American rock band
MGMT
(
)
[1]
is an American rock band formed in 2002 in
Middletown, Connecticut
. It was founded by singers and multi-instrumentalists
Andrew VanWyngarden
and
Ben Goldwasser
.
Originally signed to
Cantora Records
by the nascent label's co-founder, NYU undergrad Will Griggs, MGMT later signed with
Columbia
and
RED Ink
in 2006
[2]
[3]
[4]
and released their debut album
Oracular Spectacular
the next year. After the release of
Oracular Spectacular
, Richardson, Berman and Matthew Asti joined the core band in the studio for
Congratulations
,
which was released on April 13, 2010.
[5]
In January 2011, they began work on their
eponymous third studio album
.
[6]
It was released on September 17, 2013, and was released as an early exclusive on
Rdio
on September 9, 2013.
[7]
The group's fourth studio album, titled
Little Dark Age
, was released in February 2018 and marked the end of their contract with Columbia. Beginning in 2019, the duo began producing music independent of a label for the first time since 2006. In late 2019, the two released a new song called "In the Afternoon" as their first fully self-produced single.
[8]
On October 5, 2007,
Spin
named MGMT "Artist of the Day".
[9]
In November
Rolling Stone
pegged MGMT as a top ten "Artist to Watch" in 2008
[10]
and went on to name
Oracular Spectacular
number 494 in their top 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. The band placed ninth in the BBC's
Sound of 2008 Top Ten Poll
.
[11]
They were also named as
Last.fm
's most played new artist of 2008 in their
Best of 2008
list.
[12]
At the
51st Grammy Awards
, the
Justice
remix of "Electric Feel" won the
Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical
.
[13]
The group was nominated for the
Grammy Award for Best New Artist
and "
Kids
" was nominated for
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
at the
52nd Grammy Awards
.
[14]
History
[
edit
]
Formation (2002?2005)
[
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]
Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden formed the band while attending
Wesleyan University
during their freshman year.
[15]
"We weren't trying to start a band," remarked Goldwasser. "We were just hanging out and showing each other music that we liked." VanWyngarden named
Talking Heads
and
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
(OMD) as artists who are "definitely in [their] blood".
[16]
They experimented with
noise rock
and
electronica
before settling on what Paco Alvarez of
Spin
calls "their current brand of shape-shifting psychedelic pop."
[3]
In 2002, the duo attended the inaugural
Bonnaroo
together as fans.
[17]
The band formed under the name The Management and released two demo albums,
We (Don't) Care
and
Climbing to New Lows
, under that name; but since the name was already being used by another band, they later changed it to MGMT, a
disemvowelment
of the original band name. While at Wesleyan, they were schoolmates of
Francis and the Lights
, with whom they have since toured.
[18]
VanWyngarden and Goldwasser graduated in 2005 and toured extensively in support of the
Time to Pretend EP
released in the same year, opening for indie pop band
of Montreal
.
[19]
Oracular Spectacular
(2006?2009)
[
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]
In the autumn of 2006, Maureen Kenny signed the band to Columbia Records.
[20]
[21]
When the band received a call from the A&R department of
Columbia Records
saying they were interested in their music, they thought it was a joke.
[22]
The duo recorded with
Flaming Lips
/
Sleater-Kinney
music producer
Dave Fridmann
in 2007 for their major label debut,
Oracular Spectacular
.
[23]
MGMT opened for Of Montreal on tour in autumn 2007 as a five-piece touring band including Matthew Asti (bass), James Richardson (drums), and Hank Sullivant (guitar).
[24]
In November 2007, they performed for the first time in Europe, supporting the band Samantha and
The Courteeners
at
Koko
in London, England.
[25]
After March 2008, Hank Sullivant left the band to pursue his own band, Kuroma. Will Berman joined as the new drummer, James Richardson switched from drums to guitar, and Matthew Asti remained on bass.
In June 2008 the band supported
Radiohead
on the
Manchester
date of their world tour
[26]
and went on a headline tour of the UK during November 2008, playing at venues such as
Manchester Academy
and
Shepherd's Bush Empire
. MGMT opened for
M.I.A.
on the
Vassar College
date of
her 2008 tour
,
[27]
and also played several shows with
Beck
during his 2008 tour. They appeared at the 2008 and 2009 editions of the
Bonnaroo Music Festival
.
