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MGMT record “dark” second album
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 20 October 2009
MGMT’s second album, ‘Congratulations’, the follow-up to 2007’s ‘Oracular Spectacular’, will have a dark edge, the band’s Andrew Van Wyngarden told The San Francisco Examiner last week.
Of the album’s title track, he said: “The song ‘Congratulations’ itself is pretty dark. It’s us trying to deal with all the craziness that’s been going on since our last album took off. Sometimes it just doesn’t feel natural”.
He also said that the album, produced by Spacemen 3’s Peter Kember, featured guest vocals from Royal Trux’s Jennifer Herrema.
He also spoke a little about the duo’s previously reported legal battle with the French government, after President Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP party used their song ‘Kids’ in a video without permission. VanWyngarden said: “What made us decide to act was the fact that France was trying to pass this strict anti-piracy legislation at the same time that would punish illegal downloaders. It was pretty blatant of them to do that, so we tried to make a point of taking action”.
‘Congratulations’ is due for release in March 2010.
