Little Dark Age by MGMT

Little Dark Age, MGMT's fourth studio album, came out on Columbia on February 9, 2018, their first new music in more than four years and the last under their Columbia deal. After touring wrapped at the end of 2014, Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser spent most of 2015 away from it, then regrouped late in the year and came back with a sulky, shadowy pop record.

The duo produced it with Patrick Wimberly and longtime ally Dave Fridmann, and for the first time they opened up the songwriting, working with Wimberly, Ariel Pink and live-band member James Richardson. Sébastien Tellier and Connan Mockasin drop in too. The result is synth-pop and psychedelic electropop, gloomy and hooky at once. Critics heard a partial return to the pop instincts of Oracular Spectacular, and singles like the title track, "When You Die", "Hand It Over" and "Me and Michael" made the case.

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