Artist.......: MGMT
Album........: Live au Festival Rock en Seine
Label........: Sony BMG
Genre........: Alternative
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2009-12-24
Str.date.....: 2009-08-30
Quality......: 176kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.myspace.com/mgmt
track title time
1. Intro 1:25
2. Destrokk 4:16
3. Song For Dan Treacy 4:13
4. 4th Dimensional Transition 6:41
5. The Youth 3:40
6. Time To Pretend 4:55
7. Weekend Wars 5:04
8. POW 3:15
9. Electric Feel 5:01
10. Of Moons, Birds & Monsters 5:06
11. It's Working 4:34
12. Kids 6:11
Runtime 54:21
Size 68.54
Release Notes:
Performed : August 30, 2009 (France, Saint-Cloud)
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,
MGMT started as electroclash musical terrorists but
quickly transmogrified into an eclectic, brainy pop group
with heavy psychedelic overtones. MGMT first formed in
2002, during Ben Goldwasser and Andrew Van Wyngarden's
freshman year as art students at Wesleyan University in
Middletown, CT. At first the band was known as the
Management, and its shows consisted mostly of backing
tapes, synthesizers, and prerecorded vocals playing as
Goldwasser and Van Wyngarden engaged the audience in a
manner somewhere between performance art and good
old-fashioned punky hostility. By their senior year,
things had toned down considerably on-stage and the duo
was augmenting its live sound with backing musicians.
Upon graduating, MGMT released an electro-rock EP, Time to
Pretend, on the tiny indie Cantora Records in 2005. Good
reviews, especially for the title track, and extensive
touring brought the duo to the attention of British
producer Steve Lillywhite in his role as an A&R executive
for Columbia Records, which signed the band for a major
long-term deal in 2006. Regrouping in Brooklyn, the duo
enlisted producer Dave Fridmann to create the entirely
different-sounding Oracular Spectacular, a far more
musically expansive album that was released digitally in
late 2007 (a traditional CD release followed in January
2008). Additionally, MGMT served as Of Montreal's opening
act for their extensive 2007 tour, during which Van
Wyngarden and Of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes began
sketching out ideas for a new collaboration called Blikk
Fang.