MGMT have introduced their fifth studio album, Lack of Life, with a video for the brand new music “Mom Nature.” The album is due out February 23 by way of Mother+Pop. Try the music video for “Mom Nature” under.
Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser co-produced Lack of Life with Patrick Wimberly, and Dave Fridmann—who has had a hand in the entire band’s studio LPs—blended the brand new album. Lack of Life spans 10 tracks and features a collaboration with Christine and the Queens, marking the band’s first official characteristic on an MGMT album.
Jordan Fish directed the brand new animated “Mom Nature” video. In an announcement about his visible, he mentioned, “I hope the story makes folks joyful and really feel linked to household, buddies, and the animal kingdom as nicely.”
The band teased the brand new album final month when Andrew VanWyngarden posted a photograph of a take a look at urgent on a subreddit devoted to the band. The submit was accompanied by an image of a banana and the textual content “elf of soils,” an anagram for Lack of Life.
In a brand new assertion concerning the LP, VanWyngarden and Goldwasser mentioned, “All joking apart (by no means!), we’re very happy with this album and the truth that it was a comparatively painless start after a prolonged gestation interval, and are joyful to be releasing this child into the world with Mother+Pop.” They added, “Musically talking, we’re operating at round 20% grownup modern and not more than this, please.”
Lack of Life follows 2018’s Little Darkish Age and the non-album singles “Within the Afternoon” and “As You Transfer By the World.” Final 12 months, MGMT launched the archival stay album 11•11•11.
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Lack of Life:
01 Lack of Life (Half 2)
02 Mom Nature
03 Dancing in Babylon [ft. Christine and the Queens]
04 Individuals within the Streets
05 Bubblegum Canine
06 Nothing to Declare
07 Nothing Modifications
08 Phradie’s Music
09 I Want I Was Joking
10 Lack of Life
