MGMT announce their fifth studio album, Loss Of Life
MGMT – AKA the duo of Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser – have announced their forthcoming fifth studio album, Loss Of Life, alongside the first single, "Mother Nature".
Loss Of Life, is the long-awaited followup to 2018’s Little Dark Age. Speaking of the album's lead single, the band say it “outlines the archetypical MGMT mythology of one hero attempting to get the other hero to come on the journey that they ‘must’ go on. One part sounds like Oasis.”
The accompanying 2n-produced animated video for “Mother Nature” was directed by another MGMT longtime collaborator, Jordan Fish, who has worked with the group since Oracular Spectacular. In the clip, two animal friends named Dog and Turtle team up to take down an evil pet collector. “I hope the story makes people happy and feel connected to family, friends and the animal kingdom as well,” says Fish.
MGMT worked on the ten-track Loss Of Life with producer Patrick Wimberly (Beyoncé, Lil Yachty) and longtime collaborator Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, Spoon), who mixed the album as he has done on the group’s past four full-lengths.
Christine and the Queens appear on the song “Dancing in Babylon” – the first-ever feature on an MGMT album, which has additional production supplied by Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never), Brian Burton (Danger Mouse) and James Richardson, with Miles A. Robinson serving as associate producer and engineer.
“All joking aside (never!), we are very proud of this album and the fact that it was a relatively painless birth after a lengthy gestation period, and are happy to be releasing this baby into the world with Mom+Pop,” MGMT says. “Musically speaking, we are running at around 20% adult contemporary and no more than this, please.”
Tracklist:
- Loss Of Life (part 2)
- Mother Nature
- Dancing In Babylon (featuring Christine and the Queens)
- People In The Streets
- Bubblegum Dog
- Nothing To Declare
- Nothing Changes
- Phradie's Song
- I Wish I Was Joking
- Loss Of Life
Loss Of Life is set for release on 23 February via Mom + Pop, and is available to pre-order.
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