Bruce Springsteen
was in attendance during their 2009 Bonnaroo late-night set, which followed his headlining appearance on What Stage. They also toured Australia with a headlining spot on the
Meredith Music Festival
line-up. The group played a show at the Virgin Music Festival on the
Toronto Islands
on September 6, 2008, playing nine songs off their
Oracular Spectacular
album. They also played the 2008
Street Scene festival
in
San Diego, California
. On February 27, 2009, MGMT performed alongside Spectrum at The Dome in
Finsbury Park
. MGMT also played another show in Australia at the 2009
Splendour in the Grass Festival
. They headlined this music festival along with other well known bands such as
Bloc Party
,
The Flaming Lips
,
Happy Mondays
, and
Jane's Addiction
.
[28]
MGMT opened for
Paul McCartney
, an admitted fan,
[29]
at
Fenway Park
in
Boston, Massachusetts
, on August 5 and 6, 2009. On August 15, 2009, MGMT played in
Hamburg
, Germany, at the Dockville Festival and performed several songs from their upcoming album. MGMT was one of the headlining bands for the Treasure Island Music Festival on Treasure Island in San Francisco, California, on October 17, 2009.
Congratulations
(2010?2011)
[
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]
MGMT's
Congratulations
was released on April 13, 2010. The band, including Matthew Asti, James Richardson, and Will Berman from the live band, spent the summer of 2009 in
Malibu, California
, recording the album with
Pete Kember
(a.k.a. Sonic Boom), formerly of
Spacemen 3
and Spectrum, serving as producer/guru, and long-time friend Billy Bennett (also an NCAA record-holding kicker for the University of Georgia), as engineer. MGMT originally suggested that they might not release any singles from the album.
[30]
By July 2010, however, four single releases from the album had been confirmed. The album cover art for
Congratulations
was created for MGMT by
Anthony Ausgang
and the overall design of the packaging is by Josh Cheuse of Sony Entertainment. On March 9, 2010, MGMT released the song "
Flash Delirium
" for free download on their official website. On March 20, the band allowed users to stream their new album from their website.
MGMT started their Congratulations Tour on April 12, 2010, in San Francisco, California, at
The Fillmore
. They performed on April 23 at
Brown University
's
Spring Weekend
; on April 27 at
Yale University
's Spring Fling; on April 30 at the
University of New Hampshire
's Spring Climax; and on May 1 at
Fordham University
's Spring Weekend. They performed on
Saturday Night Live
on April 24, 2010, and on the
Late Show with David Letterman
on May 12 to promote their new album, and on June 11, MGMT played their largest headlining show anywhere in the world with a sold-out, 9,500 capacity gig at the
Red Rocks Amphitheatre
in
Morrison, Colorado
.
[31]
On June 25, MGMT performed on
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
, and on July 23, they were the musical guests on
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
.
On August 25, MGMT released a music video for "Congratulations", the third video of their second album.
[32]
MGMT was one of the third tier bands for the 2010
Coachella Festival
in
Indio, California
. The event draws nearly 120,000 attendees annually. On October 31, 2010, the band performed for the Voodoo Experience in
New Orleans, Louisiana
. The band decided to dress as the main characters from
Scooby-Doo
for Halloween; Andrew dressed up as
Daphne
and Ben dressed up as
Velma
. They headlined at
Fun Fun Fun Fest
which was held at Waterloo Park in
Austin, Texas
, on November 6, 2010. MGMT had some hits with their performance on the
Dr Oz Show
The performance was the last show in the US for MGMT in 2010. Their first 2011 gig was at
Mar del Plata
, Argentina, in front of a crowd of more than 40,000 on the beach in a free event which they headlined.
[33]
MGMT began their first Asian tour on February 22, 2011.
[34]
On September 22, 2011, MGMT performed the
Pink Floyd
song "
Lucifer Sam
" during
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
'
s "Pink Floyd Week".
[35]
MGMT
(2011?2014)
[
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]
In January 2012, MGMT confirmed in an interview with
Intercourse Magazine
that they had started work on their third album, with VanWyngarden stating that he had written five songs.
[36]
On February 27, 2012, MGMT began recording the album with
Dave Fridmann
at his Tarbox Road Studios.
[37]
In March 2012, VanWyngarden said that MGMT will perform new songs on their upcoming shows in Latin America.
[38]
On March 30, 2012, the band premiered a new song, entitled "Alien Days", at a show in
Bogota
, Colombia.
[39]
The band performed on August 3, 2012, in
Montreal
,
Quebec
,
Canada
at
Osheaga
, and on August 5, 2012, in
Bethlehem
, Pennsylvania at
Musikfest
.
