Many new genres of music have been popping up these days. For example, what most of us would classify as house music might actually be: progressive, minimal, techno, trance, deephouse, tribal…Same for Rock, Alternative and Pop music. Artists these days are fusing all styles- making it hard to categorize music.
So, one cold Sunday night, I decided to fully change my musical playlist and made some interesting discoveries. A band that stuck out was MGMT, a dynamic duo from Brooklyn with something a quite exceptional. If you take one look at this oddball duo, you’d be forgiven for not knowing exactly what to think. They dress in 70s retro garb and paint weird shapes on their faces. But the opening track of their album: Time To Pretend, with it’s images of a hedonistic, idealistic and hippyish escape from the pressures of modern life, tells you exactly where they’re coming from. It is a given that, stoners worldwide will be lighting up whenever MGMT takes the stage.
Their song Electric Feel, with all its techno-swirls, loopy disco-patterns and the vocals become blissed-out, 70s soul harmonies. It’s absolutely brilliant and insanely catchy. Rapper Jim Jones even provided a remix, claiming it to be different and fresh. On a side note, it’s a great song to play on your i-pod when unable to sleep! It takes you to a warm, sunny and sexy place :P
MGMT is also in the top 10 most frequently played artists during the Spring/Summer 2009 Runway Shows: Dior RTW, Roberto Cavalli, Gucci (Men)…
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