Biography

Finding an unlikely middle point between Suicide's hostile proto-electro punk art noise and the sardonic, studied, but ultimately pop-friendly sound of the Flaming Lips, Ben Goldwasser and Andrew Van Wyngarden started MGMT as a duo of electroclash musical terrorists but quickly transmogrified into an eclectic, brainy pop group with heavy psychedelic overtones. MGMT released an electro-rock EP, Time to Pretend, on the tiny Cantora Records in 2005. Good reviews, especially for the title track, and extensive touring brought MGMT to the attention of Columbia Records, which signed the duo in 2006. Regrouping in Brooklyn, MGMT enlisted producer Dave Fridmann to create the entirely different-sounding Oracular Spectacular, a far more musically expansive album. Congratulations, recorded with Sonic Boom, was released in 2010. ~ Stewart Mason

Top Tracks

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• All We Ever Wanted Was Everything

• Can't See Through It

• Electric Feel

• Flash Delirium

• It's Working

• Ocean

• Siberian Breaks

• Stop & Smell The Roses

• Time To Pretend

• Weekend Wars

Discography

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• Late Night Tales: MGMT

  Late Night Tales

  2011

• Congratulations

  Columbia

  2010

• Oracular Spectacular

  Red Ink/columbia

  2008