[
citation needed
]
In January 2013,
NME
and
Rolling Stone
published an interview in which the band announced that the album was tentatively scheduled for a June 2013 release.
[40]
As of March 2013, the process of recording the album at Tarbox Road Studios with Fridmann was near completion.
[41]
On April 20, 2013, the band released the studio version of "
Alien Days
".
[42]
The band then embarked on a spring tour, followed by fall/autumn and winter tour dates for
North America
.
[43]
[44]
[45]
Following VanWyngarden's shoulder surgery in mid-2013, former touring member Hank Sullivant rejoined the band to play live guitar for the remainder of 2013. Sullivant played with VanWyngarden when they were in high school and is in the band Kuroma, whose next album is produced by Goldwasser.
[46]
The
self-titled album
was released September 17, 2013.
[47]
An exclusive early release of the album, along with a full-length music video called "Optimizer", was available from the
Rdio
music service on September 9, 2013.
[7]
In June 2013, the band performed at the FireFly Music Festival in
Dover, Delaware
. They performed at the
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
in April 2014 before embarking on a European tour later in June 2014 and performing at the
Glastonbury Festival
in
England
. In July 2014, they were nominated for a
VMA
in the category "Best Editing" for their music video "
Your Life is a Lie
".
[48]
[49]
After wrapping up touring behind their self-titled album, Goldwasser relocated to LA.
[50]
In an interview at Falls Festival Marion Bay in 2014, the band announced that they would take a short break and come back stronger with a new sound.
Little Dark Age
(2015?2019)
[
edit
]
Will Berman stated in an interview with
HitFix
in April 2015 that "We've been taking a little break I guess. We've been at it for years at this point. There's more to come." He didn't want to speak for either Ben or Andrew on when there would be a new album from the group.
[51]
On December 26, 2015, the band tweeted announcing that they would return in 2016.
[52]
The band began working on an untitled new album in October 2016.
[53]
On May 8, 2017, the band released a teaser video on Instagram alongside the title of the forthcoming album as
Little Dark Age
, following a series of cryptic tweets the week prior. On June 21, the band revealed that their next album had been mastered.
[54]
On October 17, the band released
"Little Dark Age"
, the title track from their new album and their first single in four years.
[55]
"When You Die" was released as the second single on December 12, 2017. The third single from the record, "Hand It Over", was released on January 5, 2018.
Rolling Stone
magazine published on January 25, 2018, an interview with MGMT regarding their fourth album
Little Dark Age
. MGMT admitted that their two previous albums were so poorly received that they thought they could never have reached peak popularity as they had with the release of their first album. Since their separation, the two core members began working long distances on the album via e-mail.
Little Dark Age
was in part shaped by this unique, distanced relationship between the two musicians, who later decided to meet and jointly work together again.
The band has explained that
Little Dark Age
is both an expression of surprise and dismay to the current political and social climate?particularly the election of
Donald Trump as President of the United States
?with an occasional reference to their personal lives. Of the election, VanWyngarden stated, "We were like, 'Wow, is it actually possible for the most impossible thing to happen?' [...] Apparently, we were more inspired to write pop music after evil took over the world." Touring guitarist James Richardson also provided inspiration, which resulted in the song 'James' being dedicated to celebrating the band's friendship. The album was released on February 9, 2018, and followed with a North American tour, part of the
Little Dark Age
Tour
.
[56]
Going independent, New record label,
Loss of Life
, and hiatus (2019?present)
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]
On November 22, 2019, the band performed a new song titled "In the Afternoon" in
Las Vegas
,
Nevada
. On December 10, a teaser for the studio version of the song was posted on the band's Instagram page. On December 11, "In the Afternoon" was officially released as a single alongside a music video created by the band. The release marks their first after departing from Columbia Records and the first on their independent label, MGMT Records. On March 20, 2020, the band released another new song, titled "As You Move Through the World".
In June 2021, the band released a statement on
Twitter
and Instagram hinting that they were working on new music.
[57]
[58]
On November 11, 2022, the band released their 2011 performance at the
Guggenheim Museum
as a live album titled
11?11?11
exactly 11 years after being performed.
On January 17, 2023, MGMT announced they will release another album in 2023 and return to touring after nearly four years. A photo shared by VanWyngarden on September 21 included the words "elf of soils", which was interpreted as an anagram for
Loss of Life
.
[59]
On October 24, 2023, attendees at
Pitchblack Playback
's album listening session in the dark at Riverside Studios in London for
Oracular Spectacular
and
Little Dark Age
were given a free flexidisc known as
Bubblegum Dog
, featuring a cryptic spoken word monologue
[60]
which fans on Reddit speculated hints at new music and referenced an unreleased track whose title was seen on a whiteboard in the background of an image the band released during the making of
Little Dark
Age.
