MGMT are preparing to release their third full-length album, which is self-titled, on Sept. 17. Originating members Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser recorded “MGMT” with producer Dave Fridmann, who also co-produced 2008″s “Oracular Spectacular” and 2010″s “Congratulations.”
The 10-track Columbia album includes one cover, of Faine Jade’s “Introspection,” which “directly mirrors the duo’s encompassing surrealist view of the everyday,” according to a release.
MGMT dropped the album’s opener “Alien Days” during Record Store Day, on limited edition cassette, because, yeah, sure, cassettes. The pop-dance-psych band “have begun assembling a variety of unique visual elements” for videos and live shows, courtesy of “video instrumentalist” Alejandro Crawford, Andrew Benson, Emilio Gomariz, Geoffrey Lillemon, and Chris Timms. “Your Life Is a Lie” will be the first music video release, with director Tom Kuntz at the controls.
MGMT are currently on tour and will head overseas this fall as well. More tour dates for this winter will be announced in July.
Here is the tracklist for “MGMT”:
Alien Days
Cool Song No. 2
Mystery Disease
Introspection
Your Life Is a Lie
A Good Sadness
Astro-Mancy
I Love You Too, Death
Plenty Of Girls In the Sea
An Orphan Of Fortune
North American Tour Dates:
July 3 Milwaukee, WI Summerfest/BMO Harris Bank
July 5-7 Kelowna, CA Keloha Music & Arts Festival
July 9 Quebec, ON Festival D”Ete International De Quebec
July 12 Lansing, MI Common Ground Music Festival
July 13 Cincinnati, OH Bunbury Music Festival
August 24 Monterey, CA Monterey County Fairgrounds
August 25 Los Angeles, CA FYF Festival
August 26 Las Vegas, NV The Pool at The Cosmopolitan
August 29 Davis, CA Mondavi Center
August 31 Bend, OR Les Schwab Amphitheatre
September 1 Troutdale, OR Edgefield Amphitheatre
September 2 Seattle, WA Bumbershoot Festival
September 4 Boise, ID Knitting Factory
September 5 Salt Lake City, UT Twilight Concert Series
September 6 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium
European Tour Dates (Guards supporting):
September 26 Cologne, Germany Live Music Hall
September 27 Brussels, Belgium AB
September 29 Stockholm, Sweden Cirkus
September 30 Oslo, Norway SentrumScene
October 1 Copenhagen, Denmark Vega Main Hall
October 3 Berlin, Germany Astra Kulturhaus
October 4 Vienna, Austria Gasometer
October 5 Munich, Germany Kesselhaus
October 6 Zurich, Switzerland Komplex 457
October 8 Paris, France Olympia
October 9 Hamburg, Germany Docks
October 10 Utrecht, Netherlands Vredenburg Leidsche
October 12 Glasgow, UK 02 ABC
October 13 Wolverhampton, UK Civic Hall
October 14 Manchester, UK O2 Apollo Manchester
October 16 London, UK Forum
October 19 Dublin, Ireland Olympia Theatre