Unless you were sleeping throughout the whole of 2008, there can be no denying that MGMT were one of 2008’s biggest acts. Their debut album 'Oracular Spectacular' won them an army of fans worldwide and their music was pumping out of every single car, house and club. Their popularity in Australia cannot be questioned, with the band having sold out their first ever tour here in the blink of an eye, and just a few weeks ago they solidified their presence with three songs predictably featuring in Triple J’s Hottest 100, two of them in the top 10.
After a solid year of plastering themselves onto the global wall, the nucleus of the group, Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, have now set their sights on album number two. Speaking with Rolling Stone magazine recently, they gave a hint at what direction it might take. “We’ve been listening to a lot of old Eighties stuff,” VanWyngarden told the magazine. “Some of that early Kraftwerk stuff is great. We are huge fans of those guys and the other early German electronic stuff. I think more of that stuff is going to find its way into our music.”
These comments follow the revelation made in September last year that they plan to work with the Chemical Brothers on their sophomore release. “We’ll experiment with them to create a different sound. But it won’t be dance music.”
We at Music Universe and one billion fans, can only sit and wait in anticipation for the follow-up in probably 2010.
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