On October 31, 2023, MGMT released the first single from their sixth album
Loss of Life
titled "Mother Nature". This release coincided with the band confirming the title of the album, revealing the track list, and confirming the final release date of the album.
[61]
On November 29, the band released the album's second single "Bubblegum Dog", which does not include the monologue featured on the flexidisk given by the band in October. "Nothing to Declare", the third single from the album, was released on January 10, 2024. On February 20, MGMT released the album's fourth single, "Dancing in Babylon" featuring
Christine and the Queens
.
Musical style and influences
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]
MGMT's musical style has been characterized as a range of
pop
and
rock
genres, including
indie pop
,
[62]
[63]
synth-pop
,
[64]
[65]
psychedelic pop
,
[3]
indie rock
,
[66]
[67]
[68]
psychedelic rock
,
[69]
neo-psychedelia
,
[70]
and
electronic rock
.
[71]
Paco Alvarez of
Spin
described their sound as a "brand of shape-shifting psychedelic pop"
[3]
and Gavin Haynes of
the Guardian
describes MGMT as being "between pop and
experimental
".
[63]
MGMT regularly covered a
Magazine
song "Burst" when touring in 2011.
[72]
Legal proceedings
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]
In January 2009, MGMT demanded compensation from the French
Union for a Popular Movement
(UMP) Party. The UMP, headed by
Nicolas Sarkozy
, the former
President of France
, had used the song "
Kids
" without permission at a party conference and in two online videos in 2008. In an official statement, MGMT remarked that "the fact that the UMP used our song without permission while simultaneously pushing anti-piracy legislation seemed a little wack."
[73]
The UMP initially offered a symbolic compensation of
€
1 to MGMT, but the band refused that offer. In April 2009, the parties settled out of court, and the UMP agreed to pay MGMT around €2,500 for legal fees and €30,000 (US $39,050) for copyright infringement. MGMT donated this money to artists' rights organizations.
[74]
Collaborations
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]
They have collaborated with rapper
Kid Cudi
, and are featured on the single "
Pursuit of Happiness
" from his album
Man on the Moon: The End of Day
. For the 2010 MTV VMA's Kid Cudi was nominated for Best Hip-Hop video for "Pursuit of Happiness". They also collaborated on the track "Worm Mountain" on
The Flaming Lips
'
Embryonic
.
On September 4, 2009,
Beck
announced his second
Record Club
covers album,
Songs of Leonard Cohen
. MGMT contributed, alongside
Devendra Banhart
, Andrew Stockdale of
Wolfmother
and Binki Shapiro of
Little Joy
.
During the production of
Congratulations
in 2009, VanWyngarden and Goldwasser met with
Lou Reed
, the former lead singer and guitarist of
The Velvet Underground
, about contributing vocals to "Lady Dada's Nightmare". VanWyngarden recalls, "he pretty much said it didn't need it. And then he also talked about how we didn't need managers."
[75]
In 2010, they provided guest vocals on "Call from the Bank" on rapper
Nipsey Hussle
's mixtape
The Marathon
, which would be their last collaborative effort for ten years until 2020, when they contributed vocals to "The Divine Chord" and "Solitary Ceremonies" alongside guitar work by
Johnny Marr
on electronic group
The Avalanches
' third studio album
We Will Always Love You
.
In 2012, the group covered "Future Games" by
Fleetwood Mac
on the tribute album
Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac
, produced by
Randall Poster
.
[76]
Band members
[
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]
- Andrew VanWyngarden
? lead vocals, lead and rhythm guitars, keyboards, bass guitar, drums, percussion (2004?present)
- Benjamin Goldwasser
? vocals, keyboards, sampling, rhythm guitar, percussion (2004?present)
Touring musicians
[
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]
- James Richardson ? lead guitar, keyboards, backing vocals (2008?present), drums (2007?2008)
- Will Berman ? drums, percussion (2005, 2008?present), harmonica, backing vocals (2008?present)
- Simon O’Connor ? bass guitar, backing vocals (2017?present)
Former touring musicians
[
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]
- Matthew Asti ? bass guitar, backing vocals (2007?2017)
- Hank Sullivant
? lead guitar, keyboards (2007?2008; 2013?2014)
Timeline
[
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]
Discography
[
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]
Awards and nominations
[
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]
References
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]
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