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Melomania (A Mixtape For The Year End)

Dorothy T. — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 02:00:55 +0000

A mixtape we create for you to celebrate the end of 2013, so many things happened this year and how the time flies so fast mixing the bad and the good, the worst and the best. We’ve crossed continents to celebrate the festivity of musics and culture, therefore we want to share with our reader how we felt and how we’re looking forward to improve with our reader for the upcoming year! Cheers x

Track listing:

1. Mgmt – Alien Days
2. Spiritualized – Ladies & Gentleman We Are Floating In Space
3. The Shoes – Time To Dance
4. Born Ruffians – Ocean’s Deep
5. Poolside – Harvest Moon
6. Dan Croll – In/out
7. Pillar Point – Diamond Mine
8. Swim Deep – She Changes The Weather
9. Bayou – Varsity Jacket
10. Paradise Animals – Coastal lines
11. The Holidays – Broken Bones
12. Jon Hopkins feat Purity Ring – Breathe This Air

Veering Off-Course with MGMT’s MGMT

Shafira Desliara — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 16:03:36 +0000

The long wait is over. MGMT’s third studio album is officially released today.

Of course, for those of you who have streamed the full album through the band’s website, the wait has been over for more than a week. In case you missed it, MGMT offered a stream of the new album, the self-titled MGMT, on their website. It’s also accompanied by a visual treat called ‘The Optimizer.’

In their latest interview with the Los Angeles Times, published earlier this September, Benjamin Goldwasser himself admitted that this album sounds less and less pop than its predecessors. And you’ll find that he wasn’t exaggerating things. You can barely make out the chord progressions in each song. Everything is just so thick with layers.

The first track, Alien Days, is no stranger to us since it was released last April, even though having been listening to it for months doesn’t necessarily make the song sound any less odd and unconventional, because that’s just how MGMT do things. Front-man Andrew Vanwyngarden had explained the song as a feeling when “a parasitic alien is in your head, controlling things.” And it seems like it really is what the song does to you. The parasitic alien from the song has now taken hold of your subconscious to prepare and then navigates you as you listen to the rest of the album. The slightly spacey tune of Alien Days also gives you the illusion of taking off to deep space, setting off to the farthest end of the galaxy.

The reverberating Cool Song No. 2 is fuzz-toned and cryptic, while Your Life Is A Lie is no doubt going to be the sing-a-long anthem in the upcoming MGMT gigs. It’s a garage rock chuck, sounding like a jumbled, schizophrenic musical masterpiece. And then there’s Astro-Mancy with its smooth, tribal freak out.

While there’s not enough taste of psychedelia heaven in it, MGMT still has the lush, rich, and thoughtful electronic tone that distinct it from the typical chart-topper electronic music. It’s heavy with hallucinogenic vibe, resulting in the album sounding like a trippy, notional tune—a different sound from MGMT’s most widely known hits like Time to Pretend or Kids (of which are psychedelic dance rock songs that are easier for the ears to listen). It’s a fact that would confuse the people who are still reeling over those two tracks, and get them all bummed out. But to fans of the band, whimsical and outlandish is how they identify the band as. They bask in the bizarreness of the music, sometimes even longing for more dose of odd and quaint.

MGMT is a genuine and well-thought-out quirkiness. It’s a masterpiece of the wacky, an acid-induced whizzing wonder; it’s how the psychedelic bands from the 60′s would probably have sounded like if they had the same technology and equipments as the ones MGMT are presented with today. Unlike Oracular Spectacular and Congratulations, you can’t just pick out one song from MGMT and listen to it individually. You will have to listen to all of the tracks to even pick up on the abstract beauty of this album. Each song feels like a continuation from the other; it’s like reading a book—you’ll have to read all of the chapters to really get it.

August New Entry

Andriani N Pratiwi — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 13:06:29 +0000

We are back for #MixtapeMonday! For this week, it’s time to freshen up your playlist with our compilation of 8 new-entries which have just been released this August! For the ones pulling an all-nighter, the excitingly upbeat tempo of this playlist will keep you up in the mood. So, enjoy the mix

Tracklist:

1. The Weeknd – Love in The Sky
2. MGMT Your LIfe Is A Lie
3. John Newman – Love me again
4. Drake – Hold On We’re Going Home
5. Arctic Monkeys – Why’d you only call me when you’re high?
6. Eugene McGuinness – Fairlight
7. TV on The Radio – Mercy
8. Babyshambles- Nothing comes to nothing

MGMT New Album Cover

Shafira Desliara — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:57:45 +0000

MGMT has just recently released what could be the cover for their new album via their Twitter page and their official website. But instead of a regular picture, you’ll find it’s actually a .gif picture containing random shots of the sky and what looks like to be a corner of a town, as well as shots of frontman Andrew Vanwyngarden mowing the lawn and keyboardist Benjamin Goldwasser staring at a birdcage.

So what do you think? Could one of the shots from the .gif end up being the real album cover, or is it actually a sneak peak from a music video for one of the songs from the album? We know that they have shot a video for Your Life Is A Lie, directed by Tom Kuntz, and were scheduled to shoot a video for Cool Song No. 2 this summer.

MGMT’s third album, the self-titled MGMT, is set to be released on September 17th, 2013.