MGMT - Late Night Tales: MGMT [Digipak] *

Artist:

MGMT

UPC:

5099967818129

Description:

Liner Note Author: Bill Brewster.
Photographers: Valerie Phillips; Dustin Yellin.
As a series, Late Night Tales is an interesting exercise. Asking musicians to make late-night mixes from their own collections, the series finds artists ranging from Jamiroquai to the Flaming Lips putting together their own mixtapes of quintessential after-hours jams, but on the MGMT installment, the series really knocks it out of the park. Featuring songs by artists like Television Personalities, Spacemen 3, and Suicide, the collection succeeds on a couple of levels, existing not only as a solid set of spacy, nocturnal songs, but also as a Rosetta Stone for MGMT`s own influences. Listening to the album almost feels like putting together a puzzle, with the finished product being their eclectic sophomore effort, Congratulations. And as if a collection of some of the moodiest, reverb-soaked post-punk to ever walk the earth wasn`t enough, the album also features MGMT performing a cover of Bauhaus` "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything," which manages to slot in nicely with the rest of the tracks here. Whether you`re coming for the MGMT track and staying for the history lesson, or coming for the track list and discovering MGMT, this entry into the Late Night Tales canon is a solid winner. ~ Gregory Heaney

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Can`t See Through It
2. Love You Girl
3. Cheree
4. Stop & Smell the Roses
5. Ocean
6. Red Indians
7. Laughing Boy
8. For Belgian Friends
9. Mound Of Clay
10. Song For Wilde
11. All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
12. Troubled Mind
13. Drug Song
14. Hearts Are Like Flowers
15. Pink Frost
16. Sparks
17. Melancholy Man
18. Lord Can You Hear Me?
19. Morning Splendour
20. Lost For Words Pt. 2
21. MGMT Late Night Tales Continuous Mix

Album Information

Release Date:

10/03/2011

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Subgenre:

Gothic

Label:

Late Night Tales

Catalog Number:

ALNCD 26

Original Release Year:

2011

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

77 : 14

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