From, The Management

oh em gee em tee

MGMT have come full circle in Australia from when they first largely slipped under the radar, despite Rolling Stone's listing them as an Artist To Watch in November of 2007.
At length, their flames of hype licked the highly combustible drought-stricken country, and consequently every other MySpace profile had Kids as its song up until a few months ago - then the band was deemed over-played, and whose fault is that? Yours, dick...sorry.

Last night saw the duo +3 make their penultimate appearance on the much-hyped Australian tour with the Melbourne leg at Festival Hall, backed by Australian band Tame Impala (Article at Cellophane Sunset ) and Luke Steele (The Sleepy Jackson and Empire of the Sun).
Van Wyngarden told Rolling Stone last year that when starting out, he and Ben Goldwasser "talked a lot about selling out as soon as possible." Predictably, - although this was meant in the context of easily marketable music - this was literally fulfilled as tickets sold out for all shows on the Australian tour within minutes, and boy, was it - okay, wait - hey now, yes, it was "something", allright.

That nigh tangible transition between the 'warm-up' atmosphere - whereby the audience are drowned out by the acid rock renaissance of Tame Impala, but talk through Luke Steele - and the hot, hot, sweaty, hot, crackly MGMT atmosphere, a collective scream then hushed whisperings, calm before a storm, then more screaming; a hot, hot, sweaty, hot storm, a dark undulating mass of perspiring people, lit by the beacons of phones and cameras - a night which saw Festival Hall's internal walls cold with condensed perspiration and its air hot and oppressive with a visible overhanging haze of sweat. It was something beautifully compelling, like a ...beautifully compelling sauna with music...or something less synonymous with what was just described.

So why not, in the "spirit" of "things", this is Immukization's Mash-up of LCD Soundsystem's All My Friends against MGMT's Kids, along with MGMT's Of Moons, Birds & Monsters, because the hype has returned to me once more.

All My Children - Immukization (removed - go to http://prettymuchamazing.com/mp3/spincoms-top-25-mgmt-remixes/ )

Of Moons, Birds & Monsters

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all for pushing technicoloured alter-ego envelopes; of Montreal

In related news, Van Wyngarden is known to have been collaborating with of Montreal's Kevin Barnes on a project called Blikk Fang. Watch out.

And in case you're not into them yet (say it isn't so), here are two songs by of Montreal, the first from their second latest album, Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? and the latter from the relatively recent Skeletal Lamping.
Don't place them in your head as being a footnote of MGMT; they are a powerful package of psychedellic, avant-garde, recently sexy (in the 1920's sense), electro-alternative cohesion, combined with the right-hand of a psychotic and quite attractive Muse, it doesn't matter which one.

Listen and buy at least Hissing Fauna, if not their entire body of work.

Sink The Seine

Wicked Wisdom (next track along in player)

OF MONTREAL ARE PLAYING AT THE HI-FI BAR IN MELBOURNE ON THE 5th OF MARCH TICKETS AVAILABLE AT MISSING LINK
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