGMT executes a fantastic return to form with the sounds of synth pop on Little Dark Age.”
“It’s over 10 years since MGMT released ‘Oracular Spectacular’, a poptastic glitterball of an album that spawned hit singles ‘Time To Pretend’, ‘Kids’ and ‘Electric Feel’. Three years later, Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser baffled fair-weather fans with the acid-jazz soup that was 2010’s ‘Congratulations’. And the odyssey continued: 2013’s ‘MGMT’ was an inaccessible curio, implying the band ”
“MGMT’s fourth album marks a shift in tactics. Abandoning the belabored excess of their last two albums, they opt for streamlined synth-pop.”
“Its first half features some of the group's sweetest pop confections since those massive singles, while its second delves into the muggy Barrett-isms of their more recent work. ”
“Over the last few years, MGMT have been a band in malaise. A decade on from the success of their 2007 debut ‘Oracular Spectacular’ they’re (admittedly) still recovering from the lukewarm response that followed their unexpectedly experimental follow-ups. ‘Congratulations’ in 2010 and the self-titled ‘MGMT’ in 2013 both dispensed with the woozy, psychedelic pop appeal that elevated uni mates Andrew ”
