Where is mgmt now

This reaction was to no fault of the band. These virtues were received tepidly at best. Worse still were the two moments where the band pulled from their current mid-period.

That track deserved to fizzle out upon arrival. To hear it in the resulting interviews since Oracular Spectacular , the duo immediately bored themselves with the style that made them popular.

Perhaps they should have chased their more experimental muse under a different moniker; the decision to keep at it under the MGMT banner came across as an obstinate effort to reclaim their brand back from the fans. Their new songs are vital, compelling works, yet in concert MGMT still feel like an entity imprisoned by their past. Just a little over a decade into their existence, MGMT are already treated as a legacy act running their course to dutifully let us remember an earlier, simpler time in our lives.

And we should be grateful! Reliving the past is one of the most enjoyable ways to spend the present. As an independent website, we rely on our measly advertising income to keep the lights on. But can they stop the self-sabotage? MGMT were huge. The duo graced with three festival classics: Time to Pretend provided them with a manifesto, Kids an anthem and Electric Feel a floorfiller. They were part of a group of acts, which included Yeasayer, Passion Pit and Santogold, who went from Brooklyn warehouse infamy to suddenly proper on-David-Letterman famous.

Along the way, they inspired a Gucci runway show and made hippy headbands a thing. Behind the scenes, however, the relationship between the two members was of complementary opposites: the analytical Ben Goldwasser and the free-spirited Andrew VanWyngarden. Now, after years of being out of sync, the oscillations of culture are again lining up with MGMT.

And, crucially, the frosty relationship between band and audience has thawed. The body language is not overly moist. But in an age where dance music seems to be the only leg that legacy indie bands have left to stand on see: Franz Ferdinand, Arcade Fire, Phoenix , MGMT are doing an especially fine job of juxtaposing infectious melodies with dark, biting subject matter.

But this kind of social critique is also nothing new for MGMT. Following its release, the band was invited to open a tour with Of Montreal. The band toured for two years in support of Oracular. For their self-titled release, the duo pushed even further into the psych rock fringes, favoring improvisation and indulgence over any sort of easily recognizable choruses and hooks.

When they returned home, neither were sure what the future held. Maybe this is the last hurrah.